Frat Free Friday
An email has been circulating among the women on campus declaring tonight a "Frat Free Friday." The idea is that if women avoid the frats in massive numbers tonight, we can demonstrate in a very tangible way that we are integral to the social scene on campus and should be treated better if they want us to stick around. It's a demand for respect, and a signal that women who do choose normally to participate in the frat scene are aware of and concerned about the problematic gender relations facilitated by such a system.
Please spread the word, and may there be many more frat free fridays.
**note: the frats targeted by this boycott do not include co-ed houses or affinity houses.
Please spread the word, and may there be many more frat free fridays.
**note: the frats targeted by this boycott do not include co-ed houses or affinity houses.
posted by anne at 1:13 PM Permalink
3 Comments:
I don't understand the goal of the "Frat Free Friday" - is it (1) to start a periodic boycott of fraternities on Friday evenings so that (a) men improve their treatment women or (b) men realize that women are not happy with the way they're being treated in frats, or (2) to raise awareness of that fact that women are not happy in frats so that men change they're behavior. It's somewhat confusing.
Regardless, its puts frats on the defensive - by boycotting ALL frats indiscrimately women are implicitly assigning blame for the poor treatment of women to each fraternity equally. That's not right - conceivable there are some frats that really are worse than others. Why not boycott those frats in particular? I assume that its because girls have friends in particular frats and that to single out one frat would be problematic. Still, the boycott seems to be a boycott of the entire greek system. But it seems to miss the point that the system has a face, that students who partake in greek activities are not bad people. This is not a civil rights issue - no one is being systematically oppressed. Instead, its really a group of socially marginalized individuals who are angry that several acts of sexual assault, which is deplorable, takes place at fraternities. But fraternities are value neutral, the people in the fraternities are not.
I'm probably rambling at this point but still, I'm uncomfortable with this boycott idea.
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