Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity at Yale
We were highly gratified by the reaction on social media to yesterday’s post on the mindset – unfortunately widespread – that regards women as either sexual possessions or conquests. Our two examples were the man in Veracruz, Mexico who habitually padlocked his “girlfriend” into her jeans everyday, and the member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at Georgia Tech who wrote out for his less experienced frat brothers how to use alcohol and other means to get women, or “girls,” as he so artfully called them, to become “rapebait.” We were particularly pleased that so many women readers urged younger women to have the confidence and backbone to stand up for their own self-respect and dignity.
But lest you think this kind of treatment is confined to the rural Third World or Southern bastions of traditional male chauvinism, please recall the incident two years ago at one of our most esteemed institutions of higher learning.
