I think we feel like in a society that is currently trying to knock males, especially Said that fraternities encourage sexually explicit commentary because social standing is tied to sexual prowess.Ī TFM member said commenting on women on the site served as “one of the things guys can do that separates them from the girls. Thinks like a sociopath, then you’re going to be more right than wrong.”įraternity men offered more nuanced, social explanations for their behavior. One fraternity man told me that fraternities seem to produce more extreme behavior because men do not want to disappoint their brothers. Another If you make it a rule to assume that a guy under about 25 probably Very clear most young men have vastly underdeveloped empathy, compassion, and other higher order thinking capabilities as compared to women their age. I don’t mean that literally of course, but the developmental psych evidence is “Young guys are basically animals that can talk. “Of course frat guys talk like that,” Max told me via email. Wrote bestsellers chronicling his drunken hookups and is credited with creating the “fratire” literary genre. Much less exaggerated and embellished in real life.” But one of the widest-read authorities on heterosexual masculine hookup culture disagreed: Tucker Max , who Only to other men, they were less crass in person than TFM comments implied. A TFM commenter told me, “I do think the vibe and attitude is not far off from how fraternity guys actually talk, but it’s I asked fraternity men who posted on the site and fraternity men I knew socially whether fraternity men really talk this way in person. They mostly agreed that while men were much cruder when talking The most frequently mentioned body part is “ass” (outnumbering “smile” 25-to-1, and “eyes” 10-to-1), followed by “tits.” “Face” comes in third. Someone tell Kelly that I’ve seen her butt, and I’ll pee there as soon as I can….Would, but there’s no way I’m letting her spend the night.Dear Santa, I can explain… My dad wasn’t around much.She looks like her life will consist of manicures, attending her children’s equestrian events, and country club fundraiser dinner parties.There’s just something about those knee-high socks that screams ‘I do anal’.Wins approval on the site, here are some of the most up-voted comments on women’s pictures: And many TFM commenters are fraternity members as one told me, the site’s jokes are “geared towards those in reek life.” To give you a taste of what While TFM does not provide a perfect representative sample of fraternity members (non-affiliated users may also comment on the site), it does grant a far larger sample than a news story about a sexual assault at oneįraternity chapter. Section posts pictures of women for users to comment on, and I analyzed its more than 16,000 comments. To investigate, I turned to a website that claims to capture fraternity culture: Total Frat Move (TFM), which receives 8 million monthly visits, according to a site administrator. This makes you wonder just how fraternity men talk about women. Joining even when controlling for factors like prior history of assault and alcohol use. There are numerous allegations of sexism against fraternities,Īnd studies show men who join are far more likely to commit assault after In the gender-segregated world of college fraternities, sexist rhetoric isn’t exactly astonishing. Credit William Widmer for The New York Times
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