Friday, January 25, 2008

Yale Hijinks Scowled at

We read:

"Members of the Yale Women's Center board threatened to initiate legal action Sunday after discovering a photograph posted on Facebook.com depicting 12 Yale students affiliated with the Zeta Psi fraternity posing in front of the Center with a sign reading "We Love Yale Sluts."

The picture made its rounds through e-mail inboxes around Yale's campus Sunday night, enraging some members of the University community offended by what they perceived to be its misogynistic overtones. The men photographed in front of the Women's Center are Zeta Psi "pledges" - students attempting to join the fraternity. The photo was removed from Facebook.com later Sunday night.

The Women's Center board is contemplating legal action against the fraternity, the University and the individuals in the photograph on grounds of sexual harassment and defamation, said Chase Olivarius-McAllister '09, the Center's former political-action coordinator.

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It seems to me that this probably drunken behavior was not much different to the way black males routinely refer to women as "Hos" -- and that seems to get a pass. And male students taking a picture, not of any women, but of themselves, is "harassing" women?