UPenn Frat Bro Sends A Raunchy Poem To Freshman Girls Telling Them To Wear Tight Clothes and Come Drink...BIG MISTAKE
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BFNews - A group of about 15 students at the University of Pennsylvania plastered hundreds of fliers on campus in protest of an email that went out to several female freshmen.
The August 31 email, which was sent to an undisclosed list of recipients with “Wild Wednesday” as the subject line, was addressed to “ladies.”
The email, written in the format of a poem, invited women to a party and encouraged them to drink Natty Light and to “please wear something tight.”
It is unclear how many freshmen received the invitation for the party to be held Wednesday night at the OZ house — an off-campus fraternity, which is not recognized by the university.
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Writing a poem to freshman girls telling them to wear tight clothes and come over to drink underage and sending it over public college email in the year 2016…
The fuck did you think was going to happen you stupid idiot? Do you live under a rock? Do you have Wifi? Have you not seen this same story play itself out over and over and over again on the internet for the past like 5 years?
Amanda Silberling, a UPenn junior, and some of her friends saw the email and discussed how they believe it perpetuated rape culture and exemplified how women on campus are often treated.
Together, they decided to collectively take action by designing, printing, and distributing flyers around campus.
Silberling and her friends distributed approximately 600 flyers of the email with the phrase “this is what rape culture looks like” printed over it, across the Philadelphia campus Monday night. On Tuesday, the students plastered more flyers on campus, including on the school’s iconic ‘LOVE’ sign.
Silberling told BuzzFeed News she wants to keep the conversation sparked by this email — which was first reported by The Daily Pennsylvanian, UPenn’s student newspaper — alive.
“The email wasn’t an isolated incident,” she said. “We want to try to keep printing more flyers with other instances that show how rape culture is normalized on campus.”
Obviously. If you didn’t predict this exact thing to happen including the eventual upcoming crackdown on your off-campus house, you deserve everything that happens to you.
In an email statement, the university condemned the email and praised the students for the flyers.
“The text of the email was offensive and has no place at Penn,” the statement read. “As the University has made clear in its policies and protocols, sexual harassment and sexual assault are unacceptable and will not be tolerated on campus. Challenging offensive speech, as these students did, is important and wholly consistent with the University’s ongoing efforts and the national conversation about preventing and responding to sexual misconduct.”
20 year old kids sending stuff about drinking and partying and being slutty to 18 year old college girls has happened every semester, every year at every college, forever. Not sure that all of a sudden makes you a sexual predator, but I do know feminists and the internet think it does, so unless you like the shitstorm, probably best to chill out with the poetry.
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Spin zone – thanks for paying out of pocket to print a billion fliers and post them all over campus to promote our party! The pledges appreciated their night off.