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Lesbian Harassment in College? Lawsuit Alleges ‘Sexually Charged’ Hazing

Posted on | May 21, 2015 | 62 Comments

Earlier this month, St. Joseph’s University announced it had suspended its women’s softball program after “a parent and student came forward in late March, alleging freshman had been forced to drink alcohol and engage in sexual conduct when they joined the team in the fall.” Four players were suspended in April after reports of what Philadelphia ABC affiliate WPVI-TV called “allegations too graphic to be outlined.” Now a former player has filed a federal lawsuit:

A former softball player at St. Joseph’s University claims in a lawsuit that she endured sexually charged hazing so bad that she contemplated suicide and was forced to quit the team.
The federal lawsuit by the unidentified plaintiff against the university and softball coach Terri Adams alleges “a widespread and well-known culture of abusive and sexually charged hazing” on the team.
The plaintiff alleges that during a weeklong hazing period in 2013, the player was subjected to demeaning behavior such as being forced to perform a sexually lewd dance, to ask and answer sexual questions and tell sexual stories. She alleges that she saw other freshman players forced to simulate sex acts. . . .
The lawsuit alleges that throughout her freshman year and continuing into her sophomore year, she was given demeaning nicknames, harassed and belittled and was “often reduced to tears and began having suicidal thoughts.” She said she was eventually forced to quit the team.
The suit alleges that officials were aware of the activities and intimidated and threatened her for trying to draw attention to them.

(Hat tip: Lead and Gold on Twitter.)

Anybody who knows anything about women’s collegiate sports knows how prevalent lesbianism is among female varsity athletes. So the “culture of abusive and sexually charge hazing” was lesbian hazing, and the “sex acts” players were “forced to simulate” were lesbian sex acts and, while I haven’t seen the full complaint yet, it is entirely reasonable for the reader to assume that the upperclassmen who led the hazing were lesbians, and that the team’s coach is also a lesbian. Yet the word “lesbian” appears nowhere in any of the media coverage of these allegations, because it would be considered homophobic to mention it. Because facts are now hate, you see.

No one in the media dares even suggest the nature of the psychological brutality allegedly inflicted on this girl “subjected to demeaning behavior” and driven to the brink of suicide because, perhaps, she didn’t conform to the “well-known culture” enforced by her lesbian teammates.

This happened at Saint Joseph’s University, a private Catholic school where annual tuition is $40,580. Does anyone imagine that the pious Catholics who founded Saint Joseph’s in 1851 could have imagined such a thing? Or do you suppose that the alumni whose contributions help support this university are aware of what is being taught to Saint Joseph’s students today? The Gender Studies program at the university requires all students minoring in the subject to take “Seminar in Feminist Theories,” and here is the course description:

GEN 200 Seminar in Feminist Theories
This course provides a survey of feminist frameworks for thinking about sex, gender and oppression. The course begins with a consideration of whether the distinction between gender and sex is tenable, what it means to say that a category is socially constructed and how socially constructed categories can be oppressive. Given women’s diversity, the latter part of the course considers critiques of attempts to provide a single systematic feminist framework. This will lead us to rethink the project of feminist theory and consider its possible new directions.

In other words, this is a crash course in feminist gender theory — ” the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix — and every student who pursues a minor in Gender Studies at Saint Joseph’s is required to take this class. The Pope has specifically condemned “gender theory,” and yet it is being promulgated at a Catholic university where lesbian softball players allegedly harassed a teammate so severely that she contemplated suicide and quit the team.

This is what “gender equality” means in 2015.

Gosh, somebody really ought to write a book about this . . .

 

UPDATE: Thanks to Stephen Sheiko on Twitter for sending the link to the full federal complaint in Jane Doe v. Saint Joseph’s University, which is an absolutely horrifying document to read. Coach Terri Adams began recruiting this player while the girl was just a sophomore in high school, and repeatedly assured the girl and her parents what a “wholesome” family-oriented Catholic environment SJU provided. The hazing included a letter to freshmen players that made explicit reference to same-sex activity and yet — here’s your kick-in-the-head irony — the plaintiff says that she was later subjected to gaybaiting!

Members of the team told the girl she was a lesbian and should “come out” as such, despite the allegedly “wholesome” Catholic atmosphere that Coach Adams had promised. You will notice that the lawsuit references assistant coach Brooke Darreff, who graduated from SJU in 2010 and returned to the university in 2012 as a graduate student to help coach the softball team. What was Coach Darreff’s major? Psychology.

Anybody want to convince me that a 27-year-old psychology graduate student doesn’t know what this kind of sexualized torture of teenage girls is intended to accomplish? Bullshit.





 

Category: Crime, Education, Gays, Media Bias, Sex, Sex Trouble, Sports

Comments

62 Responses to “Lesbian Harassment in College? Lawsuit Alleges ‘Sexually Charged’ Hazing”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 21st, 2015 @ 8:04 am

    That sounds like hardball. Certainly some highballs.

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  3. texlovera
    May 21st, 2015 @ 8:45 am

    Lesbian rapists???

    LESBIAN RAPISTS???

    I, I,….. just CAN’T believe it!!!

    (sobs, collapses on keyboard)

  4. Dana
    May 21st, 2015 @ 8:57 am

    Our esteemed host wrote:

    Anybody who knows anything about women’s collegiate sports knows how prevalent lesbianism is among female varsity athletes. So the “culture of abusive and sexually charge hazing” was lesbian hazing, and the “sex acts” players were “forced to simulate” were lesbian sex acts and, while I haven’t seen the full complaint yet, it is entirely reasonable for the reader to assume that the upperclassmen who led the hazing were lesbians, and that the team’s coach is also a lesbian.

    I see no reason to assume that Terri Adams, the softball head coach is a lesbian!

    http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/stjs/sports/w-softbl/auto_headshot/2663436.jpeg

    Nevertheless, I’d assume that Assistant Coach Gary Falasca isn’t a lesbian. 🙂

    Nevertheless, some not-too-dissimilar hazing occurs in very heterosexual sororities.

  5. Matt_SE
    May 21st, 2015 @ 10:13 am

    The heads of these programs are often sexual predators, because they get off on the power involved. They are everything they claim predatory men are.
    Institutionalized power, psychological manipulation. These are the tools of the lesbian predator.

  6. Matt_SE
    May 21st, 2015 @ 10:15 am

    How do you know “Gary” doesn’t have XX chromosomes?

  7. Nan
    May 21st, 2015 @ 10:27 am

    OH, you need a safe space! Kittens, bubbles and cotton candy, stat!

  8. Fail Burton
    May 21st, 2015 @ 10:43 am

    Probably few people know about the small but intense national culture of the reboot of roller derby as a flat track sport with a very heavy lesbian presence. They are some wild partying and hard-drinking folks. I don’t know they’re any different from a lot of men. I think we’re getting into some territory where we don’t want to confuse a demography with an ideology. Whatever one thinks of it, gay folks are part of the scenery and always have been. Being against them is like being against trees or rivers. Best treat them as humans like anyone else and save the spittle for the hard-charging wackos of radical feminism. It’s not gays or women per se going nuts over Game of Thrones but people who are genuinely nuts because of their insane ideology.

  9. robertstacymccain
    May 21st, 2015 @ 10:59 am

    I think we’re getting into some territory where we don’t want to confuse a demography with an ideology.

    As I have said in other contexts, “Bad causes attract bad people.” This was true of the Occupy movement, it was true of the “Free Kate” crusade and it is true of the climate being created on university campuses by the militant feminist “rape culture” hysteria. When there is any type of protest movement that advocates what most people would consider radical ideas, the movement will inevitably attract the disgruntled, the alienated, the mentally ill and other people who could be said to have an antisocial personality. People like that are often sexual deviants, and some of them will have tendencies toward criminal violence. Unless the movement’s leadership is committed to carefully monitoring the participants — and progressive “grassroots” activists seldom do this — it can be predicted that the movement will be afflicted with aberrant behavior.

    Anyone who pays attention to what’s going on in academia nowadays can understand that a scandal like the one at Saint Joseph’s is just the tip of a large iceberg of sexually deviant behavior that seldom makes headlines because it would be homophobic to call female/female harassment as what it is.

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  11. Zeb Quinn
    May 21st, 2015 @ 11:40 am

    Yes, throughout the history of western civilization we’ve always had roving gangs of raping lesbians, and it is incumbent upon us to nonjudgmentally accept and embrace them with open arms as our sisters.

  12. Lulu
    May 21st, 2015 @ 11:40 am

    Hasn’t it long been reported that this stuff is going on in the women’s basketball programs across the country?

  13. M. Thompson
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:07 pm

    (Redacted cursing, to avoid religious slurs).

    I don’t understand the need to degenerate others. There’s a HUGE difference between raging on people for reasons (small embarrassing mistakes for a FNG) and this kind of out to make their lives miserable and demonstrate power. Guess it’s why I’m not much of a team player.

  14. texlovera
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:19 pm

    I’VE BEEN AGGRESSIVELY MICROED!! Or something like that…

  15. Jeanette Victoria
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:24 pm

    My My lesbian harassment sure has gotten bolder these days. Yes I had a few lesbain harass me at my place of employment but it was NEVER EVER this bad

  16. Nan
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:28 pm

    The only party I’ve gone to since college that was busted by the cops was a rollergirl party. I was at an art gallery and someone invited me. Yes, a lesbian. But most of the rollergirls I know are married…to a man!

  17. Nan
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:31 pm

    Once they Free Kate do they plan to Occupy Kate?

  18. ExJ
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:39 pm

    I think you mean ‘denigrate’. You can’t degenerate others.

  19. Matthew W
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:40 pm

    “FUPA”
    Thanks, did not need to know that.

  20. Matthew W
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:42 pm

    Not sure I want to even try to picture what/how a lesbian rape would be

  21. Matthew W
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:43 pm

    Not that the picture screams “Rosie O’Donnell Bull Dyke”

  22. M. Thompson
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:46 pm

    It happens.

  23. Lamprotatia
    May 21st, 2015 @ 12:49 pm

    The Church needs to either start seriously cleaning house in these colleges, or shutting them down and investing the money elsewhere.

  24. DeadMessenger
    May 21st, 2015 @ 1:07 pm

    I know, right? Wish I could unread that.

  25. DeadMessenger
    May 21st, 2015 @ 1:09 pm

    Agree wholeheartedly. If they’re unwilling to enforce godliness at a Church school, why bother having them? Starting with the administrators and faculty, on down.

  26. Quartermaster
    May 21st, 2015 @ 1:41 pm

    He’s prolly a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. Shame on you for engaging in gender stereotypes.

  27. Gunga
    May 21st, 2015 @ 1:59 pm

    Yeah…that was more than enough to convince me not to read the complaint…the horror…the horror…

  28. RS
    May 21st, 2015 @ 2:07 pm

    I feel for this girls parents. i would appear they were trying to do the right thing and were at least tacitly aware of the reputation of women’s softball. And the same holds true for Division I & II women’s college sports. My evidence is anecdotal but I know a number of young women whose parents spent bundles traveling with select and AAU teams so that their daughters could get that coveted athletic scholarship who wound up quitting their teams and foregoing the scholarships because of the “atmosphere” within their programs.

    It would be interesting to see the correlation between the number of these sorts of incidents and Title IX’s requirement that colleges taking federal money increase funding for women’s sports, funding used to hire coaches who could run programs with little supervision because college administrators were afraid of federal backlash.

  29. Matt_SE
    May 21st, 2015 @ 2:34 pm

    Several times a day, assuming she’s not too old by then. There’s a shelf life on tenderoni.

  30. Matt_SE
    May 21st, 2015 @ 2:37 pm

    Uh, no. It’s barely reported.

  31. M. Thompson
    May 21st, 2015 @ 2:45 pm

    I’ve heard that before.

    Talking to guys about Bremeloes. Never again.

  32. InRussetShadows
    May 21st, 2015 @ 2:59 pm

    Yes. I suspect that you are right, and Title IX money is in effect lesbo recruitment cash.

  33. Dana
    May 21st, 2015 @ 3:03 pm

    You’re quite right, and I hereby denounce myself.

  34. Dana
    May 21st, 2015 @ 3:04 pm

    Because, it would be homophobic, don’t you know, with the coach and the program being singled out due to alleged carpet munching.

  35. Prime Director
    May 21st, 2015 @ 3:10 pm

    Its Chunk from The Goonies

  36. Matthew T. Mason
    May 21st, 2015 @ 3:22 pm

    This is just sick.

  37. Prime Director
    May 21st, 2015 @ 4:42 pm

    Whatever one thinks of it, gay folks are part of the scenery and always have been. Being against them is like being against trees or rivers.

    Tolerence is key.

    I tolerate Dr. Pepper, for example.

    I don’t boycott stores or restaurants or media that advertises or sells Dr. Pepper. I don’t mau-mau consumers of Dr. Pepper, either. The fact that others may like something that makes me vomit acid-blood does not entitle me to take this awful thing away from them.

    But neither am I under any obligation to be a pitch-man for a product I for which I do not care. Dr. Pepper is gross. I do not endorse it. [I endorse (unpaid, natch) those glass bottled Coca-Colas from Mexico. Made with real sugar.]

    So homosexuality is, in one sense, just another “product,” an option in the social/cultural market place . It has the potential to be EITHER a winner or a loser depending upon how closely it aligns with the preferences of the target demo.

    But realistically, most folks just ain’t buyin’ it.

  38. Daniel Freeman
    May 21st, 2015 @ 5:19 pm

    I guess it stands to reason that if you accept the premise that female heterosexuality is socially constructed by a heteronormative patriarchy, then lesbianism could be socially constructed by a homonormative matriarchy. And it sounds like that’s what they were trying to do to her.

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  40. Lamprotatia
    May 21st, 2015 @ 5:44 pm

    I have never played softball, but from what I saw from the outside in high school and college, I wouldn’t be surprised if that particular environment has been pretty bad for a while, now. Women’s hoops, too.

    There was a mannish teacher at my high school who had a reputation for hitting on female students and taking on specific ones (of a specific ethnic and physical “type,” always) as a “protege.” An older girl warned me as a freshman not to sit in her front row if I was wearing a v-neck. It was odd back then because there was a tension between the pervy teacher still needing to keep it on the down-low, and the humiliated students needing to keep hushed up to avoid being labeled homophobes by the rather flighty administration. That was the early 90s and in retrospect the tension came from a shift from the old way to the new way. It looks like the shift has now completed. I will bet you money that there’s already a smear campaign being run against the girl who has brought this lawsuit, claiming she’s a homophobe with a vivid imagination.

  41. Chris Smith
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:21 pm

    It’s similar to “Muffin Top”.

  42. Fail Burton
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:34 pm

    But at the same time they claim if you do that in reverse it’s bigotry. Even the Orwellian Judith Butler took note of that.

  43. Fail Burton
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:36 pm

    I agree. Live and let live is one thing, asking me to jump on board with male to female fantasies another.

  44. Fail Burton
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:37 pm

    Well, I don’t have any percentages but it’s safe to say it’s blisteringly higher than in the general population.

  45. Fail Burton
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:38 pm

    If they’re not supremacist ideologues then they default to mere criminals and yes, we have always had criminals.

  46. Matthew W
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:40 pm

    I always thought it was what Greek people shouted when drinking ouzo

  47. Fail Burton
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:40 pm

    It’s true there is ideological cover for these people that amounts to a double standard for criminal acts. I was talking about the general behavior. It is merely criminal. Prosecute it as such if they want true equality.

  48. Fail Burton
    May 21st, 2015 @ 6:43 pm

    There is no safe space from dementia. I was reading about a guy turned girl who claims they witnessed the rape of a man by a woman around the WisCon feminist SF convention. The problem is you don’t know what the hell anyone is. When they’re leading off with “my pronouns are they/them” the only thing you can be sure of is they’re nuts.

  49. Jeanette Victoria
    May 21st, 2015 @ 8:11 pm

    I had no clue there was such a thing of men “knowing” men and women “knowing” women until I was 16 and some damn (Lesbian pervert) HS senior explained it all to me and tried to convince me it was the cool thing to do. I wasn’t convinced and was mostly grossed out.

  50. trangbang68
    May 21st, 2015 @ 8:51 pm

    gay, tranny, skankiness, etc…the common denominator is the rejection of our Judeo-Christian heritage and the embrace of amoral nihilism. It’s Chesterton’s quip, “the problem when men quit believing in God is not that they believe in nothing, but that they believe in anything” or Dostoevsky’s quote in one of his novels “God is dead, everything is permitted”
    We are collapsing into a moral squalor I don’t think any of us can really fathom it’s utter wretchedness. God help us.