The Alpha Phi sorority at the University of Alabama put together a recruiting video. The apparent object of the video was to promote the idea that Alpha Phi girls are pretty, popular and fun. This is not a controversial political idea, except for feminists who hate pretty, popular girls having fun:
It’s a parade of white girls and blonde hair dye, coordinated clothing, bikinis and daisy dukes, glitter and kisses, bouncing bodies, euphoric hand-holding and hugging, gratuitous booty shots, and matching aviator sunglasses. It’s all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so Stepford Wives: College Edition. It’s all so . . . unempowering.
That column by A.L. Bailey resulted in a statement by the university condemning the video, which Alpha Phi took offline:
A video promoting the University of Alabama’s chapter of a largely white sorority has been taken down after being widely criticized online for its portrayal of women and for its lack of diversity. . . .
A statement from the school’s associate vice president for university relations, Deborah Lane, said that the video “is not reflective of UA’s expectations for student organizations to be responsible digital citizens.”
Dear God, has it gone this far? Has political correctness reached the point that it’s wrong for Alabama sorority girls to be pretty?
“Is this even America anymore?”
Feminism has gotten completely out of hand. You know damned well that if Alabama had a Muslim sorority where all the girls wore burqas, A.L. Bailey wouldn’t say a word. If Alabama had a pagan lesbian sorority, A.L. Bailey would never complain. But pretty white blonde girls having fun in daisy duke shorts? This is “objectifying”! This is not reflective of the university’s expectations: “No more fun of any kind!”
Morals fail, too, evidently.
Where do you get this ebook, Dan? I’m not seeing it on Amazon. Do you know?
I have dealt with that character a number of times…
http://thecampofthesaints.org/?s=Strelnikov
…but maybe it is, indeed, time to raise him again from the pages.
I am a Fallen Catholic.
As for this Pope, I find myself asking repeatedly: ‘Is the Pope Catholic?’ – the joke has become Real.
As I said, I’ve watched half of it; it was just what I said it would be before I watched it.
“No “girls gone wild”. Very tame actually.”
Oh! Pardon me! So the (ahem) ladies behave only mildly slutty — I don’t know, perhaps like tramps, rather than full-blown sluts?
“They are wrong in this case.”
Their “reasoning” is wrong; their “solution” is wrong; but they are not entirely wrong. But they are right on the point — they just don’t know how to get there rationally, nor how to object rationally.
But, regardless of them, I am not wrong: I make it a habit never to be wrong.
“WATCH the video. As a female, I see it as a very attractive recruitment tool for girls who want to be a part of a sorority.”
When I was in college, way back in the late 70s, deserved or not, “sorority girls” had a reputation as having easy virtue. This video rather say, “Well, sure, but so what?”
“In the days when Kim Kardashian’s ass is better known than she is, this sorority video is almost innocent.”
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And you make my point for me.
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Next year, when a new Kim Kardashian has pushed the envelope further, what will you be defending as “innocent”?
I see her “point” as being, “Well, sure, you’re right … which just goes to show how wrong you are”
As a man, I *scorn* people who “argue” on the basis of “As a [X], I have moral authority to over-rule you“
So, flaunt it while you’ve got it.
Waste your “prime years” in a vain attempt to display how “hot” you are — ’cause, as we all know, in just a few short years, no one will ever use that term of you — rather than making of yourself the sort of woman who doesn’t need to appeal the worst characteristics of men in order to (it she’s lucky) get men to do what she wants them to do.
Sounds like a real life-plan, to me.
And, yet, according to The One True Bureaucracy, the sensible *basis* of the joke is a category error.
Oh! I do know what you mean — there are just so many Catholics who are “insufficiently familiar with the Church’s social doctrine to accurately know what it does and does not contain”.
Though, does it really matter is many Catholics are “insufficiently familiar”? For, after all, The One True Bureaucracy is not a democracy — and Joe-in-the-Pew’s job is to shut-up and pay the bills.
I figured out when I was still I kid — Heinlein was a pervert.
I’m not at all “uncomfortable” with scantily clad people.
Nothing I say — ever! — is rooted in emotions.
Save your licentiousness for someone who doesn’t see through
it.
Well then, lest I get the animal rights SJWs riled up, EBL can have all the hay she wants and the activists can speak with her about too much salt in her diet themselves.
NFA: No Fun Allowed
They did before the decision to make the movie was made.
We do that here all the time. It’s really just a lot of fun.
The women of my acquaintance don’t color their hair for the fun of it.
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
— either George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde
The cover has been changed and the changes made it far better.
It’s not available yet.
When I was young, I knew a retired missionary at the church. She would tell the kids who would ask if their pets would be in heaven, “If it’s necessary for you to be happy, it’ll be there in heaven for you.”
So, it’s not to your taste. Fine.
But…can we just not behave as if someone having fun is a crime against humanity?
I am not actually shocked by your bigotry, but your narrow mind is showing.
According to his biography (I’m bogged down in Volume 2), he began as a one-world socialist, campaigned for Democrats in California during the 30’s, grew up and became more and more libertarian; he was passionately attached to the American ideal, particularly the parts where people were left alone to work out their own destinies with minimal interference.
The young women were certainly immodest. Alas, that’s par for the course in these days.
I haven’t had time for his biography, but find it passing strange he started out like that as a Naval Academy grad.
I would say not liking it is a form of discomfort. There’s nothing wrong with that either. I wouldn’t say you’re being pompous, but I know where you are coming from.
It’s complicated. At the time, the mid- to late-20’s, there was quite a lot of “one world” sentiment, and Heinlein had fellow midshipmen with similar views. Heinlein may have taken it further than many of his fellows – he strongly supported Sinclair Lewis’s run for governor and some other lunacies in the 30’s – but he did recover from it. I would emphasize that he never sympathized with Marxist Communism.
I hold with scripture being sufficient for doctrine. I am not one who automatically condemns something because it is unbiblical. If I did, I’d condemn Sunday School, and that would silly.
If something clashes with scripture, then that is something that must be rejected. Sunday School, for example, does not clash with scripture. Hagiolotry, Mariolotry being a special case, certainly does clash with scripture. The pattern for prayer is given by Jesus in what is often called the “Lord’s Prayer” (Pater Noster for you Roman Catholics out there). It was to be directed to the Father, not to Christ or the Holy Spirit, but the Father.
I would agree that there are Christians among the Roman Catholic membership. I’ve known some of them.
The Pope, however, is a much different case. There are far too many red flags flying. I have encouraged those I know to be Christian to get out of the RCC. Anyone that knows scripture, and reads the canons of Trent, knows why I would say such a thing.
As a man (and a father of 2 daughters) I agree that the young women are immodestly dressed. Such behavior sends the wrong message. Well done clip, but the behavior is less than I would want for my daughters.
My son was with me at the home a friend. We were having a conversation and my son interjected something. I looked at my friend who was in his late 50s at the times and said “youth is wasted on the young.” We both looked at my son and he looked back and forth at each of us and after a few seconds of consideration realized what we were saying said, “It’s not my fault” with a bit of desperation in his voice.
We then had a good laugh and my son relaxed very quickly.
Alas. The unspeakable Armenian seems to be slowly dropping off the cultural radar screens, however, and that ain’t all bad.
I do Whoppers myself.
Well yeah, but if a thing is going to be on Amazon, many times it’s there ahead, for either pre-order, or at least announcing the publication date. Amd I like to either pre-order or wish list it then, so
I don’t torget it.
Although I disagree, I like how you’re pushing the Overton window. If you can get people arguing about immodest attire, then condemnation of crass, reckless and immoral behavior will be more easily accepted.
I think you actually mean it, but I might do it sometime as a strategy. Thanks for giving me the idea.
Agreed, and I love that he got a foreword from @Nero, who is in many ways his complete opposite. But that post didn’t reiterate a description of what it was about.
It’s not even on the Castalia House store yet. Apparently the book has practically been writing itself, so he moved up the ebook release to coincide with the one-year anniversary of #GamerGate.
I never heard of this book but I will read it when it comes out. Thanks.
I’ll try to remember that you are not worth my time, Miss Crypro-leftist Hypocrite
I am none of the above.
That is suuuuch a good point. Right up there with, “If you don’t like abortion, then don’t have one”.
It’s less than *I* want for your daughters, and I don’t even know them.
Though, if you ever introduce me, I’ll be sure to let everyone know that they’re “hot”.
No, it’s not. for one thing, I am asking for a balanced view of a silly video, not taking a human life.
Proportion is also a classical virtue.
Think of it this way: I don’t see that video as particularly slutty, or trashy, just silly fun. I don’t dispute how you see it – far from it – but I do point out that young women enjoying being young and attractive may not make you happy, but it’s not a crime. Why rush to condemn? It’s not charitable.
On the surface, that is true, but even the business oriented right-leaning society requires a high degree of cooperation. Plus many conservatives support the safety net, though far smaller and far less taxing than the one the progressives have.
We all work in groups, whether it is hippy communes, freeholds, small communities, companies, etc. The key is not to let group solidarity substitute the individual, close friend, lover or family.
The bigger any group gets, the more it succumbs to the failings of human nature and either one person manipulates the whole group, or accountability goes out the window and corruption ensues. Groupthink results from either manipulation (in the case of Dear Leader) or the Bystander Effect (in the case of corruption) and perpetuates.
If some hippies want to live in a totally collectivized commune but has no desire to harm others, I am fine with that. The same is true if some people on the right create a business and are highly successful, but has no desire to influence elections or financially support any special interest.
Consent — and the right to refuse — is the major difference between authoritarianism and libertarianism.
He told of the changes in a later post.
It may be out with Castalia House first, then Amazon.
That should read “Nationalsozialistische AMERIKANISCHE Arbeiterspartei.”
Sorry, close but no cigar. No prize.
Ilion,
To what could you possibly object in the “Catholic Social Teaching” section of what you linked to? Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
James G