"Rapebait" Frat disbanded for promoting sexual violence.

[sufrommich]

After the email blew up the internet, Peterson offered a sincere-sounding mea culpa, saying that "rapebait" was a nickname his frat bros had given him and that joking about sexual assault is very, very wrong indeed. Georgia Tech put ΦKT on probation. Lesson learned, right?

Not really. According to GT's Technique, Peterson and his ilk carried right on acting like toddlers pumped full of testosterone after the incident last October, and after an investigation, the school's administration concluded that Phi Kappa Tau engaged in a "pattern of sexual violence that…suggests a deep-rooted culture within the fraternity that is obscene, indecent and endangers women" in addition to providing alcohol to underaged members, like, constantly (in their defense, isn't that kind of what every frat does w/r/t alcohol?) Included in the school's investigation were actual minutes from fraternity meetings and emails circulated around the frat, which included beaucoup imbibing and joking references to drug and alcohol abuse and rape.

But there was also plenty of anti-woman stuff in Phi Kappa Tau's culture. Here, for example, are the lyrics to a song that pledges were made to sing both during pledge week and at the frat's Christmas party (which was the most depressing party in the world, probably). Georgia Tech got hold of these because the boy geniuses at Phi Kappa Tau sent all of this over email, thus leaving an easy to follow digital trail for school officials.


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I'm not going to show the "jovial" rape songs they sang together,but it's seriously fucked up. Rape culture sucks.

TRIGGER WARNING:THERE ARE SONGS PERTAINING TO RAPE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE ARTICLE.

[MineralMan]

1. Expel the lot of those assholes.

Shut down the frat house and turn the building into a women's shelter, and make the national fraternity pay for all of the costs.

Enough of this crap!

[sufrommich]

2. That is a great idea. nt

[Half-Century Man]

26. Can the degrees of the graduates for the last ten years be rescinded?

The current generation is a legacy of the older generations.

[MineralMan]

29. I don't know if there's a mechanism that would allow that,

but I'd be in favor of it.

I don't like frats, in general, as you might be able to guess.

[Half-Century Man]

32. Any "good old boys" network is inherently flawed.

They can do good, but too many examples of bad behavior exist to give any of them a free pass.

[Dorian Gray]

27. That sounds

about exactly what SHOULD happen. I won't hold my breath for it to actually happen, though.

[MineralMan]

30. Well, the national organization has pulled their charter.

I learned that on its website. That's something. But, it may be that the other chapters are doing similar things, but haven't been outed for it yet.

[Dorian Gray]

31. Good first step

[riqster]

3. It's a good first step. But not enough.

The perps need to suffer some sort of shame, pain, and humiliation: something that fucks their shit up to a sufficient degree that they are forced to look at themselves and realize what scum the lot of them are.

Otherwise, they will still be potential or actual sexual predators and violent criminals.

[sufrommich]

4. My guess is that this is the schools way of

washing their hands of it. Under the rug it goes.

[riqster]

12. My take as well.

Which is why it's not enough.

[CrispyQ]

5. The song is some of the most disgusting filth I've ever read.

Shame on any college that knows about stuff like this & doesn't do anything about it.

[sufrommich]

6. That's way I didn't post them.

Horrific and beyond sick.

[deutsey]

18. Precisely. These aren't bawdy or even nasty, off-color songs

They're sick. I had no idea sociopaths had their own frat.

[cui bono]

20. So sick. Only a deranged psychopath could have come up with that.

Anyone who would willingly sing that needs serious help.

[sufrommich]

22. Not only sing it,but go on to join that frat! nt

[undeterred]

7. I would like to see the names of those frat boys listed online

where they cannot be deleted so that every potential employer and every potential girlfriend they ever have can see what kind of evil they thought was fun in their college years.

[CrispyQ]

10. This.

They are so into shaming. They need to be shamed.

[Half-Century Man]

28. Sexual predators list? under Dishonorable mention.

[Ohio Joe]

8. I wonder how long till it's claimed that even this does not indicate rape culture...

You know... 'It's just frat boys having fun'... 'It's an isolated incident'... 'Hey, eventually something was done'... And on and on...

We all know the denial and excuses will come.

[sufrommich]

9. I don't know,but I'm wondering if I should add

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a trigger warning because of the songs included in the article? I think I will.

[Ohio Joe]

11. I think that would be a good idea...

It's not just shocking... It's outright murderous.

[sufrommich]

14. I added a warning. nt

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R

[arcane1]

15. Wow, those lyrics are far, far, FAR worse than I expected.

I made it about halfway through and had to stop

[sufrommich]

17. I know. I caution DUers to take the

trigger warning seriously.

[arcane1]

19. I was expecting something raunchy and crude

But that's some psycho shit that would creep out de Sade himself!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. DU Rec

[a la izquierda]

21. Good lord! I feel like I need a shower...

[cui bono]

23. While disbanding the frat is a good thing, what they really need to do is have mandatory

counseling workshops for these young men to - I was going to say teach them but I think it's already at the point of rehabilitating them - rehabilitate them and teach them what a healthy relationship is and that women are people. Like an anger management class but much more than that.

It's at the point where every campus should have a mandatory class on this sort of thing to be taken the first year, preferably the first quarter/semester.

Who raises people like this???

[Blue_Tires]

24. Good to see universities are finally stepping up and revoking charters

after awhile the usual suspension+apology doesn't cut it anymore....

[Maedhros]

25. Having been part of the greek system at my university, I can attest that nearly every fraternity

has songs like that. Sororities also. They are an exercise in offensiveness for offensiveness' sake, sort of like lowbrow juvenile misogynistic performance art. College-aged people often lack the awareness to realize exactly how crass they are.

The culture that creates this kind of insensitivity needs to be eliminated. Over time, I think it will be, but old cultures die hard.

[exboyfil]

33. My daughter received a postcard about Greek

Day (recruiting effort) for the school she will be attending in August. We promptly threw it in the circular file.

What happened when a notorious fraternity was finally closed down on campus at our other large university was that they just moved off campus and retained the living arrangement. I suspect the same will happen in this case.

[sufrommich]

34. I have a hard time believing that every fraternity

has songs like that and an even harder time imagining there are sororities gleefully singing songs about rape. Did you see the songs in the article? They're psychotic.

[Maedhros]

35. I'm not proud of it, and deserve any lumps I take for it,

but we sang songs just as bad. During Rush Week I visited nearly every fraternity on campus and, while I can't assert that every single one also had similar material in their repertoire, nearly all of them did. This was in the 80's during Ronnie's "Morning in America", so hopefully that kind of shit has diminished over time.

Granted, the sorority songs were more "bawdy" than rape-themed, but were still a bit squirm-inducing.

Maybe my campus was an exception?

[sufrommich]

36. I hope things have changed since the 80s. Yeah, Reagan's

"Morning in America" was practically an invitation to be an as whole.I hated the 80s.