Men’s-Only Harvard Club Says Barring Women Protects Them From Inevitable: Getting Raped

[Triana]

A secretive men’s-only club at Harvard this week broke its decades-long silence to explain its gender policy: Women shouldn’t be allowed in for a myriad of reasons aside from not having a penis, chief among them that they might be sexually assaulted by one of the club’s members.

The comments apparently came in response to the university’s efforts to make the school’s so-called “final clubs” coed. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is in favor of that, including the 225-year-old Porcellian Club, which counts luminaries like President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and, more recently, the Winklevoss twins among its illustrious alumni.

As part of its efforts to integrate the clubs, the school this month made public data indicating that female Harvard seniors who participated in final clubs, as members or as guests, were more likely to experience “nonconsensual sexual contact.”

Speaking on behalf of the Porcellian Club, officer Charles M. Storey protests the idea of admitting women by pointing out that their inclusion could only lead to more sexual assault.

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[daleanime]

1. Sounds like a damn good reason.....

to break these "clubs" up.

[In_The_Wind]

2. So, in essence, he is saying members of the Porcellian Club are potential rapist.

[Iggo]

3. Yep, that's what he's saying.

Amazing, ain't it.

[In_The_Wind]

6. A better solution is close the club. That would send a clear message Rape Is Unacceptable.

Even at Harvard.

[Iggo]

8. If they can't allow women in because they might get raped, closing the club is the best option.

Because they don't hate women.

Right?

[Shrike47]

4. Makes sense to me. It would be even safer if woman stayed home and covered themselves.

Never go out without a male family member as an escort. You know the drill...


So what he's saying is that club members have no self-control and no standards. Great.

[Iggo]

5. And if you flip over all the cards you get: If women exist, they might get raped.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. Wow. Nice bunch of guys. nt

[Iggo]

9. Best of the best...

...is what I'm sure they tell themselves every day that they are.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. And that is a pretty scary concept.

I know a lot of really nice, good men. But there is an element out there that scares the bejesus out of me. It's something that I just don't understand.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. Name needs to be shortened

to The Porcine Club.

[Brickbat]

12. I commend their honesty.

[KamaAina]

13. Ha! Yale's Skull and Bones has been coed since the early '90s!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones#History

Since the society's inclusion of women in the early 1990s, Skull and Bones selects fifteen men and women of the junior class to join the society.

Harvard continues to suck! -K-A, Y'85