Yale fraternity: Student pledges chant "No means yes, yes means anal!" to first year female students

[BrentWil]

Sometime you just have to wonder. Jesus. Doesn't anyone still teach boys to respect women and rape is wrong?


http://www.salon.com/life/violence_against_women/?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/10/15/yale_fraternity_pledges_chant_about_rape

On Wednesday night, Delta Kappa Epsilon pledges marched through Yale's Old Campus -- where most first-year female students are housed -- chanting, "No means yes, yes means anal!" The fraternity pledges were marched blindfolded while barking like soldiers ... with marching orders of anal rape. They also threw in, "My name is Jack, I'm a necrophiliac, I fuck dead women." A video of the initiation was immediately posted on YouTube and, what do you know, it's gone viral.

Now, DKE President Jordan Forney has been forced to apologize for this blatant sexual intimidation by calling it "a serious lapse in judgment by the fraternity and in very poor taste." But this sort of hateful crap isn't a "lapse in judgment." It doesn't innocently happen that you're guiding male pledges by young women's dorms in the dark of night chanting about anal rape. It isn't a forehead-slapping slip-up, it's a sign that you need major reprogramming as a human being. Student feminist magazine Broad Recognition has it right: It's calling for Yale to take disciplinary action against DKE -- where George W. Bush got his presidential training -- "on behalf of its female students."

[Poll_Blind]

1. WARNING: The site that video is on is a malware distribution site and I recommend NOT visiting.

Read the Google safety page for this site http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/01/yale-dke-brothers-scream-primally-art-ensues/">HERE

PB

[BrentWil]

2. Thanks NT

[BrentWil]

7. The video is from youtube. But I took down my suggestion that people watch it. NT

[prolesunited]

3. Fuck an apology

Sanctions definitely, possibly a suspension and if part of an ongoing pattern, kick them off campus.

Boys will be boys my ass. And who the hell would want to join that fraternity?

[seabeyond]

4. this thread came thru a week ago. a poster suggest a publicized search for date rape

drugs in the frat home. i thought appropriate. since they are promoting rape, one has to wonder if rape drug would be a choice....

good lesson for the "boys"

[regnaD kciN]

5. Actually, I think it's a very useful demonstration...

...teaching Yale's first-year female students to have nothing to do with DKE "men."

:spank:

[Odin2005]

6. Time to close down this frat.

[Truth2Tell]

8. this frat?

The whole Greek system breeds this shit. A friend of mine once wrote an article for our student newspaper describing the Greek system as a "giant rape factory." I think he pretty much nailed it.

[Odin2005]

9. I agree, actually.