Raise the son who makes frat culture irrelevant. We need to raise a generation of sons who look at the blueprint of frat culture and laugh at those rapist losers. We need to raise a generation of sons that make the entire notion of fraternities obsolete.

The shift must be seismic for this campus rape cycle to end, and the good news is research has identified a clear problem with a practical solution if we are to pretend college campuses are places where not getting raped matters as much as male bonding. And it’s breathtakingly clear cut. We can abolish something that has an established track record of resulting in rapes: Fraternities, the socially condoned epicenters of college rape culture. Abolish frats.

“But it’s a brotherhood of friendship and service that has roots in tradition —” fuck you, Brendan, go play outside.

Fraternities are rape incubators and this is backed by hard, peer-reviewed evidence.

According to a longitudinal study by the NIH published in 2022 titled “Selection and Socialization Accounts of the Relation between Fraternity Membership and Sexual Aggression,” researchers found that frats cause rape.

  • t3rmit3 ( t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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    1 hour ago

    All guys, especially guys who choose not to go into frats, know this. Frats have always been about rich or popular kids having a place to congregate that was partially shielded from administration, to be able to do stuff they otherwise couldn’t (often with the help of their alumni parents).