evilromero
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I did it and it was just as I expected.
Sorority recruiting vid taken down, "worse for women than Donald Trump"
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I did it and it was just as I expected.
Buddha Beam
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Hmm, what? Sorry. I was too busy ogling all the hot college blondes to notice whatever.
kunonabi
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There was one fat chick that started showing up the near the end of the vid. I don't see how this was all that bad outside of a few ass shots. The swimsuit stuff wasn't excessive and the mascot was the one doing the twerking. Is it really necessary to tear them down and drag them through the mud because they only have one black member?
boiled goose
good with gravy
Video was harmless...
Lack of diversity is the only thing to criticize. They were all white skinny mostly blonde girls.
Lack of diversity is the only thing to criticize. They were all white skinny mostly blonde girls.
blame space
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they're all just laughing hysterically
PlayALLtheGames
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I was expecting something raunchy. This is just a bunch of chicks waving at the camera. Objectifying women? That's over the top, IMO.
As for the diversity issue: keep in mind UA is 80% white and 54% girls. Then remember that the Greek system is overwhelmingly white across the country. THEN remember that this is Alabama, a notoriously racist state.
It seems to me things like this won't change until the entire culture of the state does. Being this is Alabama, that'll probably take another couple of centuries.
As for the diversity issue: keep in mind UA is 80% white and 54% girls. Then remember that the Greek system is overwhelmingly white across the country. THEN remember that this is Alabama, a notoriously racist state.
It seems to me things like this won't change until the entire culture of the state does. Being this is Alabama, that'll probably take another couple of centuries.
gamechanger87
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Seriously. Videos like this one and all of the below from other public school sororities makes me wish I went there just for the views. Oh how I miss college
These videos are made every year by tons of sororities. This one is only getting heat because someone wanted to make a name for themselves by complaining.
For those of you looking for additional proof........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nYmVC6Hr1k
https://vimeo.com/128106277
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlALIIx05OY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlWwCnMVrpw
https://vimeo.com/130008720
For the record I do not have these saved but Barstool Sports does a rundown on each of them when they pop up each year.
That's honestly, my first thought. I don't see a problem with the video until the "lack of minority" was pointed out. Also:
Yeah, that was my second thought. "Yeah, let's advertise ourselves as fun and breezy and totally willing to get down the boys."
gamechanger87
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Its essentially this. We are all pretty and fun. If you come join us, you can be pretty and fun too!
It's like any advertising video. They just don't have a million people doing test screenings so no one gets their feelings hurt. Ads aren't supposed to be real.
Seriously, try and imagine what an actual McDonald's ad would look like if they used actual customers and the reasons that they are going. I don't think its a group of 25 year olds in great shape with one from each race/ethnicity buying McDonalds for a romp to the beach.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Look at all these hosts for Fox News.
I'm unsure how this video is advertising their willingness to "get down the boys."
Panhellenic??
Anton Sugar
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The most offensive thing about this video was the shitty fly/steady cam operation.
lol
lol
I expected this to be overtly sexual, but it's really just a group of girls hanging out and having fun. It's actually pretty gross that someone is labelling this video as "worse for women than Donald Trump." That's a ridiculous amount of pressure and shaming, to place on a group of college girls who made an innocent video about having fun.
link?
It's a more dumb term for "greek".
I legit laughed.
DonasaurusRex
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they shot a taylor swift video? I don't really care how diverse the video is, that's on them but lol the video looks funny at best, and outright late nite MT...well i guess these days Fuse video block bad.
Sho_Nuff82
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This is what college girls actually look like though. And Men's fitness ranked Alabama as the 10th fittest college in the US.
Like Shang Tsung said, "Treasure these moments."
gamechanger87
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Well, I just ran the search here. Need to go back through pages.
http://www.barstoolsports.com/?s=sorority
They usually pop up every August. So you need to go back through the pages. I just pasted the ones from this year.
I like blondes, but fake blondes?
Sure it does. I don't understand the appeal of Greek culture, and I don't understand why people find vapid basics with fake blonde hair and orange tans attractive physically. It seems trite and artificial to me.
n00bsauce87
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You actually win the thread. I thought this was the problematic part of the video. Not that WASPs interact with other WASPs. The fact that you were the only one who mentioned that is also a problem. I don't think I could live "colorblind". You'll miss out on subtleties as blatant as that.
I don't think that's necessarily fair to the girls in the video. Like I said, I can't speak for this particular sorority, but it seems like progress was being held up by alumnae, not the current students.
Do you remember Melanie Gotz, the sorority sister who wanted to admit a black woman into her sorority, only to be told that the alumnae had blocked that woman's bid?
http://nation.time.com/2013/09/20/university-of-alabama-integrates-sororities/
So it's not perfect, but it's improving.
And now you know the rest of the story. /Paul Harvey
side rant: And fuck all the ignorant motherfuckers who come in here spouting shit like "oh it's alabama giggle giggle giggle those girls must be racist because they're from alabama and everybody from alabama is a mouth-breathing product of incest who just doesn't know any better but the people where i live are all living harmoniously in a post-racial world where everyone gets along regardless of the color of their skin and nobody is ever treated lesser or different here even by cops because we live in a wondrous land with lollipop trees and rivers made of chocolate"
First thing I thought of was that movie.
n00bsauce87
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Boy, wait til you see the same video in OP that everyone else saw. There was a token black person. And it seems a couple of others saw the one black person in the vid and made note of it. All of those posters were black and/or post in BCT so I'm not surprised.
Your avatar looks like someone painted Jayden Smith on a varnished egg. You don't get to talk about taste.
Yeah, maybe I was too harsh in my last post. I'm just a bit fed up about how things always turn out on here (in America?). I do appreciate the effort you took to explain the broader situation to me, thank you.
Edit: Oh and your rant gave me a good giggle too. Twas very true.
MatrixMan.EXE
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That was cringe as fuck. Glad this shit isn't a thing at Universities in my country.
I'm afraid they did hahaha
I'm afraid they did hahaha
Cizeta-Moroder
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Life is truly brutal
No problem at all. I'm not a fan of some of UA President Judy Bonner's other policies and decisions, but she's been on point in helping the current students pry control of their organizations away from the old alumnae and admit the students THEY want to spend their college years with, whether they be black, white, brown or orange.
It's like every thread involving Alabama turns into this somehow.
I saw a decent amount of brunettes lol. That said, many women I know color their hair blonde as well. You'd be surprised at how many people are actually truly blonde.
Yeah same here. Maybe it's just my already low opinion of greek life taking over here but I'm not quite sure what makes this so offensive as to be taken down.
soundscream
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Worse for golden retrievers than Donald Trump?
Daaawwwww
I want to get in there and do some petting.
Yaphett Kotto
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The first thing that popped in my mind when I saw the video yesterday was "why the fuck is everyone blond." Reminds me of that video posted by Vice about racist sororities at UA.
Though, I have some highschool classmates that go to UA and they are black so I know its not a blatant racism problem and something more complex and subtle.
You can thank rural Alabama for that. Once you leave from a city like Montgomery, you have Confederate flags hitched on the back of pickups.
Though, I have some highschool classmates that go to UA and they are black so I know its not a blatant racism problem and something more complex and subtle.
You can thank rural Alabama for that. Once you leave from a city like Montgomery, you have Confederate flags hitched on the back of pickups.
Red Blaster
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da fuq at that music
am i at an infiniti dealership
am i at an infiniti dealership
like.. totally
VeryGooster
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All-white AKB48 video.
Some weird angry energy in this thread for what this video is.
Some weird angry energy in this thread for what this video is.
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