Minnesota Students Think “Frat Boys, Stop Raping People” Sign Will Help Start Dialogue With Greeks
9 years ago

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A student co-op (essentially a dorm that provides more affordable housing to students) at the University of Minnesota is using its outdoor landscape to send a positive message to the world and brighten other students’ days. Just kidding. The students there are actually using the space to post signs like “”Frat boys, stop raping people” and “Dear frat boys, I’ll be making signs til y’all stop assaulting people!!!”

Fun, right?

From Citypages:

The display began early in the spring semester. Co-op members attending various sexual violence awareness demonstrations around the Twin Cities would leave them in the yard when they returned. That gave residents an idea.

“It was like, ‘Hey, we can use this as a platform we can choose to utilize,'” says Mallory Mitchell, the co-op’s co-president. “There has to be, we believe, a culture shift in the fraternity system where the boys-will-be-boys behavior is no longer excused.”

The signs have multiplied over time. Most target sexual violence and frat houses. Mitchell says many students have expressed gratitude for the display.
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“The dialogue that needs to take place is addressing the toxic masculinity that’s pervasive within the fraternity system,” Mitchell tells City Pages. “The fraternities provide a convenient environment for sexual violence.”

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Well then.

As I assume everybody knows, all frat boys are rapists and we should shut the whole Greek system down. Shut the whole damn thing down!

Call me crazy, but I don’t think you can say you’re trying to create “dialogue” when you’ve already come in guns blazing and ready to burn the place down. I don’t think that’s how peace talks work.

Look, Mallory. You and us? We’re not so different. We both have the same goal in mind: Reduce sexual violence on college campuses. One incident is one incident too many. But Jesus H. Christ, making signs that generalizes an entire group for the poor decisions of a very, very few is incredibly outrageous and irresponsible. Heaven forbid one of the students living in the co-op messes up and gets a DUI or something. Would a “stop driving drunk, all co-op students!!!” sign be an acceptable response? No, it would not. Should a sign like that be posted, I highly doubt you’d see it and say, “Oh yeah, true. One person messed up so that taints all of us. They got us there” either.

Also, a 10-year study by the state of Massachusetts found 81 percent of reported rapes and assaults occurred in dorms. Four percent occurred in fraternities over the same time period. Maybe we can broaden the focus and help reduce sexual violence campus wide instead of immediately picking up the pitchforks and heading to Greektown.

Not surprisingly, the Interfraternity Council isn’t happy about the signs and has filed a complaint with the Student Union and Activities. However, the SUA has ruled the signs don’t violate any university policy and will be allowed to remain up, which considering the current culture on many college campuses toward free speech is surprising but somewhat respectable. You’re not always going to like what others say, but free speech is free speech, and it’s an American right. If only that was more broadly understood…

Good luck.

[via Citypages]

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  2. State Street Steve

    Are these the same people that destroyed Baltimore and St. Louis when they claimed a racist cop shot a black?

    9 years ago at 2:43 pm
      2. THEosuNattyBoh

        The liberals of course. I miss shamu and peta had to come in and ruin that

        9 years ago at 5:37 pm
    2. PillaryClinton

      Mallory probably wishes she had some frat boy inside her instead of clogged arteries and diabetes. Ever notice how the women that are most vocal about “frat boy rapists” are also the same ones that couldn’t get Stevie Wonder to touch them with a 10 foot pole?

      9 years ago at 4:36 pm
  5. JeffersonSteelflex38

    Its still amazing to me that chicks like her continue to perpetuate this shit.

    9 years ago at 2:49 pm
  6. dingos_lil_5

    I thought 3% of rapes/sexual assault cases happened at fraternity houses either way 4% is incredibly low compared to other examples.

    9 years ago at 2:55 pm
  7. billybudd

    I’m going to keep making signs until GDIs stop shooting up fraternity houses because they didn’t get a bid

    9 years ago at 3:09 pm
  8. Frat_ass_

    “The signs were allowed to stay up which considering college culture towards free speech is surprising.”

    It’s not fucking surprising at all. Free speech is only infringed upon if your opinions don’t coincide with leftist agenda. If you’re a lefty, minority, SJW, or just don’t like straight white males, you can say whatever you want. Everyone on the right is too afraid to even say, “huh?” because they’ll get labeled a racist or someone who promotes rape culture. These delusional feminists could literally have signs that say “Fuck fraternities and everyone who has ever been a part of one” and the schools are either run by liberals who jizz at the sight of these signs or run by normals won’t do shit because they don’t want bad press. You cannot make this stuff up

    9 years ago at 3:10 pm
    1. mosthonorableactive

      For years the left has started off every debate by calling the other side racists, sexists, and now rapists, usually with flimsy evidence or a broad stereotype of the person they disagree with. By doing that, the other person’s first instinct is to insist that they aren’t whatever horrible thing they were just called, and now that leftist has basically ended the debate before it even began

      Trump won because he didn’t let the other side dictate the terms of the debate. It’s clear they aren’t learning their lesson

      9 years ago at 7:21 pm
  9. Gerald R. Ford

    Here is the deal with fraternity rapes they don’t exist and if they do they are very very very rare I can’t even recall the last time a fraternity member was convicted of rape. And then IFC had started making members take sexual assault programs and it makes us look guilty of a crime that hasn’t even been committed, but in IFC eyes it makes members look like they are taking care of the problem a problem that doesn’t exist and only make us look guilty.

    9 years ago at 3:12 pm
    1. Gerald R. Ford

      In fact at my school they tried making us do it and I respectively refused to attend or pay the fine and I won in the sga appeals court.

      9 years ago at 3:16 pm
  10. President Jimmy Carter

    First off it’s a fraternity not a “frat” & 2nd off fraternities don’t rape.

    9 years ago at 3:36 pm