South Carolina Sororities Ban Members From Fraternity Tailgates Until Guys Get Their Drinking Under Control
Sorority Council at the University of South Carolina has banned sorority members from fraternity tailgates until at least October 1. For fraternity members, this will mean a major lack of girls wearing little black dresses and cowboy boots for their first home game against East Carolina on September 17. According to a text message obtained by TFM, it appears as though the ban is the Sorority Council’s own form of punishment for the fraternity guys’ drunken behavior.
A written statement for the ban has yet to be released, but a sorority member who sat for a meeting with the council typed up the announcement and sent it to a fraternity member, who then sent it to us.
Judging by the announcement, it appears as though the ban was handed down as a means of curbing the drinking at USC fraternities, which have seen a substantial increase in alcohol-related hospitalizations this year (if someone can hit me with the stats proving that, I’d appreciate it). Apparently, sorority members will not be permitted to attend any private tailgate for the first home game on Saturday, and when October hits, those members will not be permitted to attend any tailgate that serves hard alcohol.
The council adds: “As women, we have the power to control the men.”
This sucks ass, but you have to admit, it is pretty hilarious. It’s essentially the organizational equivalent of a girlfriend withholding sex until a man gets his shit together. Totally enforceable, too. I guarantee there will be teams of sisters from every sorority patrolling the tailgate lots, looking for girls to slip up. Some people suck that badly.
Kind of fucked up how the sorority council puts all of the blame on the guys, though. Yes, fraternities are the ones serving the alcohol. But women are at just as much fault for drinking too much, throwing up in their dorm rooms, then telling their RAs, “I WAS AT XXXX FRAT PARTY!”.
**UPDATE**
Here’s the official announcement:
“As women, we have the power to control the men.” More girlpower fiction. It works for a day or two until they see that the frats have replaced them with other women. Then panic sets in.
10 years ago at 1:17 pmWho wouldn’t drink to the point of hospitalization if Muschamp was the coach of their football team?
10 years ago at 1:30 pmI bet it’s killing you guys that you can’t put a watermark on that release. In all seriousness though, this is an organization trying to make things better by banning something. And we all know how often that works out.
10 years ago at 2:10 pmGlad I didn’t go to school in South Carolina.
10 years ago at 2:25 pmNext we need to make laws that it is ilegal to kill people using a gun.
10 years ago at 2:35 pmSeems oddly similar to the liberal “Let’s blame the gun and not the shooter”
10 years ago at 3:45 pmI guess Saturdays are now actually for the boys
10 years ago at 9:45 pmIt’s actually really disgusting to see that “we have the power to control guys” comment. If gender roles had been reversed the country and these sororities would lose their damn minds. Fraternity men of South Carolina, get your drinking under control, black ball any girl with the mentality that she has the “power to control” you. And girls, we need to realize we can’t change guys. Get rid of your “I need to fix him” mentality and find a man who doesn’t need to be fixed or learn to accept his flaws like he has with yours.
10 years ago at 11:13 pm