Then They Came For The Sorority Girls

...and I did not speak out, because I was not a sorority girl...

If you haven't seen the Alabama Alpha Phi pledge recruitment video yet, click here. It's a slick video of college girls committing the crime of Having Fun While White.

We already knew that being a white fraternity boy carries the presumption of guilt for sexual assault. Sabrina Erdely's fictitious Rolling Stone article about gang-rape as a fraternity initiation ritual was a brush-back pitch at the Greek system.

The Alpha Phi video caught a virulent backlash, and The Sisterhood Of The Perpetually Outraged booted up the grievance-bots. It all seems so tedious and predictable now that I have arrived at my unified Theory of Feminist Activism: It's a drive for resource allocation, accumulation and management by and for women. Why should beautiful women control a disproportionate share of resources, just because they can attract high-status males?

I turned on KFI640 on my way to work, and caught a segment of Bill Carroll's show that made my blood boil. I pulled a few quotes from the audio archive in order to truly appreciate Carroll's insufferable displeasure.

Carroll says, "Here's a video that got some university students in trouble, see, even at that age they're too stupid to know, don't put this stuff on video. They crossed the line." Carroll's previous mini-segment was about LAUSD's campaign against sexting. A middle-schooler sending a lascivious photo is not comparable to an adult woman appearing in a video wearing a swimsuit.

Carroll cites a source that says "some of the criticism" of the video is that "it depicts women as commodities. Where's the diversity? It's objectifying. It's reductive," and my personal favorite, "it's unempowering."

Carroll says that he "wouldn't want my daughter to be part of this." Fair enough argument there. Parents have the natural right and instinct to protect their children. A father naturally doesn't want his daughter to do drugs, or be a stripper, or be a prostitute. While the comparison between being a sorority girl and a stripper is non-existent and negatively correlated, I will allow the man to be a father. But his protective impulses extends to everybody's children.

"That's not the world I'm trying to create. They're doing nothing for the women's movement." Sounds alarmingly like a male feminist trying to make the world into some kind of utopia. That is a very dangerous desire. We should have learned something from the hundreds of millions of victims of commmunism.

"You can meet a lot of people at a Klan meeting, too." Let me know the first time a sorority burns a cross on someone's lawn, Bill.

"I wouldn't worry about these girls, because they're going to have all the privilege, these are not the girls who struggle their way through life." White guy telling white girls to check their privilege. And how very presumptuous to say that none of these girls are going to struggle.

How utterly tiresome all this feminism and white knighting is. So why on earth am I about to press "publish" and perpetuate the tedium? Because I am exercising my directive to show a few hundred people that Bill Carroll is an insufferable asshat. That's enough.