Sororities aren’t hurting anybody by frolicking around in swimsuits or hoop skirts. And the girls appear to be unharmed in the process of engaging in their own supposed oppression.
The video you’re about to see may offend and even disturb you.
No one will think less of you if you decide not to watch what may be one of the most horrifying clips of our time.
But, for the brave and bold among you, here is the University of Alabama chapter of Alpha Phi’s 2015 sorority recruitment video:
Oh, you didn’t see anything wrong with this video? That would make you like most sane, well-adjusted people.
A.L. Bailey of AL.com is not one of those folks. In a column that went viral over the weekend, Bailey said the video was “worse for women than Donald Trump.”
How could a five-minute recording of pretty sorority girls having a blast being, well, pretty sorority girls, hurt women?
Because it’s “all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so Stepford Wives: College Edition. It’s all so … unempowering.”
Yes, to have fun now as a young woman, you must have enforced diversity, not be so girly and do some undefined empowering in the middle of doing somersaults.
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