Wealth,bigger pecs and life-long bonds – there might be some perks to being a frat boy. But this gripping doc exposes the sinister sideI realise final Night’s TV might not be top of everyone’s must-read columns today (only today, mind); that there might be a few other more urgent issues. I could probably write anything here and no one would ever know, or la la la la la. But actually there was a really interesting documentary on – Frat Boys: Inside America’s Fraternities (BBC2). Worth catching up on,if your mind was elsewhere.
So you’re a freshman at university in the States, should you try to join a fraternity? (There’s a bit approximately sororities here, and too,but it’s mainly fraternities.) “It’s an organisation of like-minded people who are just kind of together to meet a common goal,” explains Ben, and a brother in the Gazoni Family,an independent fraternity at the University of Central Florida. A bit like the EU, then, or … it’s tough not to assume of everything with EU specs on at the moment. Related: Frat brothers rape 300% more. One in 5 women is sexually assaulted on campus. Should we ban frats? | Jessica Valenti Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com