Drop off
Haha good old fun-loving college boy rape culture haha it’s alive and well at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, the Huffington Post tells us.
Three banners were displayed at a private, off-campus house in Norfolk, Virginia, reading “Freshman Daughter Drop Off,” with an arrow pointing at the front door, “Go Ahead And Drop Off Mom Too …” and “Rowdy And Fun, Hope Your Baby Girl Is Ready For A Good Time …” The students removed the banners after the university contacted them, school officials said.
Haha get it? “Drop Off” so that we can fuck them haha we like to fuck haha that’s what girls are for haha that’s what a university is for haha.
A Virginia man posted the photos Friday afternoon on Facebook. A screengrab captured by The Huffington Post is displayed below:
Big letters! Everyone can read them from far away!
In response, Old Dominion University started posting multiple statements on social media denouncing the banners.
“Messages like the ones displayed yesterday by a few students on the balcony of their private residence are not and will not be tolerated,” ODU said in a statement to HuffPost. “The moment University staff became aware of these banners, they worked to have them removed. At ODU, we foster a community of respect and dignity and these messages sickened us. They are not representative of our 3,000 faculty and staff, 25,000 students and our 130,000 alumni.”
Well they seem to be representative of some of their 25,000 students.
Oh well, it’s only women.
I’m not a helicopter mom or anything but if I saw those signs hanging up while dropping my daughter off at uni, I’d cause a ruckus.
Let’s hope that college kids are smart enough to not party at that frat or allow its members to party with them.
People these days are just so dang uptight about everything. Can’t university boys have fun any more? It was just a joke…you can tell it was a joke because of the sign about dropping Mom off too. Where’s your sense of humour?
I know, we’re such a bunch of killjoys!
Yeah. I know that I should laugh at jokes that objectify my daughter and myself but I just can’t. Oh well, you know what they say about women and no sense of humour.
Nasty little jerks.
(clears throat, assumes orators pose, held held high) They’s all be bitches!
Honestly, I find myself hating young men sometimes – and I used to be one. Not like that I have to say, but still.
On private property, though, I would see it more as a useful message about which creeps to avoid than reflecting on the university. I don’t like the frat system at all, though. Isn’t it time it ended?
Samantha Vimes, at least some resources, such as the college rankings at US News &World Report let you find out whether there are frats in a particular school and how much of the student body is involved in them.
@SamBarge: It was >10 years ago when I dropped off my son for his 1st year, but I would have been inclined to cause a ruckus myself if I had seen that sort of thing (actually, I would have expected *him* to cause a ruckus).
@Samantha Vimes: I actually found it encouraging that, even though the house was on private property, and apparently not an official student residence, the university (both officials and student government) did not simply wash their hands of the problem but took responsibility for unequivocally condemning the action, and took the opportunity to reinforce their commitment to stand up against rape culture.
@Rob: I find myself saddened that so many young men have reached university age without being given the opportunity to learn that women are people just like them. But lots of people find their worldviews changed at university, so it’s not necessarily too late to change.
(And I do hope everyone knows that my comment at #2 was intended to be sarcastic and facetious.)
Theo Bromine @9, Yup, I think we all got it. I was joining in your lead by providing the punch line (I assume that was also obvious).
They should get all the names of men in that frat and send warnings to the rest of the students to avoid them. A bit of shunning may get the point across that their behavior is unacceptable
In related, The Current had a thing with Jon Krakauer today about his Missoula book as I was driving in (I was late… Virus in house… Don’t ask… Anyway see http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-august-26-2015-1.3204129/missoula-author-jon-krakauer-investigates-campus-rape-1.3204167 if interested)…
The warning is appropriate. Krakauer is a good interview, but sometimes too good. Stuff in there about the trauma of acquaintance rape, how brutally the system and much of culture treats complainants. I felt this odd impulse to turn around, have another shower.
(Related on Krakauer, the interview characterizes him as an adventure writer, but he’s also done other stuff outside mountaineering. It seems almost to me it’s more just that it’s that stuff people are comfortable thinking about. His Under the Banner of Heaven was disliked by the expected apologists. Me, I’d recommend it (surprise). It’ll be vaguely diverting to see who criticizes this one as somehow lacking credence, and suggesting he stick to climbing. But hardly surprising, I expect.)