“That Alabama Sorority Video” – OUTRAGE!

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BobLee
August19/ 2015

This article and accompanying YouTube video BLEW UP the Internet yesterday.  If you saw it, I bet you said “BobLee is gonna have something to say about this.” ….. Yep., I do.  The only way this could have been a bigger Internet KABOOM is if somehow Art Chansky and Ronda Rousey had managed cameos.

Pretty Southern Sorority Girls being “Pretty Southern Sorority Girls”

– & The (oh-so-predictable) Outrage !!!

Here’s the thumbnail version:  A Univ Alabama sorority chapter did a five minute YouTube video promoting their chapter for their upcoming Fall Greek Rush season at Alabama.  It’s a five minute montage of dozens of quite pretty college girls dancing and frolicking and smiling and seemingly have a grand ol’ time enjoying being pretty college girls with their sorority sisters.

There are ZERO scenes of drinking, drugs or implied sexual hijinks.  There is only one male in the thing…. supposedly a Tide FBer in a scene inside Bryant-Denny Stadium.  It is “Life is just Grand if you are one of us in our sorority”.

There is no audio to the video other than music.  There are no comments by the girls or by a narrator.

It is a music video of a bunch of pretty Southern Sorority girls being happy being pretty Southern Sorority girls.

OK, there are no blacks, muslims, Indians, Dominicans, Tranys, Hillary look-alikes, or “four lesbians in a daisy chain”.   One could easily get the impression that this sorority chapter is NOT “a small world after all” with every conceivable racial, gender-bending, sexual preference option in today’s “abnormal is the new normal” culture …. as rammed down our throats by the mainstream media.

Alabama GirlsYes, it could be said to fortify pretty much every demographic / intellectual stereotype of “pretty Southern sorority girls”.  It could justifiably be labeled “The Stepford Southern Sorority Sisters Do A Video”….

or Lake Wobegone’s Sorority where all the girls are blond and leggy with smiles to die for….” and, of course….

In 2015 America…. THIS is a high crime.

The Univ of Alabama Admins have …. TA DAAA …. responded in EXACTLY the OMG!!! fashion I would expect from Chancellor Chihuahua over in Old Well Land.   Their “HORRIFIED” admins rush (no pun intended) to harrumph “THIS is NOT what our university is about” was every bit as stereotypical as the video was.   Both the sorority and the “horrified admins” could provide a good stand-up comedian with hours of material.

That was a pretty big “thumbnail, huh?  Read the text then go to the link to see the video itself.   WARNING:   Do Not Go To The Video UNLESS you want to see – dozens of pretty Southern Sorority girls dancing and frolicking and being happy being who they are.

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See the Oppression Inherent in the System: The Alabama Sorority Video Outrage

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/422704/see-oppression-inherent-system-alabama-sorority-video-outrage-david-french

NOTE:  The Video has been Taken Down

…. BUT not before there were images pulled from it.   Hey…. This is BobLeeSays and my Buddies & Babes get VIP service ….  by golly:

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So we can thank this video for the latest race and gender campus mini-tempest:

It’s a recruiting video for a University of Alabama sorority, and it just might be the least-Ivy-League-feminist five minutes ever posted on the internet.

It went semi-viral after a writer for AL.com called it “worse for women than Donald Trump.” Her case: It’s a parade of white girls and blonde hair dye, coordinated clothing, bikinis and daisy dukes, glitter and kisses, bouncing bodies, euphoric hand-holding and hugging, gratuitous booty shots, and matching aviator sunglasses. 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. The University seemed to agree, penning its own condemnation: This video is not reflective of UA’s expectations for student organizations to be responsible digital citizens,” Deborah Lane, the associate vice president for university relations said in a statement. “It is important for student organizations to remember what is posted on social media makes a difference, today and tomorrow, on how they are viewed and perceived.

I have three thoughts. First, what’s “unempowering” is the notion that these women aren’t autonomous enough to decide for themselves the life they enjoy or the image they choose to present. No men were demanding they do this video. Indeed, the audience is obviously like-minded women — people looking for exactly the social experience depicted on the video.

It’s no wonder so few women describe themselves as “feminist” if that means joining a movement that’s going to crush other women online if they choose to project a “hyper-feminine” image.

Second, it’s more than a little disturbing to see an arm of the state determining that a frivolous little video depicting exactly zero unlawful or irresponsible behavior doesn’t comport with its definition of a “responsible digital citizen.”

I know that Alabama is making an aggressive move for the South’s most academically gifted students (a number of friends have kids there on generous academic scholarships), and those kids are the least likely to find this video appealing, but Alabama has to know that condemning this video only serves to highlight it — ensuring that it will be seen by exactly the kinds of kids it is trying to attract, the media-savvy nerds who track the news and dominate the standardized tests.

Third, none of my comments above should be construed as an endorsement of contemporary SEC Greek life, which is often consumed by the Thursday (sometimes Wednesday) through Sunday (sometimes Monday) party culture. Far from being the last bastion of southern classical culture that its critics imagine, it is all-too-often the home of the yeeeeehaw! and wooooohooo! of the increasingly expensive five-year college rave. Not every sorority or fraternity is guilty — and even the hard partiers are not necessarily outliers on their own party-consumed campuses — but parents beware.

You’re often paying top dollar to send your children to an alcohol-soaked version of Disneyland, where their hands will hold a red solo cup far more often than a laptop, iPad, or textbook.

Universities walk a hypocritical line — doing their best to cultivate a scholarly image while knowing full well that thousands of their students party more than they study. Sure, they try to attract the top performers, but it’s the mediocre student (and professional keg-stander) who pays the bills. Alabama’s embarrassed because one its sororities was caught telling the truth about their college experience – that it has a lot to do with fun and not much to do with education.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/422704/see-oppression-inherent-system-alabama-sorority-video-outrage-david-french

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