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[quote=Anonymous]Is it the fraternities and sororities?
The binge drinking?
The "hook-up" mentality?
How we teach boys/men to think about girls?
How we teach women to think about protecting themselves?
All of the above?

I am biased.  I was a ridiculous fuddy-duddy in college who did not drink pretty much at all.  I thought most parties were stupid and boring and too loud (you can imagine how popular I was).  I went to an elite school in the South and I found the entire culture of the place to be completely f-ed up, even though as an 18 year old I wasn't quite sophisticated enough to articulate why.  People self-segregated by race, drank themselves into a stupor for "fun," and there was definitely this weird misogynistic undertone to everything.  Women on campus felt an intense pressure to be awesome at everything, especially looking as beautiful as possible.  There was a school task force on eating disorders at one point.  At one fraternity party they somehow got a bunch of girls to wrestle in baby oil.  This is degrading to women, not cute or fun, but no one was really surprised or upset by this kind of stuff.  Everything was greeted with a "boys will be boys" type of collective shrug.[/quote]

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