GIRLS GONE WILD OR GIRLS GONE MILD?: SATURDAY FEATURE
By III, wald66@hotmail.com
A big story in sports news recently has been the
release of so-called “horrifying� photos of the Northwestern girls soccer team involved in what appears to be some sort of hazing ritual. Some might look at this event and ask the question, “How could these girls do something so terrible?� Me? I have somewhat of a different mindset towards these young ladies’ actions.
Maybe it’s because I’m a guy, and the idea of running around in underwear blindfolded, chugging beers, isn’t necessarily a weird thing. But it’s something other than just being able to relate to the girls. A former fraternity member, these types of events were not, shall I say, uncommon. So believe me when I say I know about the hazing process. No, there is something more to this situation than meets the eye. The media has developed the entire event into a tragedy - something that needs the attention of parents, teachers and coaches everywhere. I don’t mean to be so liberal about this, but...why? Let’s examine the situation.
To the older generation, this seems to be a heinous crime where the freshman girls were the victims. But here’s the thing. The girls you see in the background dishing out these “punishments� are the same ones that were the victims at this time last year. And one year later – they’re fine. Allow me to analogize. I was an intern at a PR firm in Washington, DC for 5 months. The people above me, yelling at me to make copies of documents, run down the street to get them a latte, and stay until 10 pm to staple papers together – these were the same people who, 5 months before I got there, were doing the same tedious chores. My point is this: Is there really that much of difference between doing 9 straight hours of mind-numbing, head-ache inducing stapling and standing in your boxers and chugging beer? Me personally? I would volunteer to do the latter. So before we go and accuse these girls of devious behavior, I think we should think twice about how deviant this really is. Because if this is bad, remember when yesterday morning when you forced the pimple-faced intern to get you a Pepsi from the office kitchen? That was just plain evil.
Or maybe I just enjoyed free pictures of girls in their underwear.
A big story in sports news recently has been the
release of so-called “horrifying� photos of the Northwestern girls soccer team involved in what appears to be some sort of hazing ritual. Some might look at this event and ask the question, “How could these girls do something so terrible?� Me? I have somewhat of a different mindset towards these young ladies’ actions.Maybe it’s because I’m a guy, and the idea of running around in underwear blindfolded, chugging beers, isn’t necessarily a weird thing. But it’s something other than just being able to relate to the girls. A former fraternity member, these types of events were not, shall I say, uncommon. So believe me when I say I know about the hazing process. No, there is something more to this situation than meets the eye. The media has developed the entire event into a tragedy - something that needs the attention of parents, teachers and coaches everywhere. I don’t mean to be so liberal about this, but...why? Let’s examine the situation.
To the older generation, this seems to be a heinous crime where the freshman girls were the victims. But here’s the thing. The girls you see in the background dishing out these “punishments� are the same ones that were the victims at this time last year. And one year later – they’re fine. Allow me to analogize. I was an intern at a PR firm in Washington, DC for 5 months. The people above me, yelling at me to make copies of documents, run down the street to get them a latte, and stay until 10 pm to staple papers together – these were the same people who, 5 months before I got there, were doing the same tedious chores. My point is this: Is there really that much of difference between doing 9 straight hours of mind-numbing, head-ache inducing stapling and standing in your boxers and chugging beer? Me personally? I would volunteer to do the latter. So before we go and accuse these girls of devious behavior, I think we should think twice about how deviant this really is. Because if this is bad, remember when yesterday morning when you forced the pimple-faced intern to get you a Pepsi from the office kitchen? That was just plain evil.
Or maybe I just enjoyed free pictures of girls in their underwear.
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12:33 PM
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