Alabama sorority in big trouble for posting video with too many white faces

A sorority in Alabama is in big trouble for posting a video of its members.  The problem is that all the members in the video are white.  This was a front-page story on the New York Times, equal to the Iranian nuclear negotiations and the Donald Trump coverage.

 

A video promoting the University of Alabama’s chapter of a largely white sorority has been taken down after being widely criticized online for its portrayal of women and for its lack of diversity.

It mostly shows sorority members having a good time: dancing in front of their sorority house, blowing glitter and kisses, frolicking in swimsuits and taking a trip to the school’s Bryant-Denny football stadium in the company of the university’s mascot, an elephant known as Big Al.

The video was viewed over half a million times in one week before being taken down from the sorority’s YouTube channel, but is still available elsewhere.

The university was quick to disavow the video.

A statement from the school’s associate vice president for university relations, Deborah Lane, said that the video “is not reflective of UA’s expectations for student organizations to be responsible digital citizens.”

What?  What's wrong with women blowing kisses in bathing suits?  What were they supposed to be doing – sitting in front of PCs and pretending to be doing computer programming?  Things have reached a point where girls acting like girls is now considered demeaning to women.  Women can be filmed doing only intellectually rigorous activities; otherwise, the entire gender is demeaned.  How bizarre is that?

An article for Al.com, a statewide digital news outlet, helped draw attention and criticism to the video, slamming the sorority members for being “all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so Stepford Wives: College Edition.”

What is "aesthetically homogeneous"?  Is that liberal-speak for pretty?  Is this sorority being accused of discriminating against ugly girls, and if so, do we need legislation to protect the rights of homely women to be admitted to the sorority of their choice?

And what is "hyper-feminine"? I'm convinced the person who wrote this had no idea what she was saying.  Perhaps she was trying to say she wanted women to act more like men.

And lastly, there is the race canard.  Since when does the absence of minorities in a video show racism, in a country that is more than 70% white?  And why is it that black sororities and fraternities don't face the same criticism?

What this is all about is making white people afraid to be seen in public without a token minority companion.  It's a little like sharia law, which prohibits women from walking in public without a male relative.  It's also about criticizing women who act "too much" like women, and pushing them to act more like men.

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