The Alabama Sorority Recruitment Video Thing

[bart_calendar]

You may have heard about the "scandal" involving the Alpha Phi Alabama sorority recruitment video yesterday.If not, here's the summary. The sorority released a video online that contains members of the sorority dancing around wearing clothes clearly designed to show off their legs and boobs. Nearly all of them are bleach blondes. The only black

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[wherearethebees]

The way you described it ("clothes clearly designed to show off...") I was expecting something skimpier and more scandalous. But all I saw was a video of women in summer clothes with a bikini interlude. So that's an interesting note.

Also, based on the video alone, how do you know they're a bunch of idiots?

[bart_calendar]

I don't think geniuses go to the University of Alabama.

I was charactarizing the clothing the way SWJs were charactarizing the clothing to put things in context.

[franklanguage]

SWJ = ???

[theweaselking]

A typo of "SJW", which stands for "social justice warrior" - a pejorative term used by Men's Rights Activists, neo-Nazis, "race realists", and other kinds of gamergator to describe "anyone who isn't an asshole and thinks other people shouldn't be assholes either".

[gonzo21]

The problem for me is that SJW used to be quite a useful term to describe the people who were really far out on the fringes of progressive thinking who really did take things a little too far. Unhelpfully far. And It was useful to me to have a phrase that could be used for that.

But as you say, 'SJW' has now been hijacked by Men's Rights Activists and the far-right to characterise 'EVERYTHING WE DISAGREE WITH IS THE PRODUCT OF SJWS!'

So it's become an increasingly difficult term for me to use.

Although actually this backlash is exactly why I was so frustrated with the original extremist SJWs in the first place, because it always seemed inevitable to me that what they were doing would trigger exactly this sort of a backlash, and in the end they'd wind up doing a lot more harm to the cause than good.

[nightsurfing]

lol nice backtracking