Rushing Frats

As a social experiment, I once tried rushing fraternities. I did the sororities, as I guessed I had little in common with them. I grew up abused the way boys are typically abused. I was pressured into activities that are based in science and athleticism, pulled away from the arts, classic corporal, etc. This home abuse translated to school bullying, directly by males but complete ostracisation from any female group. As a result, If someone hurt me I was far more likely to hit them than to psychologically torture them. A violent angry emotionally suppressed lonely hyper logical die hard atheist (basically an insel) was on the road to no where – until – she was saved by the patience of an emotionally intelligent man. I didn’t talk the first month, I didn’t trust anyone, but my social anxiety evaporated and soon we were naturals at doing the best friend thing. I knew wanted to be friends with men.

The fraternities didn’t listen to my reasoning. My first argument was – “I am a boy, you can’t prove I’m not” ( I knew appealing to their sensitivity towards gender fluidity would be fruitless, I don’t know why anyone ever tried to convince me you could fight bullshit with logical prowess, I was so young) (they never asked if I attended their university, if they wanted to disqualify me that would’ve been the easiest way). Next, I thought this one would at least trigger an interesting discussion: I explained how they’re on the decline, too many claims of date rape, women feel objectified by the culture. The segregation between the genders is an archaic concept that implies the genders have different innate cognitive characteristics beyond the ones as a result of societal rearing… If frats and sororities didn’t discriminate based on gender they would adopt women who share similar mentalities with them, they would grow sympathetic to women on a whole and find more value in befriending them than courting them – greek culture would survive. No. The athletic fraternities dragged me out, the rest were nice enough (smart enough) to let me rush, but I didn’t get any bids.

I supposed their arguments were:

One:
In their head it was just too improbable that the very thing they collectively work together to fuck, now wants to join the hive and and help them fuck her from within, an auroborous logic fallacy, they would consume themselves and die. (Leans too far on the side of victim mentality imposed by the more brutish side of third wave feminism, but the imagery makes it worth writing)

Two:
Sexual antagonism is fun. (It is.) It’s the basis for evolution. Fighting over the approval of the most hyper-selective females, each enters the arena with sense of humor being like the peacock’s tail, demonic prose as the the hermit crab’s oversized claw, a house being the(avian specie’s) nest …. And the woman get’s to judge the blood bath that is bird v crab. Desegregating fraternities would crumble the foundations of natural selection. What would drive us forward?