Really the closest you get to an abortion with a rape kit is with Plan B. Maybe. If it’s included. And that’s still not an abortion.

Can you find it? I want to read it!

Not quite though. The death penalty is murder and a lot of Christians approve of it. I'm sure the same logic is applied to abortion.

Of course exceptions are allowed. The Ten Commandments, the ones that say nothing about abortion, pretty explicitly state not to kill anyone, and yet Good Christians™ are usually right at home with the death penalty. See? A murder exemption! Because it’s not murder if you “deserve” it? I don’t know. We didn’t cover…

He seems to think that you know as soon as it happens that you are pregnant, and that you can therefore immediately have an abortion in the ER. It's not like knowing you are pregnant takes a month or two, or anything.

hold up I got something in my eye

Here's my question: if the new law applies to both sexes equally in the sense that gun-toting would be legal for both (which I'm assuming it does), and going off the stereotypical stranger/bushes rape these policy makers love so much, wouldn't that mean there will probably be more instances of gun-wielding bush…

look, Jez. We believe you. You don't have to go and imbed the video in your article, thereby spreading further a video you yourself even allude to being potentially alcohol-facilitated sexual assault. Even with her face blurred, I doubt the girl feels much better about it being reposted. It's alarming and triggering…

but isn't this literally the experience of living in a dorm, or with any roommates anywhere, for that matter?

at first I thought, "wait, wouldn't this be empowering if it was a woman photographing it?" And then I read more about the "art" and realized, no, it wouldn't be. Not if the hypothetical lady gave those same justifications for what they're doing... Ick. #byefelicia

ugh. This is so ugh. And I say that as a sorority member who saw other chapters on campus do this. I remember how creepy it was to be greeted at the door by a gaggle of Stepford Wives during recruitment week. WHERE IS YOUR PERSONALITY AND DIVERSITY. It was... Off putting. My chapter just kind of laughed at them.

for the record I agree with you, that opening up sororties would be a minimal improvement at best. It used to be like that and I don't think it was much better. Sorry if that wasn't clear

also not sure if this is worth taking into consideration... But the drinking age jumped from 18 to 21 at some point around there so maybe that's when sororties decided to just make all houses dry. Because with a 21 drinking age, most sisters couldn't legally drink. ???

^^ you sound like you're talking about a formal. And yes I agree that everyone went to formals cause they were awesome. But if this was a social thing that happened every weekend I just don't see it having a good turnout. Formal is special. I don't think this kind of event would translate well into an "alternative"…

hmm... Sorry! I might have my history confused. My mother graduated college in 1984 and tells me stories about the kegger her house threw every year, but how they were the tame sorority and other sororities had way more parties. Maybe it was chapter-by-chapter back then? Or campus by campus? Is that possible?

that's true, and we may have to grapple with that soon. I don't know I guess we'll see. But I can tell you that no sorority is gonna put it on the voting block until there's an uproar.

^^ YES thank you!! You said it better than I did. And THIS is why sororities got rid of it already: they saw the writing on the wall and that it wasn't sustainable. Fraternities have just been stubborn about it. And you're ifjt about it being all tradition. Anyone on the business/ legal side of it see it clear as day,…

Yeah, in fact sororities DID have alcohol in their houses into the 90s but as a group decided the ends disn't justify the means anymore (a stance I think the fraternities should take note of). It wasn't borne out of sexist bullshit so much as it was out of insurance liability statistics. Find the problem, remove the…

this isn't the decision of colleges though. It's the decision of the sororities to minimize risk by forbidding alcohol in the houses. Nobody ever said "OHHH GIRLS shouldn't have alcohol in their houses; they're ladies!" Of course they knew the frats would carry on but they can't control that. They did/ are doing what…

yeah, but then at least 2/3rds of the sorority can't go, or at least can't drink. Then almost everyone is expected to stay sober because they're underage. You and I both know that people are more likely to just skip that event and go somewhere they won't be carded, wherever that is. And somehow there's always a drunk…