Frat hazing gay
On a cold, stormy September night in 2018, my 14 fraternity pledge brothers and I received this ambiguous text from one of our pledge masters:
“Tonight’s education meeting is canceled. At 11pm, you will all load into three of your cars and drive to the destination I send you. Transport a first aid kit, five jugs of rain, three shovels, and a triangular-shaped candle. Dress in all black.”
My mind raced with questions. What could this mean?
An hour later, my palms choked the steering wheel of my Ford pickup truck as I drove from our fraternity house at the University of Southern California toward an unnamed deal with in Manhattan Beach. In the car with me were four of my pledge brothers.
“It’s got to be beach-related,” said a brother from the endorse seat, his voice barely audible over the rain pounding on my windshield.
“Maybe it’s a dwelling party,” another suggested.
“It’s definitely not a house party,” the one in the passenger seat countered. “We’re getting hazed tonight, boys!”
A knot of anxiety tightened in my stomach. This moment, shrouded in uncertainty, mirrored the complex feelings I’d been wrestling with since joining the fraternity three weeks earlier. As t
Homosexual hazing rituals in a heteromasculine context
Tuesday night, Jane Ward of the University of California, Riverside had over 100 people close their eyes to dream sorority sisters pouring chocolate syrup on one another and demanding the unused pledges to lick it off everyone else. At her talk, “Haze Him! White Heteromasculinity, Anal Resilience and The Erotic Spectacle of Repulsion”, Ward juxtaposed this image with the same scene only with males to demonstrate how sexual fluidity is much more naturalized among women.
Ward’s guide “Not Gay: Sex between Straight Light Men” was published last July, and Tuesday night’s discuss was an prolongation of the topics covered in the work.
At the speak, Ward discussed the homosexual contact between straight white males as a part of hazing rituals and how it affects their heteromasculinity. Heteromasculinity is the social and cultural pressure that in order to conform and to reaffirm their masculinity, males must fit a certain physical and sexual mold.
“Hazing is not simply a practice, it is also a heteroerotic trope,” Ward said. “I wanted to ask where unbent, white men in the dominant cultures fit into these incongruent sex apply
Why frat boys like hazing, if they live through it
Naked, I stood shivering among my frostbitten pledge brothers on a February night.
"Drink! Drink! Drink!" the fraternity brothers chanted, warm in winter coats, forcing me to consume my 15th beer.
The entire fraternity cheered me on to run in bare, bloodied feet on snow and ice and then climb into a trash can filled with vomit and other bodily fluids.
Some call this hazing. We called it fun.
Need a break? Compete the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.Each year, when another pledge is killed in a hazing incident, everyone asks: "How could this happen?" The question is coming up again after a Pennsylvania district attorney charged eight fraternity brothers with involuntary manslaughter in the hazing death of Timothy Piazza, 19, at Pennsylvania State University on Feb. 2. The fraternity he was pledging, Beta Theta Pi, is also being criminally charged.
Having been through my have torturous hazing, I think that is the wrong question. I'd ask why it doesn’t take place more often. As a pledge, I endured grizzly, military-style lineups, hazardous levels of starvation, sleep deprivation and physical endurance tests. We were forced to con
A Fraternity Brother Speaks Out
By: Colin Schlank
I cannot count how many times I have asked the following question amidst the past four years of my life; what can I do to stop hazing? This single question has left me bewildered, angry, disillusioned, and ultimately inspired to make a difference in the nature. I hope that by sharing with you my story, you too will be inspired to make an impact in your community.
My name is Colin, and I am currently a graduate student at the University of Connecticut. I am studying secondary education and history and am extremely excited for my future after college. Four years ago, during the spring semester of my freshman year at UConn, I made the conclusion to pledge a well-known fraternity. Favor most other students who choose to join a Greek organization, I was seeking to join new people and enrich my college experience. Though my fraternity experience has had many elevated and low points, I am forever grateful that I made the preference to join.
I began to notice hazing practices within my fraternity on the very first darkness I became a part of it. On that evening, brothers from the chapter gathered my pledge class in the parking lot of our on-campus ho