Response to After Class, Skimpy Equality

After reading this article I found myself thinking about my own personal experiences. Although I have just arrived as a freshman on a college campus I believe this article was also relevant to my high school experience. Similar to the article, in my experiences the men tend to be the host of the larger parties, however, I always found that women controlled the general theme of the party often times setting the tone by the way they dressed. Nobody told the girls to dress a certain way, but they usually still showed up wearing “slutty” clothing. That is what I find the most interesting about this article. Although the men from the fraternity are wrong for saying the women must dress a particular way in order to attend the party women still attended the party in slutty clothing. So who is to blame? I believe it is the women. If women feel as though attending such parties is detrimental to women’s equality then they should simply not attend them. Personally I feel as though men desire women more than women desire men. For that reason I agree with Jared Griffin in that women hold the power not the men. As I stated before, if women find it to be wrong or disgusting in anyway they should really blame themselves before they look to destroy such men’s fraternities. If they do so men would quickly give them the respect they say they are looking for.