JESSE POWELL writes:

It appears very easy to get young men fired up by simply asking the question, regarding young college women who are promiscuous, “What do you guys think about all those sluts?” The women then respond, “Where do you get off calling me a slut!” You know, this is just a thought, but maybe the “Slut Walks” are an effort to diffuse growing condemnation of “sluts” among men. Maybe men are growing in their hostility towards promiscuous women and women are seeking to combat this with “slut pride,” so to speak. Maybe the “Slut Walks” are not a sign of growing cultural liberalism but are instead a reaction against growing cultural conservatism being expressed as hostility from men towards women.

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A.M. writes:

In response to Jesse Powell’s comment on the Slut Walks, he is off the mark. There is little of the ‘growing hostility towards promiscuous women’ among young men. To the extent that there is, it’s usually found among men who are persona non grata, who have no currency with the Sluts, so the criticism has no bite; with respect to the Sluts, they have no status, so the Sluts don’t much care what those men think.

Who does rile the Sluts? The Yale men of Zeta Psi, bearing a sign reading “We Love Yale Sluts.” And men like them. They are attractive and confident, and they sit atop their school’s social hierarchy. They have co-opted ‘sex-positive feminism’ to enjoy and humiliate Sluts as the opportunity arises. Sluts cannot stand this. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Men were supposed to reward their promiscuity with respect and understanding.

Also, keep in mind, the Sluts are not for instance, the peers of these men. The girls in sororities who go to mixers like “CEOs and Office Hos’ with the men of Zeta Psi don’t join the Slut Walks. The Sluts are campus feminists, and other activist and ‘alternative’ types. If you look at who comprises these Slut Walks, you won’t see much of your run-of-the-mill attractive blonde white girl, eg high status sorority girls. Not that this affects the legitimacy of the movement at all, but it’s important to understand who’s leading it – it’s usually not the belles of the ball.

Andrew L. writes:

I agree with A.M. on this point. Campus women are not monolithic. The “crunchy” majors, such as ethnic- or women-studies, theater, English, sociology, anthropology, and literature tend to be the ones who lead these aggrievement protests. The sorority girls, particularly from the elite sororities, which aggressively recruit the most attractive women, couldn’t care less. The overlap between those two groups is miniscule. The vast majority of women, in the middling middle, are merely trying to get by, going with the flow. A feminist protest here, an ambiguous hook-up there.

At elite colleges, no one is stupid. Again, campus men are fully aware of intersexual politics. Each sorority develops a reputation, and the campus men develop a repertoire of crude jokes to describe each. The shift Jesse Powell speaks of is basically complete. Men simply withhold the respect once given to all women only to those who are girlfriends. In a bizarrely accurate recreation of patriarchy, groups of men will give respect, even deference to women who are attached to one of their own. That respect may be nothing more than a “Hey Kelly, want a drink?”, but that is more than what the average woman receives. And who are these women who become girlfriends? Despite the TV shows, they’re generally not the slutty ones, but one of the elite who never needed to compete in that way. Being physically attractive has its privileges.

Women are somewhat aware of this, but the heavy propagandizing of the media and the school, and active deception by sexually-eager men prevent them from fully understanding this. The mistake women make is taking seriously what men say in public. Boys have had to censor their speech since they were five years old. We are very good at it. Again, at elite colleges, no one is stupid. We can mix the truth with politically-correct untruth as the situation requires. But still, actions reveal intent, and it’s clear men don’t care much for “sluts.” This is an affront to egalitarian-liberalism, so “slut-walks” commence to demand a leveling of the playing field. Of course, this is completely ignored by men and their girlfriends.

Finally, there is a eunuch minority that actually believes the feminist line. But women generally aren’t interested in them.

Alissa writes:

Not that this affects the legitimacy of the movement at all, but it’s important to understand who’s leading it – it’s usually not the belles of the ball.

Agreed. The higher status men are enjoying unlimited recreative sex unleashed by the sexual revolution from all of the women lower in status from themselves (this sounds a bit like the theories of PUA Roissy). I believe the [revolt] against college promiscuity, and sexual liberalism in general, is typically being lead by the religious virgin and chaste women, and their male peers, in college. The belles of the ball are also against promiscuity but it’s for their own different reasons. Their men are falling prey to the lower women and they have little attention and commitment from their high status male peers. Of course understand that “high status” may not mean what you and I understand by high status (e.g. wealth, power). High status men are defined as “master seducers” and the men women want the most.

  they have no status, so the Sluts don’t much care what those men think.

Disagree on this. Obviously they do. Why would they go crazy over a policeman advising about indecent dress? Why would they call out those men who don’t approve of their actions and beliefs “misogynists”? Why would they care about women who are not promiscuous and call them “prudes”?

 Jesse Powell writes:

I can’t claim to have inside knowledge about current college sexual mores but I am aware that there are some cultural conservative efforts going on at elite colleges in defiance against the “hook-up culture.”

A two-year old article from ABC News states “By the end of senior year, the average college student has had 6.9 hookups” and “Her work revealed that while 24 percent of the respondents had reported never having hooked up, 28 percent had more than 10 such casual sexual encounters.”

The Heritage Foundation , however, has put together a good report with many statistics and charts showing the numerous harms and disadvantages that women suffer from when they have had multiple sexual partners or initiated sex at an early age.

In response to the hook-up culture ,the Anscombe Society was founded at Princeton University in 2005.

The Anscombe Society’s mission statementt says “We aim to promote an environment that values the crucial role the intact, stable family plays in sustaining society; the definition of marriage as the exclusive, monogamous union of a man and a woman; its role as an institution which is necessary for the healthy family, and thus for a healthy society; a conception of feminism that encourages motherhood; and a chaste lifestyle which respects and appreciates human sexuality, relationships, and dignity. Therefore, we celebrate sex as unifying, beautiful, and joyful when shared in its proper context: that of marriage between a man and woman.”

Harvard University has a similar culturally conservative organization for students founded in 2006 that promotes chastity called the “True Love Revolution”.

Under its Platform Statements it says “The True Love Revolution believes that sex, when properly understood and experienced, is unifying and beautiful. We see abstinence as a sacrificial expression of love cemented in faithfulness to your future spouse. If experienced outside of marriage, we believe that sex loses its value, proving harmful to both the parties involved and to their relationship. We therefore embrace abstinence until marriage and fidelity within marriage.”

The “Love and Fidelity Network” was founded by one of the founders of the Anscombe Society at Princeton for the purpose of enabling the founding of pro-chastity culturally conservative organizations at colleges across the nation. The Love and Fidelity Network has a very good set of links to multiple resources for  college students who want to learn more about the importance and benefits of traditional family values.

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