Faternity And Rape Culture

College fraternities have been an important and ever popular element in American culture. Many male college students participate in fraternities, but the horror of fraternities is not located within the number of students participating, but within what goes on inside frat houses. Fraternities are an epicenter for negative behavior such as misogyny and rape culture. Many people are blind to the true consequences fraternities present. Misogyny and rape culture bring forth problems in and out of the frat house. Fraternities are negatively influencing America and are promoting misogyny and rape culture.
A deep-rooted hatred for woman can sprout from anywhere; including the place people would least suspect it: a college fraternity. Fraternity
Boys who are misogynistic typically never get over it, they continue to be misogynistic in the work place. Misogyny is the main cause of the wage gap in the United States. Misogyny is the reason the phrase “boys will be boys” is an acceptable excuse for how inappropriately some men act. College fraternities and their so-called “bro humor” fuel the fire that makes people believe casting inappropriate behavior off normal male behavior and is the reason why misogyny is such an ever-present problem in
Fraternities are most likely never going to end but there are ways we could prevent misogyny and rape on college campuses. Independent and off-campuses fraternity houses should not be allowed because they are considered private property and leave universities no way of controlling their students and what goes on inside the house. If independent and off-campus fraternity houses are not able to be stopped, the United States Congress needs to develop new laws and amendments to The Constitution to allow university officials to intervene in and investigate crimes that occur within these off-campus houses. Another way to prevent rape is to follow through with protocol and punishments for sexual assault on and off campuses. A prime example of the United States’ government failing to do so is the Brock Turner case. Turner was a swimmer at Stanford University. He was convicted or rape and sentenced to only six months in prison. To make matters worse, Turner was released from prison after serving only three months of his small six-month sentence. Brock Turner was twenty-one and could have received an average sentence for sex offenders, which is approximately 9.8 years but the United States government did not take the proper steps in convicting an investigating the