Note to Frat Houses: Make Sure Your Sex Dolls are Caucasian in Frat Christmas Card Pictures

This advice comes via Greg Piper at the College Fix.

Writes Piper:

It’s debatable whether a sex doll of any ethnicity should be in a Christmas photo, but Phi Delta Theta is in trouble for using a “dark-skinned” one in their Christmas card.

The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that the frat president has already apologized for the photo, posted to the frat’s Facebook page, and explaining to the “African Diaspora” campus group UMOJA that “the doll was a Beyoncé sex toy originally meant as a gag gift at the group’s Secret Santa event.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian adds:

 “The inclusion of a racially and sexually charged object in such a flagrant fashion displays a serious and immediate need for repercussions that reflect the severity of this misogynistic, racist offense,” a joint statement issued by the 5B — the five umbrella coalitions for minority groups on campus — and the Penn Consortium for Undergraduate Women said. "We—UMOJA, APSC, UMC, Latin@ Coalition, Lambda Alliance, and PCUW—firmly believe that when an event like this marginalizes one of our communities, it marginalizes us all." 

“What particularly concerns us is how flippant this deeply misogynistic and racist choice seems to have been,” an addendum from the PCUW read. 

Piper continues:

Like many campus activists responding to claimed misogyny, these groups have a complete agenda for redress:

UMOJA specifically called for the chapter to be fined and its rush activities to be suspended until “a council of peers deem it acceptable to resume activity after and instituted education process.” Further, the group urged the Office of Student Affairs/Fraternity and Sorority Life to enforce “mandatory cultural competency courses for all members to resume activity…” and for the fraternity’s national organization to be notified.

Of course, this frat stuff is goofy, but so what? Are we now to call out America's university version of the Schutzstaffel to enforce against this stuff? What happened to live and let live?

I happen to think UMOJA's  advocacy of "student mobilization around campus climate concerns," is based on dangerous and bad science. Should they be fined and suspended because of this advocacy? Of course, not. I would be willing to debate them anytime, but I would never attempt to stop them from expressing their views or demand that they be fined, etc. for expressing any views.

-RW