Roll Tide-ettes! Bama Sorority Video Knots Nation's Panties!

[Riptide]

In a scene reminiscent of Legally Blonde, a sorority recruitment video beckons us into its bleached-blonde, white-skinned universe and presents it as a place full of beauty and void of substance. But now that sorority is distancing itself from the video after an online backlash.

The University of Alabama’s Alpha Phi chapter presumably wanted prospective sorority members to think its members are the coolest, prettiest, most sisterly girls on campus. To get the message across, the sorority created the video below for its upcoming bid day.



It quickly received a swath of negative attention, prompting the chapter to take down the video, and make its Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts all private. But before it was taken down, the video was reposted by others so that this tampon-commercial-on-steroids could live on.

Alabama sorority's recruitment video sparks national outrage

 

[Gator]

Didn't this happen like a month ago?

It was ridiculous then, and it's ridiculous now. Who cares if this is how they want to portray themselves?

 

[SnarkShark]

I don't get it. What's the problem? Too white?

 

[mpcincal]

I don't get it. What's the problem? Too white?

Apparently; either that or people really got offended by the girls showing off their bikini tops near the end of the video. People again making a hobby out of being offended.

 

[Vombatus]

The prison warden should force Jared to watch that nonstop for four years. Especially the Popsicle parts.

 

[britwrit]

Boil The Stepford Wives down to four minutes, throw in a little Leni Riefenstahl white Aryan goddesses, and gosh darn it if we don't have a recruiting video.

 

[User 4332]

Social justice warriors - never not offended.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Wait a minute. People are actually "outraged" by this? They aren't just making fun of them?

 

[User 4332]

Apparently some are, yes. Here's the column that cranked up the outrage machine:

'Bama sorority video worse for women than Donald Trump

 

[Vombatus]

Apparently some are, yes. Here's the column that cranked up the outrage machine:

'Bama sorority video worse for women than Donald Trump

So, someone's #hottake provoked the **** to hit the fan?

 

[User 4332]

So, someone's #hottake provoked the **** to hit the fan?

That about sums it up. Oh, and some Alabama-based fashion writer with the same initials is pissed because people think she wrote it:

OTHER AL Bailey: No, I didn't write Alpha Phi column

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This story is so old that some of these broads are grandparents now.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Can we please, PLEASE, stop writing these "PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET ARE OUTRAGED!!" stories?

It's already the laziest type of reporting, and it's fast becoming one of the most irresponsible, too.

 

[Steak Snabler]

It's been out there so long that even the parodies are old news:

 

[MisterCreosote]

I love how the school went out of its way to mention that 25 (!) of the 2,400 sorority recruits were black.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Can we please, PLEASE, stop writing these "PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET ARE OUTRAGED!!" stories?

It's already the laziest type of reporting, and it's fast becoming one of the most irresponsible, too.

You were all for it when the frat bros at ODU hung their banners.

P.S. That said, you're right. We should stop writing these stories.

 

[Dick Whitman]

One thing that makes me a little uneasy about the criticism I see is that it's like these women are being blamed for being pretty. It reminds me of when people say they don't want gays "shoving it in their face."

I guess it would be OK if a bunch of heifers made the same video?

This is what they look like.

 

[MisterCreosote]

You were all for it when the frat bros at ODU hung their banners.

No, I wasn't. I was all for the school telling them to grow up.

This, on the other hand, is as innocuous as it gets. Pretty girls are pretty. BFD.

Save the outrage for the blatantly racist-themed Halloween party - it's only a month and a half away.

 

[Dick Whitman]

This, on the other hand, is as innocuous as it gets. Pretty girls are pretty. BFD.

And, like I said, this seems to be driving it.

"Look at them, rubbing their prettiness in our face!"

If whatever Alabama's two-tons-of-fun sorority is made this same video, I have no doubt that the #hottakes would be about their inspirational confidence and "positive body image" promotion.

 

[Chef2]

Would.