OpEd: 'For the young people watching, Greek life is romanticized the way TV tends to do with everything.'
throw a party and nobody comes. They’ve been banned from the frats after Kimberly turns in Theta for cheating to keep her spot at Essex, but they’re trying to take their exile in stride. Bela makes a funny but honest point about the reality for many women seeking to have fun in college: “Now we don’t have to wait in some long lines freezing our asses off hoping some power-hungry douchebags will let us in.
In a complete turn of events, however, the failure of the party makes the girls decide their social lives cannot exist without the fraternity parties; the episode ends with the group organizing a fundraiser to keep Theta’s “good” status on campus. The girls raise $11,000 for climate change, and in return get to attend frat parties again .
That’s not to say the portrayals are all positive, or that they don’t draw attention to the exploitation in Greek life.
Comically, as the girls enter a dingy frat basement in season 1, completely overdressed, Whitney gushes, “I can’t believe we got in here.” It’s a funny commentary on the way young women are forced to play into fraternity power dynamics in order to enjoy themselves on campus. They are expected to go along with traditions and treatment that sometimes even compromise their safety.
. The frats at Essex, while shown engaging in bad behavior, are simultaneously presented as fantasy expectations of college social life, when at their best, frats usually aren’t that fun and at their worst can be dangerous.
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