"After Class, Skimpy Inequality"

College campuses are incredibly sexually charged. People are experimenting, they are less inhibited, and they are actively trying to go out and have fun. As a result of the growing promise of sexuality, women are repeatedly objectified Girls are expected to dress up, because they will be chosen. Like prizes, they are to be picked out. Frats decide who they are going to let in their doors, and they are more inclined to let in somewhat scantily clad girls as opposed to other, competing, males. I think college enables, and sometimes encourages, both sexes to conform to gender roles. Guys try to chase girls, and girls are to accept and enable such advances. Even still, as one University of Utah junior phrased it, “College isn’t supposed to adhere to the rules of the real world.” But then, it does, doesn’t it? Males are highly encouraged to begin courtships- by initiating dates, paying for dates, and simply offering to pay for dates.  They are expected to do the pursuing. I think the media is partly to blame for the injustice between the sexes, but it does not make getting into parties any easier if you happen to be dressed conservatively because you disagree with the practice. I don’t think enough people were offended by the Duke Halloween party not to go, and that the college atmosphere greatly affects students’ decisions on where and what they should be doing, especially after dark. Peer pressure, then, remains a huge factor in what college kids decide to do for fun, despite the insistence students relay to both their parents and to their friends. No one wants to be left out of the fun, and sometimes that means coming up with a way to get past the initial inspections at the doors.