My case is how we can promote a safe environment for women at fraternity parties. From the fraternity brothers themselves to the circumstances of the parties, I explore how negative they are and how to fix it. The debate here is about the ratio system. Is the ratio system beneficial or malignant to women? Is it a system that is misogynistic or misandrist? Is it something that ensures safety or helps rapists rape. I researched the psychology of campus rape, from the perspective of what it does to the victim, and the people around him or her, although I focused on attacks on women in my paper. There are a lot of online sources talking about fraternity brothers and the ratios, but most are not academic and are opinion pieces instead. Because of this, I focused a lot on interviews by fraternity brothers, girls who have been harrassed or attacked, and anyone with an opinion on ratios. One of the online sources I did use is a Reddit page by students at the University of Pennsylvania. This thread is by many students with different opinions.
- “r/UPenn - Frat Party Ratio.” Reddit, www.reddit.com/r/UPenn/comments/4y4sod/frat_party_ratio/.
If your FRAME for analysis involved "objectification" (Nussbaum) or "context-specific" "processes"(Armstrong & Hamilton et. al. and Patricia Yancey Martin) that encourage campus sexual assault, then your CASE would simply be "ratio" itself, which functions both as a means of objectifying the women who are brought to fraternity parties AND as a context-specific process that increases the likelihood of campus sexual assault at fraternity parties.
ReplyDeleteReading over your most recent draft, I am a little concerned that these academic sources seem to have dropped out of your paper and you are trying to draw your "framing" language from interviews and Reddit posts.