Via The Blaze:
The University of Alabama’s Alpha Phi sorority is in the middle of a national controversy after the women’s recruitment video went viral because of its reported lack of diversity and clothing.
The recruitment video, the original of which has been removed from YouTube and Alpha Phi’s website but can still be found online, is around five-minutes long and features a group of mostly white women laughing and dancing in the sorority house, jumping in water and playing on the school’s football field. There are no words to the video, only short clips set to the song “Strangers” by Seven Lions.”
Writer A.L. Bailey called out the video in an opinion piece for Al.com titled, “‘Bama sorority video worse for women than Donald Trump.”
“It’s a parade of white girls and blonde hair dye, coordinated clothing, bikinis and daisy dukes, glitter and kisses, bouncing bodies, euphoric hand-holding and hugging, gratuitous booty shots, and matching aviator sunglasses,” Bailey wrote. “It’s all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so Stepford Wives: College Edition. It’s all so … unempowering.”
“[T]hese young women, with all their flouncing and hair-flipping, are making it so terribly difficult for anyone to take them seriously, now or in the future,” Bailey wrote. “The video lacks any mention of core ideals or service and philanthropy efforts. It lacks substance but boasts bodies. It’s the kind of thing that subconsciously educates young men on how to perceive, and subsequently treat, women in their lives. It’s the kind of thing I never want my young daughters to see or emulate.”
Kicker?
The woman who wrote the AL.com article criticizing the ‘flouncing’ and the ‘bouncing’ called herself ‘The Fashionista’ and ran a fashion website with concentration on nice looking women, make up and clothes.
Liberal, heal thyself…