An underground fraternity at UPenn may have set off a war with campus feminists this week, after a bawdy poem connected to their organization went out to incoming UPenn women students.
The questionably constructed poem (clearly not written by an English major), titled “Wild Wednesday,” and addressed to incoming freshmen women, politely instructed the “ladies” to identify themselves if they were sexually available at a party during UPenn’s first week.
“May we have your attention please/We’re looking for the fun ones/And say f—k off to a tease,” the poem read. “Wednesday nights will get you going/With bankers flowing all night/Tonight is your first showing/So please wear something tight.”
Campus feminists were outraged, calling the letter “sexist,” and a prime example of “rape culture.” They printed out multiple copies of the letters, emblazoned with the words “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE,” and pasted them across UPenn’s campus, ostensibly so that the authors could be shamed. But they also wound up marketing the event to a whole new set of interested parties.
The group of 10 women who printed the more than 600 fliers claimed they were just trying to save UPenn’s freshman girls from the crippling harassment they say they’ve encountered at the school.
The email itself appears to be the work of OZ, one of several “underground fraternities” at UPenn. The school doesn’t recognize or affiliate itself in any way with the underground fraternity’s actions, and warns incoming students to “beware the renegades,” many of which are remnants of fraternities and sororities that UPenn shut down for disciplinary reasons.
OZ, reportedly, sends the same email every year, though this is the first year campus feminists have, apparently, noticed how terrifying it is. Until now, the most famous social justice warrior-related OZ incident involved a near-race war over a hamburger, but the OZ member involved said that had more to do with him being drunk than him being the member of a UPenn secret society.
In 2013, a student newspaper obtained a stack of OZ’s secret emails, revealing that their school year kickoff party involves more than 170 bottles of vodka of varying quality—which might mean alcohol poisoning, and not rape culture, should be students’ primary concern.
