What it's like to be a Christian during Frosh Week.

So I came across this post from CBC news a few minutes ago, and was a little shocked.  apparently, for the beginning of frosh week which I missed, SMU leaders chanted a very racy, disgusting chant about the guys wanting to have un-concentual sex with under age girls. In fact, the girls were chanting this too.  I am a little grossed out that they made a chant about rape.  I just scream and ask if these girls are even aware of what they are saying.  They are actually promoting violence against themselves.  Not just sex, but rape.  And let's be honest, although it is NEVER the victims fault in a rape or sexual assault, what kind of image and ideas are we giving boys by chanting that we want them to come and have sex with us?  Again, I am not victim blaming, but I'm being real.  So many people are so unsure of what sexual assault is, and so if we're screaming at the top of our lungs to come rape us, then when they do, the whole thing just becomes one big mess.  I know this wasn't made this year, but seriously, why was it even made, and in good conscious, why was it not revised, removed or replaced?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/09/04/ns-smu-chant-underage-sex.html

This combined with the live onstage porno featuring a hypnotist, and bingo where you win condoms tonight has made it for an interesting frosh week at SMU.  I never heard this chant until now because I missed out on turn burn, however, at the hypnotist, they did another chant that was a whole pile of words that were meant to sound like "masturbation", "eat her out", and a whole bunch of other sexual words that I can't even remember.  Not to say that I didn't have a good time laughing at the hypnotist show, but there were scenes that I just couldn't watch because I was so disgusted.  It was honestly like watching live porn.. When you're sitting in the audience watching people give hardcore blow jobs to the air, and eating girls out in their state of hypnosis, it's just a little bit too much. Some scenes crossed the line of "funny" and became completely degrading and disgusting.

I came to SMU because I love this school.  It's definitely one of the best in my opinion and offers a lot for me, however, as a Christian, and a girl who has no tolerance for violence against women or anyone, I definitely would have found it hard to chant these degrading sexual things because that's just not who I am. Just like I'm not going to go to dirty bingo tonight and win condoms because I don't have sex.  I don't know why it is necessary for every aspect of frosh week to revolve around sex.  I'd love to be able to take part in my frosh week chants, but I can't, because they disgust me. And you know what?  Even though this article is about SMU, I'm damn sure they aren't the only university who has something like this, in act, I'm sure there are worse things happening.

I think that universities need to focus more on all inclusive frosh week activities (and yes, i know they include all ages) but when I say all inclusive, I mean, why does everything have to be a big sex rave? Why does every chant have to imply that we are horny sex machines all looking for somebody to get laid with? Seriously.... I KNOW that I am not the only person who feels this way, but am I the only one who is willing to come right out and say it?

Plain and simple: I want to have fun without sexually objectifying myself and degrading women like myself and my friends. Chants and activities need to be less about SEX, and more about other things.  I'm not a prude, I don't wear a chastity belt, I don't run around yelling sex is a sin, I just think that university shouldn't be all about sexually objectifying ourselves.