https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/a-grown-woman-goes-undercover-at-a-frat-party
Interesting Commentary on the article can be found here: http://totalsororitymove.com/full-grown-adult-goes-undercover-at-frat-party-finds-absolutely-nothing/ and here: http://totalfratmove.com/heres-the-pathetic-story-of-a-pretentious-journalist-who-snuck-into-a-fraternity-party-looking-for-dirt-and-found-absolutely-nothing/
It’s a little sad that the “Total Frat/Sorority Move” commentators couldn’t simply and graciously accept a total victory, and instead felt compelled to attack the author’s self-mocking description of her own inaccurate expectations as if they were intended as factual journalism.
I, too, wondered how the author could claim to be merely 10 years older than the young women at the frat party, and yet to have experienced “late 90s” raves. However, public information makes this (barely) plausible: She graduated from UCLA in 2007, which means 10 years older than a current college student is more or less within range, and as a self-described “fast girl” from an arty family in LA, it’s possible that she sneaked into some rave at 14. And felt considerably more freaked out by that experience than by the frat party she crashed. Which is understandable, because she was 14 then and somewhere past 30 now.
What struck me as ludicrous about the article was her assumption that she could blend in wearing a dress she bought seven years ago that hadn’t worked then, either. None of the other women at the party would likely have been caught dead in such an outdated dress. Or that she would get attention from the boys just by showing up in her tight dress. In high school, in college, in life, unless you happen to be a Disney princess or Saorise Ronan in Brooklyn, if you want male attention, you have to go out and work for it.
The entire article was ludicrous:
An armed adult follows a bus full of college students to a private event at bar/nightclub and sneaks in uninvited. She then stands in the corner and wonders why nobody is talking to her. She then attempts to take pictures of people without consent.
TFM and TSM write for entertainment, you aren’t the target audience, so it’s difficult to say that they shouldn’t have wrote it that way. They aren’t journalists like this women attempts to be. This woman was hoping to find a party full of all the negative false stereotypes fraternities have, and she turned her article to a joke when she didn’t.
Much like you did in the remainder of your post?
“It’s a little sad that the “Total Frat/Sorority Move” commentators couldn’t simply and graciously accept a total victory, and instead felt compelled to attack the author’s self-mocking description of her own inaccurate expectations as if they were intended as factual journalism.”
There ain’t nothing gracious about TFM / TSM! They’re just sort of piggish themselves, and they perpetuate all the negative stereotypes.
This was the movie plot that was rejected.
Her reaction to the second article
Wikipedia says she was born about 1984, which makes JHS’s analysis accurate.
It was borderline pretentious
I’m kind of baffled that she was surprised. What did she expect to find? I went to fraternity parties as a college student (I’m about the same age as the journalist) and have broken up fraternity parties as an adult (res life, killing your fun) and they’re basically like any other party ever, with the exception that they are run by a group of young men who are in a social organization branded by Greek letters (as opposed to a social organization brought together by something else…?) This
describes pretty much every party in college, sponsored by fraternities or not, on- or off-campus. And to be frank, it describes a lot of post-college, early-twenty-something parties, too.
And honestly, I think this is an oversimplifcation. Many young women like sex and male attention, too. They wear the tight dresses and the uncomfortable shoes because they want some cute guy to look at them and dance with them and maybe buy them a drink and yes, maybe hook up at the end of the night. I’d also like to think that a lot of the young men just want to dance and get drunk with their brothers have a good time, and maybe they’re thinking about the women and maybe they aren’t. I mean, seriously, at only 30 I would expect the author to remember this - college wasn’t really that long ago for her!
And seriously, if you are going to try to slip into a fraternity party “undercover”, at least buy a new dress. A seven-year-old Guess dress is not the look.
Is this REALLY worthy of discussion here on CC?
I fear we are close to becoming yet another forum that, in the interest of free speech and social media -posts this kind of gossipy psuedo-journalism , which used to be found only on supermarket tabloids…
She expected to find an orgy, or a bunch of guys forcing drinks down unwilling women’s throats or something. Pointless.
I’m a bit disappointed in the article’s lack of discussion about the main courses and other culinary delights on offer at these parties. Large suckling pig platter, plates piled high with filet mignon, a few 20+ pound turkeys/ducks in delectable sauces, meat/mince pies, fancy cakes and desserts one would find at a reasonably decent 3 star+ NYC dining establishment, etc.
Could one have gotten a few supergulp sized containers of Pina Coladas or the like…alkie or non at the very least? 
Hey…the fraternity members all growing boys like I was(and still am!) and one cannot live by drinks and flirting alone.
Maybe things are different on the West Coast, but if a 14 year old in my area of NYC was freaked at attending a rave at 14, he/she’d be considered extremely sheltered by many of their same-aged peers. While I wasn’t into the rave scene, many junior high and HS classmates were and by 14…most were veterans of the rave scenes…sometimes for years.