Gender Stereotypes In The Fraternity Subculture

Kaitlin M. Boyle ran a study in the pursuit of explaining why certain men gravitate towards high-risk fraternities and how being a member in this fraternity subculture enforces hostility and abuse toward women. Boyle uses a social psychological approach to compare the individual attitudes, which is the fraternity subculture and their behaviors toward women. Many rapes happen in a fraternity house, usually after a party or an athletic event. Most of the men use myths to justify the rape accusation, blaming the women in wanting to obtain revenge from the alleged attacker. Unfortunately, many of these behaviors’ and attitudes towards rape are extremely common in the fraternity subculture. Researchers have found that men who are in fraternities