Harvard’s Spee Club is throwing a party on Saturday. It sent out invitations via email on Wednesday morning, but by Thursday night, the all-male “final club” was tripping over itself to apologize.
Its sin? Making the party sound fun.
The Crimson reports the club’s invitation featured “an image, which appeared to be drawn, and a link to a video hosted on YouTube”:
The drawing, titled “Playbear,” depicted a bear wearing a robe, pants, and hat, with its arm around a woman dressed in tights and a sleeveless top. The email linked to a video that included multiple clips of women wearing underwear and male and female models walking a runway, as well as a clip from the song “Stay the Night.” The video, which was previously public on YouTube, was made private and then removed Thursday evening, after it prompted criticism from students and other social club members.
The sender of the invitation – which doesn’t appear to have surfaced online – said Spee will work with the women’s final clubs on future social invitations, which is fine, but this is just a laughable reaction:
Members of Our Harvard Can Do Better, a student group that advocates for changes to Harvard’s handling of sexual assault, also criticized the invitation in a statement, writing that its tone reflects “deep power imbalances.”
Another student called the invitation an example of the “hypersexualized” portrayal of women in the elite world of final clubs.
Hypersexualization on campus certainly is a problem – students are regularly subjected to vaginas in their faces and mouths, vibrators in their crotches and full nudes that “empower” women.
Read the Crimson story – and send us the invitation if you got one.
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