However, I witnessed some pretty crazy things on saturday night most of which will go unmentioned but one thing in particular struck me. There was a freshman boy (lets call him Seth)who's older brother went here and a girl (lets call her Lily) who was telling him how she always wanted to call him by his brother's name so she was afraid to call him anything at all. After Lily made that comment Seth looked like he was about to cry and then went on to explain how he was sick of being compared to his brother, etc, etc upon hearing this Lily, who happens to be one of my close friends gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek and told him about how she has an older sister that she feels like she is also always compared to. They talked Seth calmed down and everything was fine until Lily turned around to see two girls dressed as "school girls" staring her down. The smaller of the two approached my friend and said something along the lines of "you just kissed him I can't believe you did that" yelling and accusing Lily (who has a boyfriend) of "flirting" with Seth who the girl had been "sleeping with the past 5 nights". Lily apologized and moved on with her night until she realized that the girls were staring and talking about her so she approached them to talk and the girl responded with "Girl's don't fight, so we aren't going to fight, but you're a bitch"
As an outsider this was a wow moment. I was curious to see how this whole thing was going to go down but then the girls dont fight comment was made and left lily in awe she is the kind of girl that would be ready to fight if she thought people were talking about her with no reason.
So, to be shut down and then called a bitch for attempting to cheer someone up she was needless to say, mildly furious.
This one little 5 minute interaction involved so many different ideas and stereotypes it was honestly, very surreal.
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