Sorority Rush Viral Videos: Celebration Confuses Female Beauty with Sexual Desirability

Dostoevsky famously put the enigmatic proposition “beauty will save the world” into the pages of The Idiot. With college sorority-rush season just wrapping up, parts of the MAGA movement appear determined to put Dostoevsky’s claim to the test.

A video from the University of North Carolina Wilmington chapter of Alpha Phi International Women’s Fraternity has gone viral for its young women dancing: hair flips, short skirts, and all. Similar videos from Arizona State University’s Alpha Phi chapter have received similar attention, praised for showcasing how these young women are “celebrating Truth, Patriotism, and their Beauty once again.”

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Raleigh Adams is a recent graduate of Yale Divinity School. Her work has appeared in the Front Porch Republic, VoegelinView, and The Dispatch.

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Dostoevsky famously put the enigmatic proposition “beauty will save the world” into the pages of The Idiot. With college sorority-rush season just wrapping up, parts of the MAGA movement appear determined to put Dostoevsky’s claim to the test.

A video from the University of North Carolina Wilmington chapter of Alpha Phi International Women’s Fraternity has gone viral for its young women dancing: hair flips, short skirts, and all. Similar videos from Arizona State University’s Alpha Phi chapter have received similar attention, praised for showcasing how these young women are “celebrating Truth, Patriotism, and their Beauty once again.”