The 1880

Janet and Kate just told John that he was gay. He didn’t know yet.

I ran across a couple articles from pretty predominant news sources today about a website being used by seven colleges called juicycampus.com. Apparently, people get angry when their sexual escapades are anonymously posted on a website. The schools want to close the website down and some students are crying “first amendment” and blah blah blah.

Well since there was such a ruckus happening about this site I decided to visit it. I sat for almost three minutes while the relatively simple and unorganized site came up. It was a long time to wait for very little pay-off. It is mostly short rants about whose sorority/frat/cult is going to whoop someone else’s similarly boastful organization. That and accusations of people being gay. Now these are the two reasons this website will never work at Emerson. The sorori-frats aren’t rivals (and who would really care if they were) and outing someone is like accusing someone of being hipster at this school. It’s usually answered with a “yeah, duh!”

But if you want to kill a few minutes and don’t mind waiting for an oddly long time for it to load, check out the website, if only to wonder at how stupid and shallow other college students can be. As for all the gay bashing, methinks the site doth protest too much…

MSNBC article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23211511

Site itself: www.juicycampus.com