I was referencing Conan the Barbarian (the movie, not the short stories), but yeah, there was a Buffy episode like that too. Or maybe it was Angel, I forget which.
In any case, I absolutely agree that the activities reported were in poor taste and quite possibly reflective of some questionable attitudes. But I'm hesitant to draw strong conclusions from this sort of reporting, mainly because of base rate neglect: this doesn't tell us what the average Wall Street honcho gets up to when they're at home. It doesn't even tell us the average for that party. You get what you see: a general impression and a short list of lowlights. The impression doesn't surprise me much (one doesn't sneak into a fraternity party with a camera if one wants to paint it in a favorable light), and the examples aren't much better: I've been to plenty of parties with behavior as bad or worse. For example, there's the one anime con I've been to (once and nevermore)...
Well, I'm certainly aware of actual fraternity parties with drag being used to humiliate, hell our soccer team tried to make the freshman, and sophomores because when we were freshmen there was a newly created ban, dress in traditionally female clothes. And of course general misogyny and homophobia.
But you've been to a lot of parties where one of the main activities was to denigrate the gullible poor/voting public wrt shady financial stuff?
As far as the average guy's beliefs and behavior, it kinda does. In such societies the behavior of the top level says a lot about the social norms. I mean its not as good as a peer review study or a survey maybe, but fat chance getting evidence of that caliber in an legal manner.
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