About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon Valley Technorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party. The places change, but many of the players and the purpose remain the same. Like Julian Assange denouncing the nation-state, industry hotshots speak of these activities in a tone that is at once self-congratulatory and dismissive of criticism. Their behavior at these high-end parties is an extension of the progressiveness and open-mindedness—the audacity, if you will—that make founders think they can change the world. Few participants, however, have been willing to describe these scenes to me without a guarantee of anonymity. If this were just confined to personal lives it would be one thing.
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But lets look a little more closely at those parties. On the surface, it looks pretty equal: guys and girls having fun, drinking themselves silly, dancing as long as they can stand up or sometimes beyond. But many campus parties are arenas of dramatic gender inequality. This is pretty ironic, because during the day, there is probably no institution in America that is more gender equal.
My fixer, a year-old sophomore at the University of Southern California, texts me saying she no longer feels "safe" or "comfortable" with our plan to keep her anonymous, we'll call her "Cindy". We were going to crash a frat party, hang out, and see what happens. Just a quick anthropological jaunt into the crude and increasingly vexing mating rites of college Greeks. Getting access to frat parties as a young female is simple. The only requirements are a school ID card and a plucky attitude.