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First years are a target for ‘seal clubbing’

Seal clubbing is a favourite pass time for many Rhodes males, but this term and what it means, in a university context, is not familiar to the majority of first year girls.
We come to university with a combination of butterflies in our stomach and huge toothy grins on our faces. We come excited to live the fun university life of endless entertainment and joining student unions for more partying and unforgettable times. We hope to meet our knights in shining armour. However this fairytale is momentarily shattered when we find that our knights are actually seal clubbers. Warning seal clubbers in on the prowl!
Seal clubbing is when older male students “prey” on first year girls, deliberately targeting them with the goal of sleeping with them. This is a disgusting trend that has manifested and continues to be a ‘hobby’ for male students in universities. After these sugar daddies have received what they want from the unsuspecting girls they subsequently dump them. This atrocious behaviour is incredibly worrying and distasteful. I find it incredibly offensive as a woman to have something like this actually being encouraged and made a joke of when it is not a light matter at all.
On the site www.confessionsofacouchpotatoe.blogspot.com seal clubbing is addressed where it is mentioned that at university men are only concerned about “spreading their seeds”. As frustrating and angering as this is, it is the unfortunate truth. I think that it is disheartening for first year girls, not because they are (supposedly) naive but because one would hope that men had morals and would not find it fun to use girls. I feel that this much hyped about seal clubbing is Neanderthal-like behaviour and the fact that it has become the norm only perpetuates it, meaning that more men will find it ok to partake in this cult.
Are men so afraid of commitment that they would rather ‘score a chick for a night’, than be in a relationship? Do they feel so inadequate that they would target girls who are new to university because they know they stand no chance with girls in second and third year? Can it be said that it is some sort of sick ego booster that only the male specie can understand?
I cannot believe how appalling behaviour like this is encouraged and congratulated when the ‘seeds have been spread’. First years then fall victim to these ‘hot guys’ who are after one thing. They fall victim to this because they are not told of it until it is too late and those who do know about it before they come to university, do not consider that the guys that have swept them off their feet would ever be involved in seal clubbing.
I cannot even begin to understand why these guys feel it an urge or duty to specifically aim for first years. Is there satisfaction in knowing that you have just used someone so that you can brag to the boys that you have more notches on the post? The scary thing is that this practise (which is what seal clubbing is) is an actual group with seal club branded t-shirts, as if it is normal thing to do. How sickening! Is this really how young males want to be perceived and is this the reputation they want to uphold? What is wrong with some people, that they feel it their role to commit such immoral and horrendous behaviour. How can these men not ashamed of their behaviour. Who knows what this behaviour will lead to? If people are accepting of this conduct then what other offensive practises are going to be accepted. I believe that first year girls must make themselves more aware of seal clubbing, but with that said it may well be difficult to tell a genuine guy from a seal clubber. If only these men had the tables turned on them and they could be used and left in a lurch so that they could feel what it is like to be made a fool of.
Two wrongs may not make a right but revenge would be sweet for those who have been wronged!