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Welcome to the female dating strategy podcast, the meanest, people only podcast on the internet.

I'm Rope.

And I'm Savannah.

And it'll let us out again this week.

But we have a guest here, Professor Jana Matthews from Rollins College, author of the book

The Benefits of Friends Inside the Complicated World of Today's Sororities and Fraternities.

And I have to say, how I found you was I found, I was reading a slate article about the

unequal gender ratios of parties at fraternities.

And as a person who wasn't in a sorority, but went to a lot of fraternity parties,

like, I never clicked together that that's what was happening.

So like, when I read that, I was like, oh, that's why there was always like a bunch of women

there and like no men.

And there was a discussion in this article about the changing demographics of campus because, as we've said

here, a lot of men are just not going to school, their needs. They're not in education,

employment, or training. So the gender ratios of campus has started to get really, really skewed.

So, like, just kind of researching you and actually looking through your book, I was like,

oh, this is actually research on what's happening on campus with sororities and fraternities and how that's changing the gender dynamics. And it was

really, really fascinating because there's a lot of like dynamics that if you're not inside of

that world, you may not know about because like clearly they very closely guard a lot of the

information. But also because like dating on campus, even if you're not or if you're in a sorority or not is like hard

mode so I was really interested in anybody who because we talk about this like it is the one place

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