Are you a part of the LAD Culture?

[Antilogic]

Aye the US beer pong loving, whooping, red cup plastic drinking dousch is a common theme in some of the more...trashier American films that make it over here.

It does seem to share similiar characteristics to this British phenomonon.
The particular problem that this report always comes back to is the problem with attitudes to the fairer sex. For instance:



(From the last point of the quoted section in the OP)

Anything like this happen? I can validate the groping, the last time i went to a nightclub the ladies loved grabbing Quackers. Whilst I was ok with it (Flattering) I imagine a woman wouldn't..Who knows?! Maybe if your a good looking male you can get away with that!

The ladies don't jump all over Antilogic, and he's not about to try coping a feel because he doesn't like drinks thrown in his face.

Depends on how common you consider it to be in the movies. It certainly isn't like everyone is part of it, at least at most universities. On the other hand, most universities have at least somewhat of a frat boy culture - how much varies widely. And even where the frats aren't as influential, some elements of that culture may be present outside of the frats. For example, you may have people who have nothing to do with organized fraternities or sororities playing beer pong and drinking from red Solo cups.

American universities do rather run the gamut on this, though. Washington and Lee down in Virginia has 90% of its students in fraternities or sororities; they probably aren't as rowdy as what you'd find at, say, Ohio University, but that's still going to leave a big frat boy culture. Then you have universities without any fraternities or sororities, and everything in between.

My university had about 40% of its students in fraternities or sororities, and while I didn't have much to do with them and few of my friends were in one, they certainly had a substantial influence on the weekend entertainment culture. How "laddish" they were, I'm not really sure, as I mostly avoided them. They did have heavy alcohol consumption; the other "laddish" traits probably varied by the fraternity. A couple of the more infamous ones had been de-certified shortly before or while I was there (although at least one of those continued to exist unofficially).

How to solve the issues? I'm not really sure; I'm not familiar enough with the mindset of those who are in that culture.

Definitely true.

If I had to guess without the benefit of data available, I think the frat boy culture is more heavy these days on the drinking and the social scene and not on the rampant hating, but it probably varies by school. At GT, we did have a frat infamously known as The Date-Rape Frat.

 

[Tahuti]

When discussing chemistry, physics, statistics, computer science et al it gets to a big lecture hall of smelly blokes right?

Actually, Computer Science classes at my university have a very significant amount of females. In fact, I believe that the AI and Information Science programs have an edge in female numbers, while Traditional Computer Science (which I do), have only a slight numerical advantage in males. And while many male CS students are quite unsocial and stereotypical, many are also quite socially skilled (like me!).

Likewise, our Physics classes have only a 5-15% numerical advantage in males. Idem dito for Maths. I'm not sure about Chemistry though.

We hardly have any jocks around here (at university at all), since the Dutch education system places rather strict academic requirements that usually filters them out, and Dutch universities also place a rather weak emphasis on sports, unlike the English speaking ones. So universities are places to avoid for them here.

I don't know about any LADS though. If you mean people who are binge drinking for the achievement of it, we have even a lot of women who are much like that as well.

 

[Quackers]

How do you empower someone to not do something? Have you been taking lessons from Peter Arnett?

As I said, if your in a big LADPack then the pressure to do something is so great that you may do something you don't want to do. If you're empowered, you have confidance you can go "No thats just wrong i'm not going to do that".
Anyway, if that explaination wasn't enough I was going to say how girls can be empowered to not accept this beheaviour.

 

[Borachio]

How do you empower someone to not do something? Have you been taking lessons from Peter Arnett?

This is, to me, an obscure reference.

Do you mean this?

the provincial capital Bến Tre: "'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,'

I'm still baffled though.

 

[filli_noctus]

I thought the lad culture is more associated with football, beer and pub activities, that it's a working class and not university thing, and only lightly misogynistic and homophobic.

The Labour government had a policy of encouraging the working class to go to university. And if you replace football with rugby, beer with brandy and pub with expensive restaurant it's a pretty good description of upper class institution such as the Bullingdon Club as well.
In my university days my social group was primarily composed of alternative types so I didn't see much of that behaviour. However on the rare occasions I ventured into the main body of the student union on a Friday night or the local clubs on non-specialist nights then it was most definitely in evidence.