Penn State frat member defends photos of nude, unconscious women as “satire”

Members of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity at Pennsylvania State University could face criminal charges over a Facebook page that included photos of naked, unconscious women. The page came to light when the police investigation was announced Tuesday.

The Facebook page had 144 members, including current students and alumni. That's a relatively large number of college students and recent graduates who knew the fraternity was posting nude photos of nonconsenting women for at least eight months and went along with it.

If you're wondering how something like that happens — and how 143 people, members and alumni, seemed to think it was a totally OK thing to do — an interview on Philadelphia magazine's website with someone who says he's a member of Kappa Delta Rho gives a pretty disturbing view into the fraternity's thought process.

In the interview, reporter Holly Otterbein presses the anonymous member on whether the group was inappropriate. (In an email to Vox, she said she "verified through a multi-step process that he is a student at Penn State, a member of KDR, and ... the person he said he was.")

His answer is revealing:

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