Recruitment video for Alabama sorority taken down in wake of criticism

However the group have decided to pull the footage.

Since then, Alpha Phi has taken down the video, plus their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. It’s still visible on YouTube where other users have uploaded the now-deleted video. “They filmed the women of their sorority”.

Invoking the controversy over questions in the GOP presidential debate about Donald Trump’s history of misogynist insults, Bailey wrote that the Alpha Phi women were only hurting any feminist cause. The University of Alabama chapter, which has 72 members, and the national chapter did not respond to requests for comment by NBC News. In a good portion of the video, the students are wearing small bikinis, partying on the balcony of their sorority house, or just seen from the waist-down.

“Local site AL.com slammed the video in an opinion column titled, “‘Bama sorority video worse for women than Donald Trump”. “It’s all so… unempowering”, she writes.

To the incoming PNMs, this video has a clear sales pitch: beauty, sexuality, and a specific look above all. “Sadly, commodities don’t tend to command much respect”, Bailey continued. They were showing themselves having fun.

Another said: ‘I thought it would not be that bad. Who are they recruiting?

Bailey also comments upon the video’s lack of diversity at a school where 12-percent of their students are African American. Not enough thought was put into production of this video. Did they think they were selling a respectable set of sorority chapter ideals?

Alpha Phi also seems to have shut down most of its overall Web presence.

An excerpt from the Alpha Phi Alabama sorority website follows.

Tech Insider has reached out to Alpha Phi and we’ll update if we hear back.

Alpha Phi now stands as the fourth-oldest sorority in the country, with some distinguished alumni, like first female treasurer of the United States.

Some have condemned Bailey, the writer of the op-ed, for being a hyopcrite as she runs a fashion and lifestyle blog.