Crown Princess Amalia will not become a member of the Amsterdam Student Corps (ASC) for the time being. That she announced through the RVD that a membership is ‘for the time being’ not possible was news, because many people thought that she would become a member. This is because her father, grandmother and great-grandmother had all been members of Minerva in Leiden and it was expected that Amalia – although she broke with the past by studying in Amsterdam – would maintain the family tradition by choosing the corps.
Anyway, except for a single Orange customer, nobody cares if the princess joins the corps. Just like nobody finds it interesting what exactly she will study (PPLE), what she will do afterwards (two years abroad), who her boyfriend is and where she will live in September (in a student house on the Singel in Amsterdam, owned of the Dreesmann family, friends of her parents and neighbors in Greece. The house has five floors, the princess occupies the fifth (with roof terrace. The property is said to cost her father 15 thousand euros a month.)
Who cares.
But recently, women were described by male members of ASC at a “gentlemen’s dinner” as “nothing and nothing more than a whore” whose necks they would rather break “and stick their dick in.” A De Sade-esque intention that must of course be nuanced – it was not the intention that the texts of the party performers would end up on the socials and in the newspaper, that would only lead to misunderstandings.
Nothing new under the sun, by the way, that’s how the corps has been talking ever since old Juul joined – no one cared. But the past is no longer now and that is why the association apologized and the (female) chairman of the board resigned because of all the fuss; 273 female members of the association sent a letter in which they wrote that they felt unsafe with such fellow students.
From a report in de Volkskranta few days later, it turned out that despite the rough fantasies of the male students, there were still plenty of female freshmen with only one wish: to become a member of ASC/AVSV (the Amsterdam Female Students Association).
The riot changed things radically. Suddenly everyone wanted to know what Amalia was going to do: member or not? Now her choice became a matter of principle, she was forced to choose position, woman or whore, that’s what it was all about. Would the indignation leave her cold and would she happily throw herself into the initiation rituals or did she suddenly feel aversion to membership after all?
In the bestseller that Claudia de Breij wrote about her (Amalia) indicated that she wanted to join ‘the corps, with a year club, all the trimmings’. So that was not the issue, the will was there. But the princess has now been tested and tested enough to realize that if she decided to become a member there would be difficult questions, such as: ‘How does Her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange feel about the characterization of women as ‘semen buckets’ by fellow corps members? ‘?’
You can’t get out of that one-two-three, and it gets really complicated when the foreign press is involved (‘Sperm buckets??’)
So it was decided in mutual consultation to wait a while with the membership, until the storm has passed and the culture change is supposedly completed – and fraternity balls that all women think are whores have graduated nicely.