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Forbes fires 'drunk girl' columnist

For a few minutes on Tuesday afternoon, Forbes had up a questionable column in the politics section by contributor Bill Frezza with the headline "Drunk Female Guests Are the Gravest Threat to Fraternities," that went about as well as its headline indicated.

"As recriminations against fraternities mount and panicked college administrators search for an easy out, one factor doesn't seem to be getting sufficient analysis: drunk female guests," Frezza, also a fraternity alumni president at MIT, wrote in the now-removed column. "...we have very little control over women who walk in the door carrying enough pre-gaming booze in their bellies to render them unconscious before the night is through."

The Forbes website took the column down almost immediately, telling the New York Daily News that Frezza is no longer a contributor for the site. Frezza told the Daily News that he stands by every word he wrote., though he said he understood that the accompanying stock photo of a woman on the ground trying to drink from a bottle was in "poor taste."

Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.