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Riva

Riva

Apopka, FL
May 2005

FEB 15, 2007 04:19 PM

Meow said:
Fraternity = paying to have friends.... who are usually assholes.

miao!!



Agreed.

FridgeMagnet

FridgeMagnet

Chicago, IL
November 2004

FEB 15, 2007 04:24 PM

If you want me to make non stop fun of you, be my guest.

kwizzle

kwizzle

Cambridge, MA
September 2004

FEB 15, 2007 04:32 PM

My instinctual resentment of fraternities and sororities springs from the dues-paying. I was too poor to afford them, so I resented them.

(I resented a lot of things.)

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

FEB 15, 2007 06:19 PM

Azuri said:

Meow said:
Fraternity = paying to have friends.... who are usually assholes.

miao!!



Agreed.



+ I have no idea what I'm talking about.....I mean 1.....I mean......no, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Kes

Kes

USA
August 2006

FEB 15, 2007 11:57 PM

I went to a large state school that had a lot of fraternities, although I never joined one myself. I think the negative stereotype about fraternities is generally incorrect. I went to a lot of fraternity parties because, in general, they usually threw the best ones. I met some assholes who were brothers but I also met some really cool guys. Just like I met a lot of non-fraternity folks who were assholes and just as many that were nice. My own brother was in a fraternity and he's one of the most intelligent, individualistic people I know.
Fraternities are not all the same. I went to parties at ones that were co-ed and very artsty and slackerish and full of stoners and some that were all jocks.

the only thing I can say I have against fraternities is the hazing. my freshman year of college (I went to Rutgers) a pledge drank himself to death in a hazing incident. i'd hate to be that kid's parents. i have no idea how bad pledges get treated when they're being hazed (i know it varies from fraternity to fraternity) but I've heard some get pretty rough,

Postblank

Postblank

New Brunswick, NJ
June 2004

FEB 16, 2007 02:46 AM

Cash said:

Azuri said:

Meow said:
Fraternity = paying to have friends.... who are usually assholes.

miao!!



Agreed.



+ I have no idea what I'm talking about.....I mean 1.....I mean......no, I have no idea what I'm talking about.



"Hmm... I want people to realize that some guys in frats are reasonable, intelligent and level-headed, how should I go about that? Got it! I'll act like a prissy little cunt. Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius."

Girthy

Girthy

Canoga Park, CA
July 2005

FEB 16, 2007 03:05 AM

SkaRambo said:

Cash said:

Azuri said:

Meow said:
Fraternity = paying to have friends.... who are usually assholes.

miao!!



Agreed.



+ I have no idea what I'm talking about.....I mean 1.....I mean......no, I have no idea what I'm talking about.



"Hmm... I want people to realize that some guys in frats are reasonable, intelligent and level-headed, how should I go about that? Got it! I'll act like a prissy little cunt. Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius."



In Cash's defense he posted two very well thought out posts before this one. Alas, certain parties continued to take very cheap shots at the subject. A man can only take so much you know?

Bastardo

Bastardo

Boston, MA
January 2005

FEB 16, 2007 04:12 AM

I love it when people site themselves as a source. I'm going to do that all the time now. Cause I'm a wicked good source too, see?

Also, back on-topic, my school is just a humble professional science school (I can't tell you, the privacy, the privacy) but we have frats as well, although more in the realm of the Tri-Lams then Animal House. The guy frat is Kappa Psi or something and the greek letters look like KY. I'm not shitting you.

Tekky

Tekky

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

FEB 16, 2007 05:58 AM

*slap*.

Tekky

Tekky

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

FEB 16, 2007 06:03 AM

oh, PS...i live right smack in the middle of the frat house area for the University of Toronto.

it's gross. i've never been so turned off of men in my life as when these idiots are out in full force on the weekends.

this is literally 8 houses down the street from me.

Cairo

Cairo

SUICIDEGIRL

Maryland, USA

FEB 16, 2007 06:31 AM

I joined a sorority in college. It's non-Greek, is limited only to HBCUs, and is actually pretty damn small so I doubt that many of you here has ever heard of it.

I took a lot of positive things from the experience, and a few negatives as well. It's not all that different from when you get to know any organization of people really, except that if I ever needed a ride, a place to crash, or anything really, I never even had to ask. I had a whole network of women that would support me without hesitation.

I'm not active with them anymore, but I don't regret my association with them at all.

P.S. I've had enough of people shit-talking fraternities and sororities as if they were all the same, and then when I inform them, "Hey, I joined a sorority in college," they respond with someone ridiculously inane like, "Oh, that's too bad." As if I've got some sort of horrible character flaw that doesn't live up to their expectation of what a Suicide Girl or a punk rocker (which I am not and have never claimed to be) should be. If you're one of those people, kindly fuck off. Kthnx.

Morgan

Morgan

SUICIDEGIRL

Illinois, USA

FEB 16, 2007 07:49 AM

Cairo and Cash are right. Everyone completely ignoring their points and thinking they're being clever with the whole "buying friends" bit is wrong.

The end.

MisterSatan

MisterSatan

Portland, OR
August 2002

FEB 16, 2007 08:35 AM

Ha ha, college.

Trevallion

Trevallion

Murfreesboro, TN
February 2004

FEB 16, 2007 09:03 AM

MisterSatan said:
Ha ha, college.



Seriously! You guys think you can just pay for an education?!

Girthy

Girthy

Canoga Park, CA
July 2005

FEB 16, 2007 12:53 PM

Cairo said:
I joined a sorority in college. It's non-Greek, is limited only to HBCUs, and is actually pretty damn small so I doubt that many of you here has ever heard of it.

I took a lot of positive things from the experience, and a few negatives as well. It's not all that different from when you get to know any organization of people really, except that if I ever needed a ride, a place to crash, or anything really, I never even had to ask. I had a whole network of women that would support me without hesitation.

I'm not active with them anymore, but I don't regret my association with them at all.

P.S. I've had enough of people shit-talking fraternities and sororities as if they were all the same, and then when I inform them, "Hey, I joined a sorority in college," they respond with someone ridiculously inane like, "Oh, that's too bad." As if I've got some sort of horrible character flaw that doesn't live up to their expectation of what a Suicide Girl or a punk rocker (which I am not and have never claimed to be) should be. If you're one of those people, kindly fuck off. Kthnx.



Ma'am, you're my hero.

apesamongus

apesamongus

Atlanta, GA
July 2002

FEB 16, 2007 02:48 PM

The negative image of fraternities in largely based on movies like Animal House & Revenge of the Nerds and the shit tv shows that Mtv churns out. The idiots who make lead story in the news don't help either.


I saw a visiting "brother" from another school hit golf balls at a candlelight vigil for battered women.
Then I saw our president speak to the collected fraternity telling us to keep it quiet and not report it to the college disciplinary committee (if there is one thing on this earth I will take to my grave as a regret, it is buckling to peer pressure in that instance.)
I've been pressured to quit organizations that the brothers thought didn't reflect well on the frat, and then confronted several times by "brothers" who didn't approve of the way I dressed.
I've seen "brothers" blatantly turn away people I invited to frat parties by openly stating that the party was to meet chicks - dues -> party -> meet chicks -> looks a lot like paying for friends to me.

And all that is after, as I said earlier, I helped start the frat and actively tried to prevent admitting assholes.

So, if you hit the jackpot and somehow got a group of non-dickheads, then good for you. But don't pretend that the bad reputation is fabricated by the media, because it's fucking dead on accurate from my experience.

soulcompromise

soulcompromise

I'm lost
November 2006

FEB 16, 2007 03:51 PM

Trevallion said:

MisterSatan said:
Ha ha, college.



Seriously! You guys think you can just pay for an education?!



yes and i pray that the education pays off...

Girthy

Girthy

Canoga Park, CA
July 2005

FEB 16, 2007 04:05 PM

soulcompromise said:

Trevallion said:

MisterSatan said:
Ha ha, college.



Seriously! You guys think you can just pay for an education?!



yes and i pray that the education pays off...



I found out that it was a colossal waste of my money.
But of course I was an art major.

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

FEB 16, 2007 04:18 PM

SkaRambo said:
"Hmm... I want people to realize that some guys in frats are reasonable, intelligent and level-headed, how should I go about that? Got it! I'll act like a prissy little cunt. Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius."



Run along, junior.

JohnClement

JohnClement

Silver Spring, MD
January 2004

FEB 16, 2007 05:08 PM

No Greek system at my college. We had one national social fraternity that tried way too hard to emulate the TV/film frat stereotypes. They sucked.

If I had gone to a large school, I may have considered a fraternity.

Postblank

Postblank

New Brunswick, NJ
June 2004

FEB 16, 2007 09:05 PM

Cash said:

SkaRambo said:
"Hmm... I want people to realize that some guys in frats are reasonable, intelligent and level-headed, how should I go about that? Got it! I'll act like a prissy little cunt. Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius."



Run along, junior.



Sure thing, gramps.

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