Sorority recruiting vid taken down, "worse for women than Donald Trump"

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I guess I'll never get the appeal of Greek life or whatever you want to call it.
I mean unless you get access to a special library or something.
I'll chalk it up to cultural divide.
 
salva said:
Where were this girls when I was in college??
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Well...they were probably in elementary school if you're the same age as me.

If you mean girls like them...they were at my college, ignoring that I existed because I didn't drink alcohol. I hate my college self sometimes.
 
Dreams-Visions said:
Phone autocorrecting while trying to board a flight. :-(

TELL ME WHAT TO BE MAD AT IN THIS VID, GAF.

I think I speak on behalf of all of the men of Alpha Phi Alpha when I say, "yea, we'd party with them."

I wonder if they swing wood. >:-3
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No scissoring at all, like not even for a second

If these were asian girls pretending to be innocent, thread would be different with 100% more honor defending
 
salva said:
Where were this girls when I was in college??
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This was the norm at my state Uni. I remember Playboy scored quite a few of their college issue models from our school while I was there. Some of the girls were in my class and were asked about it regularly.
 
Slayven said:
Shit is as corny as hell but it ain't bad. They do have a type though.

I want to see an AKA one
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Knowing my sorors, the only difference would be pink & green bikinis, a Drake/Kanye/Weekend song...and the occasional pant suit in some random school.

Oh and perms getting patted down in a random stroll line.

Oh and a few overweight.
 
fantastic_planet said:
No scissoring at all, like not even for a second

If these were asian girls pretending to be innocent, thread would be different with 100% more honor defending
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Except I dunno anybody who's in this thread worrying seriously about this video so you're alternate universe scenario seems out of context. Eh, I probably missed a joke somewhere.
 
evilromero said:
This was the norm at my state Uni. I remember Playboy scored quite a few of their college issue models from our school while I was there. Some of the girls were in my class and were asked about it regularly.
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What school did you go to? I went to UC Santa Barbara and there were lots of hot girls in there. It was paradise
 
salva said:
Damn son
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Greek culture was pretty dumb at my college. For the most part the only people who took it seriously were the ones that were part of it. Everyone else either thought it was a joke or best case scenario, with indifference.

Every so often you'd get someone running for student office that would run on a platform to improve Greek life. They never won.
 
SmokyDave said:
Eh, no more than those 'vapid basics with fake blonde hair and orange tans' clearly triggered you in the first place. I was just reminding you that one mans trash is another mans totty.
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I was being flippant. But hey man, go for it - apologies for dissing your type. Actually, my complaint has a lot more to do with the personality traits than the physical look anyway.
 
Megalosaro said:
Greek culture was pretty dumb at my college. For the most part the only people who took it seriously were the ones that were part of it. Everyone else either thought it was a joke or best case scenario, with indifference.

Every so often you'd get someone running for student office that would run on a platform to improve Greek life. They never won.
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Yeah, the Greek system is like the opposite of that at Alabama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_(social_group)

They are very involved in campus politics and, until recently, dominated almost all of the student elections because (1) they voted in a bloc and (2) the "independents" more often than not didn't vote at all.
 
Wow, just watched the video....they are some good looking girls.

Being in the UK my only exposure to these Sorority groups are through films, but that seemed to match up my expectation perfectly.
 
I mean it was cheesy but they looked happy and stuff don't really see the problem. Also it kinda looked like they were doing a seance at one point.
 
Surprised it was taken down in this climate, on any issue, white women get their way. Music was garbage and video was shallow, but that's most college people early on.
 
backslashbunny said:
Well, it isn't random. There's usually some "mythology" going on with organizations, as well. There's history, significance, etc., in both name and color and whatnot.

I mean, no one has to buy into it or take it seriously, but to say that they're just "random Greek letters" really isn't true.
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made up mythology, affectated history and make-believe significance created after the fact to justify random names and colours
 
backslashbunny said:
I can't speak to every single fraternity or sorority, but ours wasn't made up "after the fact." The founding sisters of the sorority I was in created our lore and have very real history. Again, how seriously anyone wants to take it is totally subjective and certainly I don't care how it is viewed, but talking shit about stuff you don't know about is also kinda weird.

By all means, make fun of the made up traditions and mythology. I mean, no one really takes it seriously that I know, anyway, so I don't expect people that aren't affiliated to either. I never really took it seriously either, but my chapter was always a bit more laidback about that sort of stuff.

However, please stop with your whole "random names and colors" as if we took darts to the Greek alphabet and picked colors out of a hat. That's just factually wrong. Regardless of how superficial or lighthearted the initial method of choosing was, it wasn't "random."

For example, my sorority was founded by a group of women back in the 1870s, at a college where they were the first women to ever be admitted to a male college in that state. The first woman was actually valedictorian of her class, as well. That's not made up mythology or lore, that's actual history. I happen to think it's pretty cool considering the struggles and discrimination they must have faced back then, and I am not ashamed of idealizing people like them as role models or wanting to participate in the societies they set up. Do I care if they maybe chose a color or flower or motto because it sounded pretty or they personally liked it? No, not really. It's no different than the concept of birthstones. Just because it originated from a fun and not totessrs! place doesn't mean it can't still be enjoyed and accepted, or can't represent a group of people.
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choosing something because it's pretty or they liked it is the definition of random. that it was given meaning after the fact doesn't change that selection process.

unless the founding sisters were all named king arthur in which case holy shit
 
This is a very complex topic to wrestle with. Most likely best to leave it be, like a beehive.

However, if we really want to dwell in? Okay, lets do that!
There is a complex process behind what is presented in this video it involves:
-"Selection based on looks"
-"Selection based on status"
-"Selection based on skin color"*

All these together in the self-reinforcing mantra of "do not be jelly, just let them be" partake in something that is not the source of a problem, but definitely a result.

Yeah dudes, I get it: you want to fuck these girls, they are hot, amazing. Nothing wrong with sex, [ a bit of a ssomething wrong with reducing them to whether they are fuckable or not, but that is a different conversation for a different topic ]. That does not mean that you would not find enough of these ladies if these groups were just a bit more regulated in their selection processes.

Becasue lets face it: yeah, initially people just want to do what they did so far - which in case is continuing vain, discriminating practices in the name of worshipping beauty and FAIR SKIN yo.

Well, this whole situation is akin to finding a group of teens in a crowded, poorly ventilated stadium using stink bombs. Yeah, that act alone is not a big deal, unless the circumstances are less then ideal. It is worth singling out this particular group? No. But leaving the whole thing alone as "they are just having fun" is not the wisest, especially consiering what social dynamics might arise from this to those not in their sorority.
 
I didn't really have a problem with this video. Yeah, minorities not well represented but the video itself seemed well done. And I didn't think it was super racy or anything considering how kids are these days.
 
I didn't find it all that offensive. Just awful. Also aimed at guys. Who exactly do they think is going to want to join this sorority? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
Wandering Robot said:
I didn't find it all that offensive. Just awful. Also aimed at guys. Who exactly do they think is going to want to join this sorority? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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It is a wonderful example of how our current social constructs actually form young female's behavior into these. You are expected to be this. This is the norm now. And "leave them be, they are just enjoying themselves", remember. Wink-wink.
 
Sororities and Fraternities don't make sense to me fundamentally.

I guess they're meant to be glamorous and this is what that means to them?
 
Azih said:
Sororities and Fraternities don't make sense to me fundamentally.

I guess they're meant to be glamorous and this is what that means to them?
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They're meant to be attractive both physically and logically, not just glamorous. They make sense from many angles except an affordability one.
 
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