Arjen
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This doesn't make any sense.
Sorority recruiting vid taken down, "worse for women than Donald Trump"
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This doesn't make any sense.
That original article fucking sucks. Feminism means you can be whoever you want to be!
Oh, except a hot chick. That's not cool. You're setting a bad example and letting everyone down. Never mind the fact that telling a frumpy miserable slacktivist to slap on some make-up and a wonderbra would be classed as a mysoginistic sexual assault, they aren't letting anyone down. They're being the right kind of whoever women want to be.
Oh, and white people should stop congregating in groups of more than 15 unless they have a token number of minorities with them. Say one minority for every four white people, although the numbers can be adjusted according to just how minority the chosen minorities are. Bonus points if you can recruit a few disabled in there.
Let's work together for a more diverse future, where diversity is a uniform enforcement of whatever I decide to be the correct way to live.
Oh, except a hot chick. That's not cool. You're setting a bad example and letting everyone down. Never mind the fact that telling a frumpy miserable slacktivist to slap on some make-up and a wonderbra would be classed as a mysoginistic sexual assault, they aren't letting anyone down. They're being the right kind of whoever women want to be.
Oh, and white people should stop congregating in groups of more than 15 unless they have a token number of minorities with them. Say one minority for every four white people, although the numbers can be adjusted according to just how minority the chosen minorities are. Bonus points if you can recruit a few disabled in there.
Let's work together for a more diverse future, where diversity is a uniform enforcement of whatever I decide to be the correct way to live.
Talk to me, Marrec. What does that mean?
Bullshit. You were 30 already when you went to college and that was, what, 15 fucking years ago? Nice try.
WanderingWind
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What the everliving fuck is a "white lifestyle?"
Not necessarily. Scholarship and loan money can pay for Sorority living, and it can sometimes end up cheaper than on campus or apartment living.
I believe one of the reasons many sororities tend to be so monoracial is because of their stereotype of being vapid. Not many people want to be odd minority out, when so much of a sorority has to do with sharing a common experience. Which for many revolves around social climbing as young white women (in terms of how it plays out mechanically, not in what they are trying to promote.) It's inherently living up life as who you are. It also seems to depend on the region of the country, because there are plenty of racially diverse sororities too. However, those ones usually attract all the minority and foreign students, which usually focus on holding cultural events and meetings, leaving the stereotypical blonde white girls to their own club. Usually Fraternities and Sororities revolve around a common interest or experience. So you get the engineers, the lit majors, the foreign students, the social clubs.
God Dayumm
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Im more interested in hearing from the people who complained the video to explain what is a brown, black or asian lifestyle. We'll see who the real racists are
Goro Majima
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Arjen
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Country cars instead of rap cars?
WanderingWind
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It isn't even all that. People are just using "white" as a prefix to shit that doesn't even make sense.
No deeper offensive to you meaning Dave, just that they're not limiting themselves except in diversity. They're rich white girls surrounded by rich white girls going through college in Greek style. That's an incredibly "white" lifestyle. Sorry if I offended you. And no, I'm not excluding black women from that lifestyle, they are.
A subtle misspelling of your name can't fool me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Weinke
That's cool and all. The Greek stuff still comes off weirdly cultish to me. I guess I just don't get the point.
You don't get the point of a social club?
You didn't offend me, I just don't get what a 'white lifestyle' is. Reminds me of my friends brother who rips on me for acting / talking black. I don't have a handy reference guide for which activities are racially appropriate so I like to see what other people go on.
How do you know these chicks are rich? How do you know they exclude black chicks? If those black chicks are as judgemental and prejudiced as many of the people that have viewed this video, they might well be excluding themselves.
This is ultimately what made me ask. It's odd seeing 'white' used as just a random negative descriptor as though it actually meant anything tangible.
Eh, it's not like they're doing it so that you get the point.
looks like they're doing it so that they get the point.
Probably. His coach would have probably also killed him he'd run as fast as he could, considering that guy is Kenyan Drake, a running back for the University who is recovering from a broken leg.
WanderingWind
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Okay, look, white people still make up the majority of the population in America. They make up 77 percent of the population. 245,519,933 people, give or take a cracker or two, are white. In any given scenario, you're likely to find clumps of us, standing around, ordering ham and Miracle Whip sandwiches (on Wonderbread, natch!) and dancing badly. The very presence of a group of a majority doesn't automatically infer any negative connotation.
Cool it with the microaggressions
I mean, do you know what a sorority is? You're from a different country so I don't know.
Subpar Spatula
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Troubling as it's all white.
Just a bunch of hot women embracing one another. This world needs more love. I'm OK with this.
Just a bunch of hot women embracing one another. This world needs more love. I'm OK with this.
That's a very odd logic to label it "white lifestyle". A frat in my uni mostly made up of Indian students promoted themselves using more or less the typical "Greek lifestyle" outlook. Would I be accurate in saying they're promoting "white lifestyle" or "Brown/Minority" lifestyle?
There are four very large "black" sororities and at least one of them has a chapter on most Greek campuses. If you are African American and interested in joining a sorority, that's where most seem (personal experience) to gravitate. Fraternities in my experience are not quite so segregated.
backflip10019
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This video is so hilariously tone deaf, I don't understand how people are taking it so seriously.
*cut to Ed McMahon laughing*
I didn't mean to imply negativity, sorry to offend you.
They're promoting a "greek" lifestyle. Not, actually greek, for those of you who are confused.
Shuggananas
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MisterR
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Oh my, Marrec of all people caught in a PC trap?
Mighty Chin
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Dat Diversity
I can't speak for Alpha Phi, specifically, but the "white sororities" (and, yes, there are "black sororities") did historically discriminate against minority candidates. However, over the past decade, there has been a strong push to break down these unofficial barriers. The resistance to these efforts came not from the girls currently in school, but from the older graduates who maintain veto power over who received a "bid" (offer to join the sorority). There was a whole series of articles on this a couple of years ago. Here's one from the University paper: http://www.cw.ua.edu/article/2013/09/the-final-barrier-50-years-later-segregation-still-exists
What the alumnae did is beyond disgraceful.
Vicetrailia
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Video is a waste of time to judge or even watch imo.
You're quoting the equivalent of "I've got a [minority] friend" to say I was caught in a PC trap?
Grats to y'all I guess for getting the elusive Marrec in your elaborate trap.
I have it on Repeat. Because reasons.
They are a place where fake tanned blondes with tight bodies, perky boobs, and great nails congregate. These chicks are often late teens heading into the wide world for the first time. I'd be negligent if I didn't know of them.
What is the difference between Greek and White lifestyle?
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I'm... ashamed I asked actually.
Greek life, especially sorority greek life, is still very segregated and especially so in traditionally "southern" states. It's not the fault of the individual girls in the video nor do I think they're racist or anything. It's a lifestyle that stifles exposure to diversity by physically segregating women.
Again, I apologize if I offended anyone who anecdotally knew of a frat or sorority that wasn't the way the majority of them are.
Not much.
Most social clubs revolve around a specific 'topic' or common interest, right? I don't get the point of this social club. Not that there necessarily needs to be a point to it. They just come off as loud, strange and, sometimes, exclusionary in my opinion.
The first minute and a half of the video seemed like an ad for a playboy mansion. Then the rest of the time at that lake was just weird. And they used a shot of some girls ass multiple times where she held the school flag behind her. Definitely not in the schools interest for this to be advertising sororities.
Worked for FSU and Jenn Sterger
Those girls in that video probably aren't evil racists if that helps.
GoldenEye 007
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It's always entertaining seeing GAF get pissy over college Greek life.
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