sororitys
 

Could someone explain the concept of this college thing

what's their purpose ? why do they exist? and why are they relevent in todays world?

They are quite effective for grouping and referral purposes.

They tend to group together women of certain personality types and goal orientation. This helps the male of the species to efficiently qualify likely targets for fornication.

The female of the species is benefited in that she doesn't have to personally sleep with every male on campus to separate the subpar, average, and above average lovers, she can simply look to her sisters for referrals while occasionnally taking one for the team.

At least that is my understanding of the situation.

Not helpful, l123, as DaughterofV is many hundreds of miles away, with ample cover for the males of the species in my field of view.

:eyebrow:

One can count on one's Sisters to hold one's hair back while one pukes, and -- occasionally -- to take one's contacts out when one is far too drunk to actually make it to the bathroom at all.

At least that is my understanding of the situation.

It's a WAT? (Weird American Thing)

All I know about sororities, I learned from watching this documentary.

Ah, yes, the sorority.

This is a time honored tradition in American culture, where places of higher learning group together young women of similar age, and socio-economic groups.

The main effect of this grouping is to help these young waifs learn that it is wrong to be different, and that mocking and belittling those who are different is the only way to succeed in life.

In addition to this valuable life lesson, these future home-makers are taught that the only things that matter in life are success, money and power. And that the acquisition of these things is paramount.

Of course it's not all work!

Sororities also teach these young ladies how to pillow-fight in their underwear, when to put out for the captain of the football team, and that college is the best time to experiment. Especially with their sexuality. It is almost mandatory that these nymphs sleep with each other, so as to gain a better understanding of their bodies, and in the process, become better acquainted with the bodies of those who'll be lifelong friends, and sometimes even more.

Yet, even as these life lessons are imparted to them, dangers still abound.

Every year, countless young ladies are lost to homicidal killers hiding in the basements of the sorority house. One would assume that the sound of a chainsaw would send them running in fear. But, alas, no. The mere sound is enough to attract cute, curvaceous co-eds to their doom.

Running though the woods in high-heels while being chased by a knife-wielding madman is now being taught in many state universities,

Spur-of-the-moment sexual encounters, occurring while a murderous psycho is on the loose, is another cause of alarm for many faculty across this great nation of ours.

But, the biggest hazard facing college co-eds today is the "Caribbean Trip".
So many young, nubile, photogenic co-eds are disappearing these days, one would assume that a "white slavery sex ring" was claiming them. Only time will tell, although one theory has suggested that America's institutes of higher learning should send as many co-eds as possible, all at once, so as to overburden the possible killers, and end their reign of terror once and for all.

The Sorority was invented by Al Gore in an effort to decrease global warming. So when you have a keg party you only have to print one invite to each house and thereby save paper which saves trees and increases the amount of CO2 which is absorbed from the earth's atmosphere and cuts down on destruction of the ozone and saves us from getting sunburns when on holiday in Florida at the beach.

But wouldn't the additional CO2 released due to increased consumption of beer defeat the purpose?

Not if you drink Guinness.

Bwahahahaha at the idea of sorority girls drinking Guinness :lol:

I find that most beers increase my methane output, which is a worse greenhouse gas than CO2.

YES!!!!!!!!!! YOU NAILED IT!!!!!!!!! :D

duh, for somebody named lushchocolatepantyswirl, you shure are not the smartest cookie, are you? Yeah, um, sororities are like, (flip of hair) only for girls good enough (like, k, rich enough) to afford the GOOD clothes and Italian bags and junk? AND we are all BEST friends, so, if, like one of you non-sorority or even RIVAL sorority SKANKS skanks on us? well, we'll like, get ALL UP IN YOUR FACE, BITCH and pretty soon the only guys who will date-rape you are the ones with chancre's on their mighty dicks so take THAT, you fat pig!!!!!!!!!

Glad to see your getting back to your old self, Brianna.

all in good time, my pretties!

I just hope lush knows you are kidding.

good god, has it come to this? of course I was kidding! It was my sorority persona-girrrrrrrl. Lush certainly knows that! If you can't kid in the cellar, where can you? Not at the IRS, I can tell you.


Nor at the State Board of Pharmacy. They've no idea of a "joke," either. :D

As a student of the most fraternized college campus in the US (Illinois), your words hit the ball out of the park.

Yes I know Brianna was role playing. :D

The reason I asked about this was because I've only recently watched 2 documentaries on this American phenomenon.
By the time I finished watching these shows I thought about the comparisons to the black and hispanic gangs. It seems that sororitys are a white up market version of a gang.

Ah, I'm glad you knew I was fooling around, lushchocolate! I usually mean no harm at all and am just a silly person.

I think your assessment of sororities being an up market white girl gang is on the money. In my time they were anyway. There was a sorority in an Indiana college that wanted the chapter closed because the girls weren't cute enough---they didn't explicitly say that, but that is what those sorority girls thought of the closing issue. I just wish I could recall the name of the college...anyway, I fear and am suspicious of sororities. If I meet a girl/woman who identifies herself as such I always wonder what their deal is. Couldn't they get friends on their own and had to join a gang to have built-in friends?

Though, in truth, in high-school I was a selective friend-getter myself. I only wanted to hang out with the people who partied!! Looking back on that, I can see how I cut out a lot of cool people because they weren't "just like me"---you know? It's dumb on both ends.

I think you're thinking of this story.

Steve---webpage can't be found....dammit!!!

at least that's what my puter is telling me----but my computer LIES.

No it doesn't, it's a bad link.

I think it's for breeding. That is all.

Not to be a nervous nelly, but the broken link is for breeding or the sorority is for breeding?


IMHO, cats, dogs and people are best when they are mongrel. IMHO.

Though I did have to restrain myself from naming my kids Skip and Chip.

Sorry about that--try it again!

(The address itself was fine. I put my double quotes in the wrong place.)

yeah, dude, that's it! thanks!

*free call to Brianna's Bald (but getting better!) House of Pleasure*

What is really gut turning is that some of these girls actually stayed on at the sorority . Are these young women so emmencely insecure about themselves that they think this is normal behaviour?

sickening to say the least.

Only six of them, and they may have had outside pressures like family.

I reckon I would of been great sorority material.

Bald, eh? :angel:

*raises hand slowly*

I will join the selected sorority, pillow fight, and call you all fat ho's, if I get to go to Bri's house of pleasure too. Mark me down!! lol!

That sounds, like, totally awesome! *flips hair* *hides burgeoning pimple*

A Cellarity.

BaldLikeBuddha

I think that there is a lot of that still going on however as BigV stated, DaughterofV is in a sorority. We are in no means "rich", which is a big stereotype. She works her ass off to get merit in the house, she has held the position of Parlimentarian and is now the Standards Chair. The house is very serious, as is the university, on upholding GPAs or you get the boot.

Partying is still an element anywhere but not just on Greek Row. All over every campus. As in evidence by the great game of beer pong I got to play on campus during Mom's Weekend last weekend. :D
Followed by a fantastic concert by Elton John.

I don't think I could deal with a Beer Pong game with one of my kids.

I don't think I would want to. S-ok tho different strokes for different folks.

Can I join the Cellarity please?
If you blackball me I'll just go and start up my own anyway, so you may as well let me in.

Warning - I don't do hair-holding. If you're gonna puke you're on your own babe.
I do have a lovely wide shoulder for crying on though.

Tink & V - very interesting to hear the other side of it from people with personal knowledge. I admit I've only ever heard/ seen the stereotyped images before. I can see that properly run, female students working together and looking out for eachother is really positive.

I expect the Cellarity to focus on drunken misbehaviour though.

Yes Tink I'm sure your daughters sorority is not like the others!





while mom's around

I know exactly what they are like and they do fall into the steroetype. Just saying that they also put a lot of emphasis on academics as well. The kids are held to a standard and if they fall below that standard and do not rectify the situation, they get the boot. That is the side of Greek that people do not see until they are directly involved.

Trust me, we were cleaning up a lot of :vomit: Friday night.:drunk:

I also have the added benefit of having open conversations with my daughter so not much goes by the wayside. Albeit, I know there are some things I prefer NOT to know. I am not easily fooled as V can attest to.

:D
lol!
There are many sides of greek that people do not see until........:)


That has nothing to do with what Tink was saying or the conversation about sororities....move along...sorry..

My freshman year of college, as an early acceptance, I was put onto a floor that was mostly dedicated to a sorority, upperclassmen, with a few of us freshmen on that floor. All my buddies joined. It was a smallish private college in the middle of nowhere, there was not much to do. I admit, I joined too. My mother so did not want me to. She was right.

The values? Please. Once my money ran out it was all over. What do you mean you can't spend 300 bucks for a pretty pin and 400 for a preppy sweater?

Also, I couldn't get on board with the whole pepperjack cheese sex I heard so much about. :lol: I'm only partially kidding.

The frats, however, found ways to finance brothers who fell on hard times.

What makes the news? Scandal, titillation, gossip... What doesn't make the news? Philanthropy, community service, fellowship. I don't dispute that the "girls gone wild" stereotype has some basis in fact. But I think the attention given to that aspect is way out of proportion to its prevalence or relevance. It's possible to look for bad, and find it, in any organization. I don't have any prurient interests to satisfy, so I don't bother focusing on those aspects. To each his own.
There's considerable comedy potential here, though.

I know what side I'd like to see. :blush:

How many sorority girls does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

13. One to do it and 12 to make a t-shirt about it.

OOOOohhh? Won't the Windex burn on that side?

Big.....I don't think that's windex, and it definitely won't clean glass.
;)

Backing out now.

This "Windex".

Yea I got it the first time.
;)

Those poor girls that got thrown out of their sorority could join Eta Pi.

That's our name - right there

That's what I was thinking, but it made me want a meat and potato pie from the chippie and then I was sad :(. Wouldya mail me one?

You know, I googled that to see if it was a well known joke (I'm sure it must be), but I came up with seeeeeerious sorority/fratenity things called Eta Pi. F'real. But then I've never heard sports crowds here sing "who ate all the pies". So perhaps it's just not a phrase applied to salad-dodgers here.

I'd post you a proper Pie n Mash shop pie if
- I could get away with it
- it wouldn't be as stale as buggery when it arrived
- you were actually an ex Londoner

Sorry

I want a northern one. I'll ask Dana :D

:lol:

Wouldn't you agree that it is also chapter specific? Hence the ABL is a party place, the BD house is mostly religious, the BP place is only if you are black, etc. They all have their own personality and purpose for existance, as well as standards.