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major misconception facing all sororities is that we are dependent upon
fraternities for our pleasure. Just the other day I was in my psych class and
this fraternity guy told me that without frats we would have nothing to with
our time. As if we spent every second of our life looking forward to spending
time with them. In actuality we spend time with because we kind of have to. We
have socials with them in order to get to know the guys so we can have partners
for future events. These socials are similar to parties, but it is just for the
sorority and fraternities. I personally do not look forward to socials since we
are just hanging out with slightly drunk guys who probably want remember our
names later.
Socials
are not a great way to get to know boys neither is parties. The only thing that
results from socials is potential relationships that can end badly. The only
thing good about socials is the fact that I can spend time with my sisters. We
get all pretty take fun pictures and have a great time dancing and getting to
know each other which help the night pass faster. The brothers are not horrible,
but in general a frat boy care only about is getting drunk and getting inside
of our pants. We have sober sisters at every party that make sure we do not get
taken advantage of and make sure you do not drink to much. Socials are a step
up from frat parties since we do not have to worry about getting to drunk, boys
taking advantage of you, being on a hot crowded dance floor, or having your
coat stolen. At socials you are always taken care of, but it does not change
the disgustingness of being at fraternities. In short being a sorority sister
does not make me more inclined to like fraternities it just increase my
interaction with them.
I'm a little confused by this,are you simply stating the relationship between sororities and fraternities? I had no idea that it was as simple as that, I am not in a sorority and I too had the stereotype that sororities and fraternities hung out together all the time.
ReplyDeleteThe relationship is very simple we don't really spend a lot of time with them except for in greek related events and socials. Other than that we have our own agenda and organizatiuon to think of which keeps of busy and sister time is much better than frat time lol.
ReplyDeleteYou seemed to have fun at my fraternity's social a couple weeks go... Hopefully none of my brothers tried to take advantage of any of your sisters. If we ever hear of anything like that, we would definitely do something to stop it. You say that your sorority basically has to go to socials, but do you? In my fraternity, unless you're working a duty, socials are optional to attend. My friend who's also in a sorority said that she didn't go to a social just because she didn't want to go. Hopefully you have that freedom.
ReplyDeleteI hope your experience with other fraternities doesn't permantly create a bad image of male greek life for you. We (or at least some of us) aren't all about partying and getting drunk. We're about forming bonds, gaining life skills, and creating a postive image in the university community. Albeit, there are some who join greek life for different reasons.
I appreciate you saying that sometimes it doesn't seem that way. I had fun at your fraternity and we are not forced, but when we are scheduled to be sober sister we have to go.
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