The UA Alpha Phi recruitment video = Just about everything that is wrong with Southern Greek life

[bluestateguy]

All white. Football. Parties. Booze. Strict gender roles for men and women. Mommy and Daddy's money. Designer clothes.

I just don't "get" Greek life, especially in the South.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/worse-than-trump-alabama-sororitys-all-white-recruitment-video-completely-sabotages-womens-rights/

[yeoman6987]

1. Especially in the south?

Fraternities and sorities are the same everywhere. I understand this was not a thought out video but if you think that they are different regionally, they are not. Shut them all down but not just the south but everywhere even Washington, D.C.

[Bonx]

2. Painted, near-naked ladies on the prowl...

[exboyfil]

3. A Facebook friend from High School

made a very earnest post about her daughter getting accepted into an organization and how important that it was. At first I thought she was talking about an elite school. It turns out she was taking about a sorority. I just don't get it.

[Butterbean]

4. As a former sorority girl (at a college in the south)

none of this surprises me. Pretty standard. Also the reason I left the sorority life after 2 years.

[LibertyLover]

5. Hey, they're integrated -

they had a token brunette or two. I would not want to get the bill for the Miss Clairol Golden Blonde #4 for that place.

[GoCubsGo]

8. But, not a short haircut in the lot.

I guess pixie cuts and bobs are about as forbidden as being overweight. Not sure why anyone would want to be a part of that kind of thing. Thirty-plus years out of college, and I still don't understand the attraction to "Greek" life.

[Art_from_Ark]

9. The best I could figure, the attraction to "Greek" life

was to party, party, party; find a trophy wife/husband; and establish contacts with other rich people to maintain the "proper" status in society.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Yay college. Fixing everything that is wrong with the US economy.

The purpose of a thing is explained by its advertisements. Everything else is rationalization.

[Journeyman]

7. Young women doing what they want with their lives. . .

If it fulfills their expectations, and does no one harm, it's their business not mine.

It seems akin to middle-aged men sitting on a couch drinking brewskis and binge watching the tube.

I have the same attitude towards both groups: If that's what you want out of life, you've got it.

I've sought something more from my too few hours.

[a la izquierda]

10. I teach at a university...

Greek life is a scourge. We had an 18 year old kid die of alcohol poisoning right before Christmas last year. A few months later, his brothers whined that the fire marshall "targeted" them for all sorts of violations, meanwhile they had just let one of their "brothers" die a very preventable death.