My guess is that media "news sources" aren't strangers to the old adage "sex sells" either. Bouncy blondes in bikinis are much better "click bait" than a bunch of bros drinking brews (or whatever).
People are so focused on this sorority video because one writer wrote about it and that website (not the writer herself) published it under a headline saying the video is worse for women than Donald Trump. Anything Donald Trump is getting the mediaâs attention right now.
According to the school paper, 34 AA women went through recruitment this year out of 2,400. 25 pledged a house. Those that did not pledge appear to have decided it was not for them although there were three that it is hard to tell what happened.
Whatâs the house GPA?
@boolahi - which quotes can be attributed to someone else??? One was your own grandmother, the barbie doll quote was yours as was the Abercrombie and Fitch and the divorced women quote. And the âvapidâ quote that you donât seem to want to âownâ â you agreed with and then repeated. So no, I am not taking them out of context.
And please, save me the âhow you should be sitting in a corner without providing commentaryâ card. I am engaging with you precisely because I have a desire to better understand your position which you have been quite willing to share.
Even if it is 4.0, they are probably all taking basket weaving classes.
Smart women are hot.
ETA: Ha Ha. That would be astronomical for the Greeks. Even at 'Bama.
https://ofsl.sa.ua.edu/download/975/
Chapter GPA this Spring was a 2.96 versus the UA all women average of 3.24
Thank you for that.
So finding something or someone tedious is a blanket judgement rather than a subjective standard on ones own patience? And appealing to cultivate something other than ones looks, well, that is just a non starter. And by way of exacting clarification, the Abrrcrombie and Fitch comment is actually tethered to tedious. The comment itâs just Alabama was a paraphrase from Ms. PG, that I was usingâŠWhat else you gotâŠ??? Iâm actually enjoying this nowâŠ
I know. Iâm one such lucky woman myself. 
As are many of my closest friends. Come to think of it, quite a few of them were in a sorority.
I guess thatâs why so many people like Jane Austen. Her novels remind us of a simpler time, a time when every woman is either pretty or plain, if sheâs pretty, nothing else matter, and if sheâs plain, nothing else matter either. And every man is either rich or not, if heâs rich, nothing else matter, if heâs not, nothing else matter either. Everyone can relate to that kind of simplicity.
@boolahi you are âsanitizingâ how you described certain groups of people in this thread. Go back to my post #255 and review what you wrote and review some of your other posts.
You described certain women as âbarbie dollsâ, âthroughly pedestrianâ, âclicheâ and âarm candy.â Then you go on to address divorced women from Manhattan Beach and UES in their 40âs as âhaving nothing to show for it except alimonyâ and summarize by saying in most instances they are just âformer beauty queens left by the wayside.â
I am not seeing the word âtediousâ in there anywhere.
If you have a dictionary, one of the definitions of vapid is tedious. Tell you what, since youngest D has a project for me, you are correct and I am wrong, but moreover, my attentions are needed elsewhereâŠ
âVapidâ is just one of the many adjectives you used to describe various groups of women @boolaHI.
@oldfort I didnât say I agree with Jane Austen. Why does it bother you so much some strangers on the internet are passing judgement on some other strangers on the internet? They put the video out there, they are inviting talks.
So what to you suggest to solve the problem, boolaHI?
Sorority racial segregation is not unique to the south. Here are some other ÎΊ chapters in flagship schools in non-southern states:
http://alphaphiosu.webs.com/
http://alphaphipennstate.wix.com/psugammarho#!photos/cwzf
The above flagships are 77-79% white, not too different from Alabama, which is about 80% white.
Here is another chapter, at a school that is 67% white:
There appears to be one obviously non-white member shown in all of the pictures on that chapterâs web site.
Here is a chapter that does appear to have more than one non-white member:
http://www.calalphaphi.com/#!photos/c196m
However, it is at a majority-minority school (only about 25% white).
These trends do not appear to be unique to ÎΊ either.
One question that this brings up is, is it normal for most peopleâs social circles to be highly racially segregated to the level seen in sororities? I.e. is the level of racial segregation seen in sororities merely a reflection of how people (college students or otherwise) typically choose their social circles with respect to race and ethnicity, or does it go significantly beyond even that? If it is reflective of how people typically choose their social circles, then we have a long way to go.
Did you really just say that? ;))
How about these:
Case Western: http://cwrualphaphi.wix.com/cwrualphaphi#!
Tufts: https://www.facebook.com/AlphaPhiTufts
CMU: https://www.facebook.com/CarnegieMellonAlphaPhi/photos_stream
Membership reflects the school in most cases.
@boolaHI, in Post #181, I think you were disagreeing with @Pizzagirl and not me. I didnât do my quoting well in Post #175.
@Pizzagirl wrote:
Hereâs my response:
In other words, there shouldnât be discrimination whatever the activity, even if it is an activity I donât find so attractive.