<p>in general, are they dating girls... just because they wanna get laid?</p>
<p>sweeping generalizations are always smart to make.</p>
<p>you're right, generalizations are smart to make. every guy just wants to get laid. frat boys are better at it because they're like the jocks of high school, and women always want them.</p>
<p>i disagree very strongly with that last statement... most of the girls i know instantly cross a guy OFF their list when they find out he's a frat boy. But besides the getting laid thing, I dislike frat boys because they are so boring... (to make a sweeping generalization) they all pretty much have the same personality, or if not the same personality, the same life goals.</p>
<p>It depends which school though. At my school where 50% of the kids are greek no one can possibly fit the stereotypical frat/sor image. Sure, some do, but the majority do not. I'll probably rush and I definetely didn't think myself as a "frat boy".</p>
<p>Speaking as a so-called "frat boy," I take offense to all the generalizations that have been made. Just because a guy decides to join a fraternity does not mean he instantly becomes a misogynistic beer-swilling jock. Granted, there are many guys (greek <em>and</em> independent) who fit the Animal House stereotype, but there are just as many (and probably more) who do not. It depends on the school, the environment, the fraternity and the person.</p>
<p>Frat boys in general, I don't know.
My boyfriend's roommates, though, seem pretty standard for my school, and they'll come in (actually, be dragged in) stumbling drunk and need to try climbing the ladders to their lofts about five times. At three to four in the morning. On Thursday, Saturday, and sometimes even Fridays.
Or if they decide to stay in instead of go party, they'll get mildly drunk, then stoned.</p>
<p>wanting to be a frat boy does not necessarily mean that you want to be a misogynistic beer-drinker... however, I do think that it points towards what your life goals are. For example, most guys who do well in frat houses could be considered the alpha-male type, with a type a personality and the career goals that go with that (stockbroker, surgeon, etc...) The same goes for legacy types... even if they don't fit that description, their parents career goals for them are most likely the same, and if their parents convinced them to become a frat boy, then it will be pretty easy to get them to jump on the money train.</p>
<p>my older brother is in a top fraternity and fits this description... career goals in medicine, alpha-male, type a... but not every frat boy fits the "player" stereotype. The funny thing about my brother joining a frat was that pre-frat he was definitely a player, but soon after he joined he decided he wanted to settle down and has had a serious girlfriend for a year or so.</p>
<p>"in general, are they dating girls"</p>
<p>ok stop right there
Dating is not really the point of being in a frat
Of course that doesn't mean "frat boys" don't date but it's certainly not the norm--hooking up is much more common than dating</p>
<p>Awwww I love my DSP boys. They are so awesome. And a lot of the have girlfriends. They date. It all depends on the frat/school. I love those boys.</p>
<p>There are all sorts of frats, the popular high school type guys in some, geeks in others and everything in between. This is just dumb.</p>
<p>Well, what I said is still true, suze...hooking up is much more common than dating in college. And I don't think anyone is going to argue that being in a frat makes you more likely to date than to hook up</p>
<p>Frats are cool :)
That's what I think.</p>
<p>"most of the girls i know instantly cross a guy OFF their list when they find out he's a frat boy." - I agree, most girls I know won't date a frat boy unless the guy is an extreme exception to the traditional frat boy image.
I see frat boys as guys that constantly drink & party, are chauvinistic, and don't have meaningful relationships with women.
The boys I knew from high school that joined frats were nice nerds in high school but turned into idiot jerks that I can't stand after joining the frat.</p>
<p>Our house has roughly 30 guys (and 16 pledges), and I'd say about half of them have steady girlfriends. I can count the "hook up with everyone" kind of guys you are envisioning on one hand. Everybody else is respectful to the girls that come to our house and aren't much different than the independents.</p>
<p>Then again, I go to a nerdy engineering school (RPI), so things are most likely different here than at say, UCLA. The point is, you can't make generalizations about a group of people that numbers in the hundreds of thousands.</p>
<p>Not another one of these lets trash the frat boy threads.</p>
<p>Depends on the frat. If they party all the time they could cause a problem on the campus or burn their house down (a buddy told me about a frat that did that). But if it's something like one of those music frats (I've got a buddy in one of them) that's cool. I just don't want to see someone get hurt at a frat house or as a result of frat boys/sorority girls.</p>
<p>Initiations should be GONE if they're going to have frats. I thought what they had our HS soccer team do as freshmen (the worst was rubbing ben gay on a certain area of the male body) was bad, so I don't even want to know about frats.</p>
<p>What annoys me about frats and sorrorities though are those shirts they insist on wearing with those greek letters on them. They just look sort of silly (although I guess I shouldn't talk, I've been chastized by people for having ABERCROMBIE written all over my tee shirts that I wore to Disney World with the marching band at my high school..yeah, we were encouraged to wear our band shirts and I packed all A&F, this one chaperone kept calling me "Abercrombie").</p>
<p>Abercrombie is not preppy there, buckaroo. Take the gel out of your hair and go try actually playing a round of golf. </p>
<p>"Initiations should be GONE if they're going to have frats." - I think you are referring to the process called New Member Education, and that is necessary. Plus, anything you'd have to do today is a fraction of what they had to do in the good 'ol days.</p>
<p>Fraternities are great, if fraternities are what you want. For me, the whole fraternity experience is great. </p>
<p>There are all types of fraternities. I'd guess most CCers would be more into SigEp type fraternities (no hazing, balanced man programs - usually highest GPAs on campus). </p>
<p>I'm in a more traditional Southern style fraternity. I love it.</p>
<p>If only the weather were a bit nicer here...golf sounds like a good idea right about now. Been a little while since I last golfed now.</p>
<p>So what all does "New Member Education" consist of these days? Is it basically a form of hazing/initiation and what all is involved with it?</p>
<p>SigEp would be like the one for ed majors, right?</p>
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Our house has roughly 30 guys (and 16 pledges), and I'd say about half of them have steady girlfriends.</p>
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<p>Then again, I go to a nerdy engineering school (RPI), so things are most likely different here than at say, UCLA.
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wait, there are enough girls to go around at RPI now? Or does your house have a monopoly on females as far as your eyes can see?</p>
<p>When my mom went there, the ratio was literally 35 to 1. They did her homework just so they could talk to her. They would've carried her from class to class if she'd wanted.</p>