http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=84070

There's an educated, well-thought out response somewhere in the middle.

By the way, there are tons of threads about the use of the word "frat". This thread's just one POV of many.

lmao @ that "frat" thread...yeah son was an idiot with him analogy, and the other dude elephant walk too...

The explanation I received in college was: you wouldn't call your country a c**t so you shouldn't call your fraternity a frat. :D

I'm not going to deny fraternity members who wish others to not use "frat," but I have always thought that analogy to be ridiculous. The c-word is a dirty word in common vernacular, whereas frat does not carry the same connotation.

Regardless, I will never refer to a fraternity as a frat, but it is out of respect to those men who have expressed such. Other fraternity men don't care and call it a frat, frat brothers, etc. I think it depends on where you are from.

Didn't we just have this same discussion last week?

And last year and several times before.

I don't use the word "frat." Nor do I use "frat brother."

Some do, and that's OK, but personally I think it sounds demeaning.

As for the "c" word analogy -- it's silly.

That topic again? Really?

Yes, we did, starting here.

Really. :rolleyes:

And the "would you call your country . . . " comparison is still just as lame as it was last week, and last month, and last year, and the year before that . . . .