I hate the stereotype questions....I've even had someone ask me (a girl going through recruitment, actually): "So what is your nickname with the Fraternities and stuff?"
Me: "Well, most people shorten our name to APhi.."
She interupts : "No, I mean like your other nickname...like the DZ's are the "easy DZs" (sorry Delta zeta, her words, not mine!)....you know, the one that describes you guys."
I was shocked, who asks that??

I always loved this one...
"Who is your brother fraternity" (or sister sorority)

You're still active in a sorority although you graduated from college?

My favorites:

-So you're a GAY society, right? (Referring to Kappa Sigma which has a typical diversity of members).
-So the fraternity helps you out in college and you pay them back after (Sort of, only the guy asking was thinking it was like the Skulls and financial success and remarkable libido came with your pin).
-I'm not feeling much zeal. If I sign up, will this change? The answer given by the recruiter at our very first meeting was, "Yes. You get a bag of zeal when you join.".

Thomas

that's also on my favorites list.

yeah, see, the whole word takes way too long to say, at least to me :) LOL

Usually the guys saying ADP are the type who wouldn't know Pi from Pee, if you'll pardon the expression. And they'll get just about that far in life, too. :p

This wasn't annoying so much as bizarre ... I'd been working with this man (an African American man who aside from this incident was very intelligent) for weeks and one day he noticed my Delta keychain. He looks at me and asks me, in all seriousness: "Hey, you're black?"

The most annoying question I get asked a LOT is "Why didn't you join a white sorority?" I don't mind if Sorors ask me those sorts of questions; I expect that. But when someone (especially a member of an NPC group) asks me a question phrased like that, it really irks me - I wouldn't go up to them and ask them why they didn't choose my Sorority; it's rude. I also hate the insinuation that my decision must have somehow been a race thing. Like I joined Delta to insult white people everywhere or something. :rolleyes:

While I don't really hate too many questions asked (most of them at least), it always annoys me when people pronounce Alpha Phi Alpha, "Alpha 'Phee' Alpha". I could see if some reclusive Alpha Phi said it once or something, but when a professional announcer butchers it, after they've been told the correct pronunciation, just makes me shake my head. It happened during a homecoming parade a couple years back.

this guy i used to date calls every sorority "Delta."

example: Oh, you IN one of those "Deltas" (i assume as opposed to you in one of those sororities)

or

what kinda "Delta" are you? :confused:

dammit he was cute, but dumb as a brick. :o

I don't know how I missed the above before. I promise;) I didn't laugh a little when I read it.

It's like calling all forms of soda "Coke!"

"Are you an A-Chi-O?" Yeah, because omicron and chi look so similar...as do omega and pi right? IDIOTS!

"Did you get hazed?" My usual response, "Yes daily, hovever we only did pillow fights only on fridays that were even numbered dates though."

this reminds me of my grandma saying that my AKA cousins are "Deltas like OOhSoFly but they wears different colors..." then she'll tell people how much I love my fraternity like my uncle Jerry (who is a Kappa)...:confused:...its really sweet in a senile kinda way....:p

Actually, that's pretty cool...I didn't know that white people (no offense) were allowed to join historically black GLOs. :)

I understand why you get both questions. We like to categorize and presume things by race and adding "predominantly (insert race)" organizations helps us to do that. It is annoying that people can be judged as "self-hating" if they join a predominently (insert racial category) group.

This is a general comment and not in response to your post:
One thing that annoys me is when nonblacks join a historically black org and say that race wasn't a factor. They often say that to be safe, which I understand because words and intentions get misconstrued. Race may not have been a factor in an insulting or stereotypical manner. But it should've been a factor given our rich histories and the communities that our philanthropy targets more often than not.

That is adorable.

When I crossed I had an annoying sticker on the back of my car :o and people would say "you're a Krappa" or "you're a Que?" As a neo I was militantly correcting people. As the years went on, I saved my corrections for people who may give a darn. We aren't hardly as important to EVERYONE (in terms of recognition) as we like to think that we are. :) And that's fine.

At the collegiate level, there are more opportunities to know the different groups but at the alumnae level we're dealing with people in the community--some who know us, some who don't and don't care, and some who don't but want to be around us anyway. They should all come and support, maybe those who don't know will learn about the different groups. If they don't learn, they can still reap the benefits of our services and say "one of those red and white fraternities had a fundraiser." :D

Actually there is more than one way to pronounce a couple of letters in the Greek Alphabet, Phi being one of them, Xi another. Still if he was already informed how we pronounce it and still butchered it than:mad:

I've had people ask me why I joined a fraternity period. They compared joining fraternities and sororities to cult groups where people just want to belong.........!!!

Won't it really give us Greeks a chance to explain to them what it is all about?

it's already been said, but definitely "why did you join THAT?" and sometimes the version "why didn't you just join a WHITE sorority?" OR (my personal favorite) "what, they wouldn't take you in a REAL sorority, so you made one up?" i'm sure my founders would be very surprised to know that i started lambda psi delta!!

Why did you join a sorority?

And

How do you get hazed?

Because I like to drink and slut around...after they beat me senseless.

I'm a neo but I had the most annoying conversation in the library yesterday:

Intrested girl: I didn't know you was in them Zeta's
Me: Yes I am a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
IG: Ohh okay, are you all having any events soon?
Me: well, we aren't having any right now( she interupts before I can finish)
IG: Ohh, can you call me when you have something.

At this point, she proceeds to write her number down for me. I later put it in the trash.

Oh my, Zeta13Girl that article is horrific...honestly I'm surprised they printed it at all. It makes me so sad that people think that way about the greek community:(

LMAO!
Double LMAO!

Personally I would have said, "You have to pay to go to college, too."

I was out grocery shopping and while standing in line..a guy behind me asks about my jacket my ...before I could say anything he then asks if I was in a dance troop??? I told him that I was in a sorority and he was like ooohhhh...then he was like can you show me a step...I gave him the gas face and walked away!!

in a related story, my sister asked me about a sorority at her school who wore black and yellow jackets that had 5 letters. im like WTF? so i went to her campus one day and she pointed them out... they were a campus dance troupe that had jackets, complete with names and their troup name spelled out.

ok thats my sister's bad, assuming that their troupe name was greek letters...

but i too hate the whole "can you do a step?" like its a magic trick we greeks just pull out our line jacket sleeves. sheesh.

lmaooooooo @ like its a magic trick we just pull out...
lol, thats real talk tho!!! i hate that too!!! i dont step, i stroll...so when someone asks me to bust out a step, i definitely give them the WTF look! and even if i did step, i still wouldnt do it for them...i aint shucking and jiving for you...

WOW. Just WOW.http://www.smilieshq.com/smilies/indifferent0001.gif

I was thinking that the question, "can you do a step?" reminded me of seeing a man with a monkey on the sidewalk. Give the monkey a quarter and watch him dance!:p

that is such a horrible opinion about greek life! as both a sorority member and an editor for my student newspaper, i'm truly appalled of the fact that this junk did get published

my favorite question i have received so far? "if you started as a music fraternity, then why are there no music majors in it any more?"

>we are so here!< im the pRHOp woman of the stepshow... you know, the one who says, rholl the music... yeah. so i damn sure aint gonna bust out a step for you.

Not you, but I know there are NPHCers who have forgotten how to spell because they've done the cutesy misspelling thing for so long. :p

Why, DSTCHAOS, I'm so konfused...who in the world kould you EVER be talking about??? I'm looking at my komputer skreen, and it's klear to me that all GreekKhatters know how to spell impekkably well.:confused::confused:

Now take that from your computer screen and put that on a college research paper. :eek::p

ETA: It reminds me of how the younger people are using chat-speak on middle and high school homework assignments. These are the college students of the future. We need serious intervention.

Sadly, it isn't just the middle and high school assignments that are being submitted in chat-speak. One of my students turned in a paper that consistently used 'b4' throughout the whole paper. I circled it every time. He then asked me, "Did you count off for this? How many points?" :rolleyes:

I hate that everytime I wear my letters, someone who doesn't know how to read it automaticlly assumes that it says AKA.

I had a license plate on my car that just said 1908. I was at the car wash one time and a guy came up to me and said "Now I know your car ain't that old, what's that mean?" I told him it was the year my sorority, AKA, was founded. He said "No it isn't. My sister tried to be one back in the early 70s and they wasn't at her school."

Get out of my head! :D