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I don't think it is racist but i do think it just perpectuates a stereotype of greeks-slutty sorosity girls and sex-crazed drunk fraternity men. ive been to one of these types of parties and its just an excuse for girls to dress slutty, which honestly, alot of these people do already. Many 'party-girls' dress liek this regularly when they go out to parties anyway.
Why not try something fun that is not going to reflect negatively on the entire greek community. How bout an 80s party? Or disco? Those are so much fun, the costumes usually end up great, and you can go all out on the theme with music, posters, food, and games to go with the era. Sock hops can be cool. I've even heard of a high society party that turned out really well; everyone dressed up super posh and they all looked great and had a good time.
Other theme ideas: beach/tiki/luau/Caribean/jungle party (think girls and guys in bikinis-same effect as pimps and hoes kinda and use appropriate music-ie beach boys or jamacian, etc.), hoedown, night at the oscars/grammys, fiesta (chips and salsa and magaritas (mocktails work too), shipwrecked (pirates, hawaiian garb, etc.), you can do a theme around any tv show/movie pretty much (ie. gilligans island-everyone can dress as one of the characters and you can select the best of each character to win prizes), PJ party, masquerade ball (everyone must have a fun mask), villians and superheroes, middle school dance (think girls on one side, guys on the other, cheesy slow dance music and spin the bottle), sports fans (aka people wearing their favorite teams jersey and painted faces), nerds (come as the nerdiest frat guy or sorority girl a la Lambda Lambda Lambda), cross dressing/gender swap (guys in girls clothes is always funny), PUNK...there is no end to the more innocent party themes
Or instead of having a lets get trashed party, why not do something fun that is alcohol-free. Examples of this are bowling, chuck-e-cheese, board game night(we did one of these with Alpha Sigma Phi and it really was a blast-we played guess who and other games!!), roller skating (mix this with a 70s theme, like in Van Wilder), have a campfire with stupid camp songs and s'mores, amusement park trips, murder mystery game thing...find out what people like and try it out.
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