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Originally posted by 33girl
the non-obscene options are "would you call your mother a moth?" or "would you call a sorority a sore?"
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Non-obscene, but still stupid because unlike "frat," "moth" and "sore" are actual words with meanings one wouldn't want to associate with mothers and sororities.
No, I wouldn't call my mother a "moth," but I would call her a "mom." Disrespectful?
I guess it's also disrespectful to say "CalTech" instead of "California Institute of Technology," or, say, "Pitt" instead of "University of Pittsburgh"? ("Pitt" is especially bad -- are we saying that it's "the pits"?)
We shorten words and names in English all the time. Far from being considered disrespectful, it's often considered a way of showing endearment or, at least, comfortable familiarity. The only reason some people (very few, if any, of whom I have "met" anywhere other than GC, I would note) have a problem with "frat" is because of the connotations summoned up for some in the general population by terms like "frat party" and "frat house." It's PC masquarading as PR, pure and simple.