(Disclaimer:These are stories told to me or about me. I don't necessarily share these views!
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I think of myself as a student of human behaviour. One thing that interests me about BGLOs is the stereotypes that get played dwon in public but which people ascribe to nonetheless as a folk reality. A few stories.
I went to a Kappa smoker in college. The Province Polemarch of my area at the time was from my home town and he went to school with my mom. And the 2dn Vice Province Polemarch was a high school classmate. They were there. They gave presentations. I will never forget that the province Polemarch, a very affable and professional man, lost his "Kappa Kool" when he someone asked him about Omega. he said with an ever so slight hint of animosity that "he would not want his son to be an Omega." I knew no Ques, had no Greek relatives, only knew a high school friend who was an Alpha and his brother who would pledge Alpha that year. The only thing I had heard about Omega was negative. I thought that response was a bit mean-spirited and small-minded, given that he was representing his fraternity in an official capacity. I recently met his Kappa son and we hit it off.
A brother in a grad chapter I was a member of in Southern Cali once told the bruhs that he had to have a talk with his son once, who was in college at the time. His son's roomate was a Sigma, and the circle of friends he hung with were Sigmas. So, when the son came home for a vacation break he sat him down and had a man to man talk with him. He told his son: "If you pledge Sigma, don't come home!" He was serious as a heart attack! (He didn't think too much of Sigma!
His son is still not Greek;he's was scared to pledge Omega on his campus. He respects Omega greatly though.
A younger Delta friend, whose mother is die-head DST and her father, a Nupe, told me that her father said that if she married an Omega, he would not walk her down the aisle. (The last boyfriend she had was a Que.
Back in the mid-'80s I met a bruh at a district meeting whom his undergrad chapter bruhs told me about. He was made in the '70s and it was a different day when the "light skinned male" was in vogue. Anyway, he fit this phenotype, the putative Kappa phenotype: tall, handsome, light skinned, curly hair. And the black women on the venerable white Southern campus were smitten with him. The bruhs told me that one time when was walking on the campus a car load of sisters driving by saw him and were so trying to get his attention that they wrecked the car. The bruhs jokingly told these girls that he is a Que, not a Kappa! This bruh is a surgeon now.
I used to teach on a foreign language at seminary Alma Mater. I had husband and wife who were in one of my classes. They were 1.5 generation Korean Americans. When she found out that I was a Que she couldn't believe it. She said: "you're one of those bulldogs."
The husband later told me of a conversation that they had had. He said that she told him that I "acted like an Alpha." We laughed about this!