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Originally Posted by IvySpice
Probably both. They perceive parties at fraternity houses to be an imbalance of power -- the men own the space, they control the alcohol, etc. If women are throwing the party, there's a better balance. Since the locals can have a bar in the basement of whatever just like the fraternities do, they can have open parties for the campus where both male and female non-members can attend.
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A stance with which I absolutely, completely, 1000% agree.
Peppy, if you'll look at some of the locals' pages, the reason they broke away from their national to begin with was because of what they perceived as old-fashioned and antifeminist attitudes about the role of women in the Greek system and society at large.
It's not "we have to have alcohol so we can parteeee", it's "the men have it, so we should have it also." The same would apply if only men could have intramural teams or houses.