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Originally posted by Attractive#7
It's funny you say all of this. I am a brother. I am called brother or frat all the time. I don't have a problem with this. I will call one of my female apo brothers frat in a minute, and don't think much of it. I detest someone attempting to call me a sister. Someone even asked if I was a bruhor once...I was like hhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeccccccccccck naw. I know a lot of the guys who have a problem with calling me brother are not b/c they want to date me *even though I am Attractive * it goes back to the all male thing. You might not feel this way, and that's cool. I have never had a personal conversation with you, so I can not say how you feel; but I can say from personal conversations with other brothers that's the idea I get from a lot of them. About the GSS thing, I hear that they are their soror's not their sisters.
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The Dictionary defined Fraternity as:
\Fra*ter"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Fraternities. [F. fraternit['e], L. fraternitas.] 1. The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
2. A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
3. Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
The Dictionary also defined Brother as:
1. A male having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.
2. pl. often breth·ren (brthrn) One who shares a common ancestry, allegiance, character, or purpose with another or others, especially:
A kinsman.
A fellow man.
A fellow member, as of a fraternity, trade union, or panel of judges on a court.
A close male friend; a comrade.
A fellow African-American man or boy.
3. pl. often brethren Something, such as a corporation or institution, that is regarded as a member of a class: “A station that... relies on corporate contributions or advertising to survive runs the risk of becoming virtually indistinguishable from its commercial brethren” (W. John Moore).