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Originally posted by SAI22
I am sick to death about hearing from members from PMA that we don't know what we are because Fraternity means Brotherhood.
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You can pass along to my good brothers that it is actually quite common for women's GLOs to be called "fraternities" (or "fraternities for women"). In fact, I think you'll find that the official name of most NPC "sororities" (15 of 26 by my count) is actually "fraternity," such as "Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity," "Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity," "Pi Beta Phi Fraternity," etc. I know that Ms. MysticCat's KKG publications always refer to KKG as a "Fraternity."
The word "sorority" didn't exist until it was coined for Gamma Phi Beta in 1874.
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http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforums...threadid=48182