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[silent helper]

For brothers in co ed chapters is it kool if we call gamma sigs sorors even though we are girls in a APO?

[GoldnBlue2004]

YES!

[gamma_girl52]

Originally posted by silent helper
For brothers in co ed chapters is it kool if we call gamma sigs sorors even though we are girls in a APO?

Hmmm...well...I wouldn't say all that.

Truthfully, some of my sorors WOULDN'T like that and would never address you as "frat". Not all, but SOME. I wouldn't. Actually I'd bristle up a little bit if you called me "soror" and you were a female. When I came in I was taught that the "bruh" and "soror" exchange was just between APO men and GSS women. Call it old age I guess, but I'd never call you "frat". No disrespect, I just think that's a term for guys.

I know a couple of APO members that are female, and we are very cool (hey Attractive!!) like that...however...we do not address each other as "frat" or "soror". I might be like "Hey Girl, what's up" or something to that effect and exchange a hug. I'm not a jerk. I'll speak to you if you speak to me, but to be real I've seen my sorors completely ignore APO female members and go STRAIGHT to the guys, and I'm not personally cool with that.

I'm not saying it's all THAT serious because it's not...but I did want to clarify. Most of the time it's on that soror on how she wants to receive you on that level.

[33girl]

Originally posted by silent helper
For brothers in co ed chapters is it kool if we call gamma sigs sorors even though we are girls in a APO?

It depends.

[GoldnBlue2004]

Yeah it does depend on the relationship.

[Sister Havana]

I'm not comfortable doing that. We did not have a Gamma Sig chapter on my campus. I heard about them from a friend of mine who was a Brother at Clemson, where the chapter is all-male. He mentioned that they did stuff with Gamma Sigs at times and that Gamma Sig is a service sorority, but that was the extent of my knowledge. It was only after I joined GC that I found out much about them. I'd probably feel differently if we'd had a chapter at IU and that chapter was as tight with our APO chapter as some of the GSS/APO chapters are at other places.

[bro_strawter]

no

[naraht]

I'm at the completely opposite end of the scale. I wouldn't call anyone in either Alpha Phi Omega or Gamma Sigma Sigma "frat" or "soror". I use Brother with other members of Alpha Phi Omega and Sister for female members of Alpha Phi Omega who specifically request it of me. (Mu Alpha at Georgetown is one of the few chapters I know of that has had female members who want to be called sister.

As for members of Gamma Sigma Sigma, I appreciate the relationship on the campuses where there is a tight relationship and love to see what you all do.

I *still* wonder what would have happened if sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, someone had proposed the type of relationship between APO & GSS that ZPBS has or even KKY/TBS...

Randy

[Sister Havana]

I am with you Randy - if you're in APO, you're my Brother. Simple as that.

[33girl]

Originally posted by naraht
KKY/TBS...

Do you mean before they both went coed?

[gamma_girl52]

Originally posted by bro_strawter
no

How come I only see you in here during those "questionable" threads?

[bro_strawter]

Originally posted by gamma_girl52
How come I only see you in here during those "questionable" threads?

[silent helper]

thanks guys. I was wondering because I have family who are brothers and Gamma Sig and we jokingly call each other frat and soror. But I never tried it with other chapters because I wasn't sure. But like many of you said it depends on different chapters. Thanks so much for your input.

[gamma_girl52]

Originally posted by silent helper
thanks guys. I was wondering because I have family who are brothers and Gamma Sig and we jokingly call each other frat and soror

Are they in APO AND GSS together or....

[silent helper]

no my two female cousins are GSS and me and my male cousins are APO.