How do you respond....

[ljkelly]

Originally Posted by 1908Revelations

I think it is strange when men call me Soror. This Alpha that teaches at my schoool said, "Good morning Soror" I was like and I just said Hello, but I thought that was strange!!!

All the Alphas I know call me "Soror" and all the AKAs I know call Alphas "Frat"...I didn't know that was different in different places.

[SummerChild]

Same here Soror. I actually like being called "soror" by frat.

Originally Posted by ljkelly

All the Alphas I know call me "Soror" and all the AKAs I know call Alphas "Frat"...I didn't know that was different in different places.

[ljkelly]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

Same here Soror. I actually like being called "soror" by frat.

me too.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by ljkelly

All the Alphas I know call me "Soror" and all the AKAs I know call Alphas "Frat"...I didn't know that was different in different places.

I'm always very careful about that. Since I came in through an alumni chapter, I am mostly around grad chapter ladies. And you never know how or when someone was brought in, so I wait for the woman to call me frat first before I call her soror. Last thing I want is to be clowned by an old soror.

I'm also the same way about hugging AKAs I don't know. I ALWAYS extend my hand first. Sometimes the ladies will look at me with the screw face and say "We fam, fam hugs!" But I know my frat be getting their grope on sometimes, so I make sure to err on the side of a gentleman.

[ljkelly]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I'm always very careful about that. Since I came in through an alumni chapter, I am mostly around grad chapter ladies. And you never know how or when someone was brought in, so I wait for the woman to call me frat first before I call her soror. Last thing I want is to be clowned by an old soror.

I'm also the same way about hugging AKAs I don't know. I ALWAYS extend my hand first. Sometimes the ladies will look at me with the screw face and say "We fam, fam hugs!" But I know my frat be getting their grope on sometimes, so I make sure to err on the side of a gentleman.

Yes, you do have a point. I am in a grad chapter now and none of the older Sorors (we have some OLD Sorors) call Alphas Frat, but some of the younger Sorors do...maybe it is a generational thing.

All the undergraduate Alphas in the chapter of at my school use to and still say Soror but my BF who is from that chapter will not. He is very anal about keeping the two orgs very separate. It took him a year before we could get the combo keychain!

[lovelyivy84]

I like the AKA/Alpha bond too, although I can do without the groping, lol. I don't address just any Alpha that way though- I have to like you or have a good feeling about you.

I have heard a lot of Eastern stars refer to their sistars, but soror is a new one.

[Professor]

I had opportunity to meet Sister White last year in DC. My chapter brother asked her about the appropriateness of calling AKAs sorors. Sister White stated it was protocol but only men of Alpha Phi Alpha should call the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors.

In NC Alphas and AKAs refer to each other as frat and soror. Unless I'm very close to an AKA, in public I often say this my sister. However, if someone asks me if I know xyz I do say she is my soror. Ultimately, I guess it is a regional thing. In fact, during my travels many sisters through up the pinkie and if I'm not focusing I will only smile and say hello which is most of the time. However, I will display the alpha sign when I'm relaxed.

[SKEEphistAKAte]

Originally Posted by ljkelly

All the Alphas I know call me "Soror" and all the AKAs I know call Alphas "Frat"...I didn't know that was different in different places.

Most of the Alphas I know either say "Sis" or "Baby Sis". Sometimes there will be an occasional "soror" but it seems odd for a dude to be saying "soror". I usually refer to Alphas as "Pham".

[1908Revelations]

Originally Posted by SKEEphistAKAte

Sometimes there will be an occasional "soror" but it seems odd for a dude to be saying "soror".

That is basically how I feel. I don't think anything is wrong with it, but it just seems a little odd to me.

[Wonderful1908]

We called Alphas frat and they called us sorors, I work with an Alpha and he calls me soror and I call him frat, thats how it was at my HBCU.

We also usually in Pan-Hel meeting would refer to people in other organizations as soror in the third person.

[ljkelly]

Originally Posted by Wonderful1908

We also usually in Pan-Hel meeting would refer to people in other organizations as soror in the third person.

I don't understand... Soror, can you give an example?

[shuwun11]

Hey, how are doing? I was responding to one of my Eastern Star Sistars, I thought it would have showed it. I was saying that I never heard of a Eastern Star sister calling a member of a sorority a soror. We don't even call each other sorors.

[Harmony1908]

As an Eastern Star and AKA I can totally agree that Eastern Stars call each other 'sisters' and AKAs say 'sorors.' Now I have heard the term 'distant sand' in which two different greek organizations cross around the same time or in the same year. Has anyone else heard that?

[Wonderful1908]

Originally Posted by ljkelly

I don't understand... Soror, can you give an example?

Hmm for example the national president of Zeta Phi Beta worked on our campus whenI was in school, so if we were in Pan-hel meeting we might say their president "Soror Carpenter", maybe it was just SU? We did not use it often but sometimes in cases like that we would.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Wonderful1908

Hmm for example the national president of Zeta Phi Beta worked on our campus whenI was in school, so if we were in Pan-hel meeting we might say their president "Soror Carpenter", maybe it was just SU? We did not use it often but sometimes in cases like that we would.

Although I was not in the NPHC as an undergrad, the same applied there at public events. For example, at the annual "Meet the Greeks" everyone on the program was given the title "Soror" or "Frater."