Sorositute

[UGAalum94]

Is anything on Urban Dictionary fun and endearing?

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Is anything on Urban Dictionary fun and endearing?

I really didn't need Urban Dictionary to tell me the term is slanderous and offensive. It was raised in another post and it clearly indicates the negative way it is defined and used "out there". To pretend it's "just a joke" is ignorant and ignores how nasty the intent behind the word is. No greek should stand for it or perpetuate it, male or female.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

I really didn't need Urban Dictionary to tell me the term is slanderous and offensive. It was raised in another post and it clearly indicates the negative way it is defined and used "out there". To pretend it's "just a joke" is ignorant and ignores how nasty the intent behind the word is. No greek should stand for it or perpetuate it, male or female.

I'm not going to get really wound up about a term that originated based on a stereotype of a materialist, promiscuous, superficial, anti-intellectual rare subgroup that has now come to be used and laughed AT by the women most likely to be harmed by the stereotype.

I'd prefer that no one use the term absolutely. But it's foolish to establish use of the term as some sort of misogynistic litmus test, especially for those of us who don't have a lot of experience with anyone using the term in real life.

[SWTXBelle]

I don't know about a "litmus test", but if I didn't know much about you, and you used that term, I would certainly think less of you than I would if you had not. Who would be impressed with someone using it? Perhaps it is popular within a peer group, but again, you can't count on it not being offensive.
Actually, I imagine most 18 - 24 year olds who use it don't think what it implies or suggests. But I think they should.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I'm not going to get really wound up about a term that originated based on a stereotype of a materialist, promiscuous, superficial, anti-intellectual rare subgroup that has now come to be used and laughed AT by the women most likely to be harmed by the stereotype.

I'd prefer that no one use the term absolutely. But it's foolish to establish use of the term as some sort of misogynistic litmus test, especially for those of us who don't have a lot of experience with anyone using the term in real life.

Well you can think whatever you like is "foolish", but aren't you establishing your own kind of litmus test to this conversation then? Greek women should have more pride than to let "sorostitute" become an accepted part of the terminology used about or among them. And greek men should take more care in the use of it as well. I don't care where it "originated" from, it's a demeaning term and it's meant to refer to greek women as "less than".

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I don't know about a "litmus test", but if I didn't know much about you, and you used that term, I would certainly think less of you than I would if you had not. Who would be impressed with someone using it? Perhaps it is popular within a peer group, but again, you can't count on it not being offensive.
Actually, I imagine most 18 - 24 year olds who use it don't think what it implies or suggests. But I think they should.

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Well you can think whatever you like is "foolish", but aren't you establishing your own kind of litmus test to this conversation then? Greek women should have more pride than to let "sorostitute" become an accepted part of the terminology used about or among them. And greek men should take more care in the use of it as well. I don't care where it "originated" from, it's a demeaning term and it's meant to refer to greek women as "less than".

I'm not making any judgments about the people who are really horrified by this usage other than that they may misread the deep emotions of the college kids using the term. It's not that I like people more for using the term or wouldn't prefer that they didn't.

I think if you were somehow able to eradicate the use of the word "sorostitute" some other term would creep into replace it because the stereotypical behaviors the term addresses would still be evident in some young women.

Now it's certainly possible that the term replacing it might be a whole lot less offensive since it wouldn't involved "prostitute," but back in my day we had "bow heads" and we know that we have "barbie doll chapters" today.

But a bunch of alumnae and more feminist undergraduates working themselves up over the term probably gives its users more satisfaction and the term more new life than ignoring it would. Some young people particularly like to do the very things that more grown up people think are wicked.

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

But a bunch of alumnae and more feminist undergraduates working themselves up over the term probably gives its users more satisfaction and the term more new life than ignoring it would. Some young people particularly like to do the very things that more grown up people think are wicked.

You don't have to be a feminist to be offended by being called a prostitute.

And your solution, since another word would pop up, is to just let it go?

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

You don't have to be a feminist to be offended by being called a prostitute.

And your solution, since another word would pop up, is to just let it go?

Co-sign.

If you feel the earth shift a little bit, that's our collective founders, rolling over in their graves.

[ZTA72]

Since I'm way old and I have daughters who are currently actives, I find this term very offensive. Some things are beyond explaining.
ZTA72