UGa Chi Phis declared 'open season' on black women?

[LaneSig]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

You are very ignorant.

It's not really a question of what is offensive. I think it's more classless then offensive. There are better things to do with ones time.

What does UGA have anything to do with it? Anything? Remind me again, where all the race riots have occurred in the last 15 - 20 years? Philly, LA, and so on. The ignorance comes from within the ghettoes of these cities, not from the middle class South.

"Being called ignorant by a regular Greekchatter is like being called racist by a liberal, you know they're losing the argument." - Elephant Walk, Sept. 5, 2006 9:40 pm "AOPi at Arkansas" thread.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Soul D-Psi-ple

My point exactly.

Really?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Doesnt some one get offended about something or offended by anything!

When it comes to white on black, it gets press, when it comes on black on white then it is a cover up?

Tom, it's not really press, it's just some race baiting jagoff who thought they should write an editorial to inflame racial tensions.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Did you attend the Dan Quayle School of Spelling?

Just curious, what was the reason for the spelling be post? Should this be reported?

Eveveryone has a bad hair day, how about you?


Kevin, of course it is as some or most of us should know.



But, as a conjuntive adjactive some find more different.

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by Soul D-Psi-ple

It WAS offensive if black women do find it offensive. That's reality. Y'ALL do not find it offensive because you are not in their shoes. Many of y'all are quick to down play the situation when something like this happens....

Anyways, I'm not surprised by this. It is UGA after all.

Who is debating whether black women would find it offensive? I am sure some did. I am sure a lot of people who are not black women find this offensive. That is what makes this incident so dumb- that is was a pointless public exhibition that served no purpose whatsoever.

But this is a free country and this was freedom of expression- even if that freedom was exercised in the poorest of taste.

The punishment for being offensive is that your reputation suffers in the public eye.

Yet now there are people on this thread who think Chi Phi should be kicked off campus even though, a) we don't have all the facts and, b) individuals on this forum- myself included- have offered some more insight into why this particular incident, given the facts presented, is not a clear cut case of wrongdoing by Chi Phi as a chapter or national organization.

But to top it off, you have now said "This is UGA after all" and you are making a definitive statement about a 30,000 member University based on the actions of 7 freshman who made a very bad decision.

This is the kind of thing that kills civil debate. I and others have tried to frame a discussion around this which gets to very important issues about Risk Management and how an adult should behave when representing himself and another group of people.

And the response from some has been to say basically,

1. White men
2. Fraternity
3. Southern University
4. Guilty
5. Kick a whole chapter of a fraternity off campus (and out of school too no doubt if some of you had your way)

How does that attitude to anything to better anybody's situation here? How is that a rational response to what really happened here?

Last time I looked this was GreekChat.com. How is the turn this thread has taken doing anything to forward forum members' understanding and handling of a situation that involves a fraternal organization?

[Firehouse]

OK, the fact is that these guys are idiots, and that puts them solidly in a large category of college students. I don't know if freedom of expression is enough to get the fraternity off the hook for this aprticular act of stupidity.

However, it's interesting that had Chi Phi members been participatng in some sort of sophomoric sociology experiment churned out by some grad student, the whole thing would be written off as an academic exercise ("We were tryin to record the reaction of random people, man.").

Chi Phi would be wise to shut up, apologize to everyone, and lay low for awhile.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Have fun being poor and hairy.

Why would you assume that because I take Women's Studies classes that A) it is my major and future career path and B) I am a hairy person? I am NOT a feminist, but I do identify with many of the issues that they tackle because I am a woman. We are learning in our course how many woman avoid feminism because people (like yourself for example) like to make negative and offensive remarks that broadly stereotype their physical characteristics, sexuality, and career choices. We are also discussing how men (the dominant class) use "scare tactics" like your words above to discourage (whether knowingly doing so or not) women from defending their rights because of the dominant patriachal society that has been with us since the dawn of man/woman. I don't have a problem with ANYONE taking their clothes off to make money, but I do have a problem with someone feeling that it is okay to expose these pictures to those who are not willing viewers. Even now if someone wants to debate whether it's sexist or racist, that's fine, they have the right to do so. But I (as is ME MYSELF AND I AND NOT SPEAKING FOR ANY OTHER PERSON BUT MYSELF) firmly believe that tolerance of such acts (like the ones committed), if not addressed and immediately dealt with, give the impression that behavior like this is okay. And it's NOT OKAY.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

Why would you assume that because I take Women's Studies classes that A) it is my major and future career path and B) I am a hairy person? I am NOT a feminist, but I do identify with many of the issues that they tackle because I am a woman. We are learning in our course how many woman avoid feminism because people (like yourself for example) like to make negative and offensive remarks that broadly stereotype their physical characteristics, sexuality, and career choices. We are also discussing how men (the dominant class) use "scare tactics" like your words above to discourage (whether knowingly doing so or not) women from defending their rights because of the dominant patriachal society that has been with us since the dawn of man/woman.

I used to be on the "I'm NOT a feminist" tangent because I bought into the (gendered) stereotypes.

For clarity's sake:
There are different waves and extremes of feminism since the formal feminist wave of the 1970s. All that aside, being a (male or female) feminist simply means that you believe in equality across sex and gender.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Firehouse

However, it's interesting that had Chi Phi members been participatng in some sort of sophomoric sociology experiment churned out by some grad student, the whole thing would be written off as an academic exercise ("We were tryin to record the reaction of random people, man.").

At many institutions, the students AND instructors/faculty member(s) in charge would be subject to disciplinary action.

ETA: No TAs with a grain of brain and ethics would think up such an exercise for undergraduates. But if they did, they would be smart enough to consult the sociology department and Institutional Review Board (IRB) beforehand.

[Elephant Walk]

"Being called ignorant by a regular Greekchatter is like being called racist by a liberal, you know they're losing the argument." - Elephant Walk, Sept. 5, 2006 9:40 pm "AOPi at Arkansas" thread.

That woul be a death knell quote....if I were a regular Greekchatter. However, by calling me one is a pretty good offense...and there was no argument.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I used to be on the "I'm NOT a feminist" tangent because I bought into the (gendered) stereotypes.

For clarity's sake:
There are different waves and extremes of feminism since the formal feminist wave of the 1970s. All that aside, being a (male or female) feminist simply means that you believe in equality across sex and gender.

I say that I'm not a feminist because for me it means being an active advocate for the rights of females. At this point in time, while I gladly stand up for my rights as best as I can, I don't have time to pursue them heavily. Perhaps when I'm older with a steady, proper job then I will devote more time to raising awareness for the worldwide injustice towards women. Right now, I'm just trying to make it through college!

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

I say that I'm not a feminist because for me it means being an active advocate for the rights of females.

That's not what it means, though.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

That woul be a death knell quote....if I were a regular Greekchatter. However, by calling me one is a pretty good offense...and there was no argument.

Huh? LOL

This retort is as humorous as when you argued that slavery was anti-capitalism.

[Elephant Walk]

I don't want to argue it here...but how is there any possible way that slavery could pro-capitalism? How? seriously, slavery is the antithesis of capitalism. Slavery mixes well with mercantilism, but that's borderline fascism.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

That's not what it means, though.

:light bulb: hey babypink, how bout you readjust that definition for us at the end of the semester sweets?

i dont know why women (or men) are afraid to identify with feminism. anyone who has some college education should know that feminism is not all the non-shaven, man-hating, equal-rights-wanting nonsense one thinks it is. and like sistergreek DSTCHAOS said, there are different waves of feminism that may or may not fit to your "i'm NOT a feminism" attitude.

to quote one of my professors (who considered herself feminist and womanist) re: feminism:

"when i realized that my opinion mattered, people were willing to listen to my opinion, and was no longer afraid to share it, that's when i knew i was a feminist, and furthermore a woman." think about that when you say "my opinion is just my opinion."

i know, i digress, but such is the state of GC these days. carry on.