Male "Sorority" Controversy at Tennessee State

Wolfman · #1 03-02-2007, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by aopirose

OK, I watched the clip and the subject was a bit ... ummm ... bizarre. What I don't get is why the DJ was fired and suspended from school.

What I understood from the news report is that the DJ was suspended from his duties for "outing" the male faux AKA to the wider community at TSU.

What these groups are doing is no way shape or form has anything to do with activities of an "auxiliary" of a sorority, which is not sanctioned anyway. This is on another level altogether.

valkyrie · #2 03-02-2007, 09:04 PM

The video didn't work for me -- I'm assuming these guys are dressing up as women? If that's the case, do we know WHY they're dressing up as women?

KSUViolet06 · #3 03-02-2007, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by valkyrie

The video didn't work for me -- I'm assuming these guys are dressing up as women?

Yep. They sport AKA jackets, shirt, etc & do their calls/hand signs.

#4 03-02-2007, 11:29 PM

"Some of these men joined this underground sorority because they were once rejected from the traditional fraternities."

WTF? Where is the logic in that? I don't get it.

Can't wait to see the rest of them get outed.

aopirose · #5 03-03-2007, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Wolfman

What I understood from the news report is that the DJ was suspended from his duties for "outing" the male faux AKA to the wider community at TSU.

What these groups are doing is no way shape or form has anything to do with activities of an "auxiliary" of a sorority, which is not sanctioned anyway. This is on another level altogether.

Oh, I see about the outing BUT these same pictures have been floating around for months. Some of them had the guys posing without their masks. Weren't they out already or were those pictures of another HAM group? Just wondering.

I guess what I found insulting was that the news report said that they used the same rituals of initation. That is soo suspect.

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Originally Posted by valkyrie

If that's the case, do we know WHY they're dressing up as women?

Apparently, they want to "be" in the real groups that they emulate. Since they have doodads and thusly dudes, that's not possible.

They could have tried Rho Tau or Tri-Ess. They may have fit in better.

Stef the Pef · #6 03-03-2007, 12:35 AM

For some reason, I thought the MiAKA pics they used in that were from Texas Southern, too.

ladygreek · #7 03-03-2007, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Stef the Pef

For some reason, I thought the MiAKA pics they used in that were from Texas Southern, too.

That's what has been said everywhere else. In fact AKAs at Texas Southern have acknowledged those photos and are doing what is necessary to disban the group. So is this a different group or what? In any case, I think we should let the org in question handle it.

ladygreek · #8 03-03-2007, 12:53 AM

The pics came from the MySpace or Facebook page of one of the group--Joseph. The dressing up as women was separate from the MIAKA photos.

I can't believe it has made TV news. MIAKAs as well as other sorority "male groups", i.e. Delta Beaux/Gents have been around for years. And until now they have been ignored.

I guess Joseph has gotten his 15 minutes of fame and more.

But then how different is it than female members of fraternity aux groups who dress and act like the fraternity members--read: Omega Pearls/Gems? There are a lots of pics on the Net showing that, too. Wolfman why don't you post those?

M0N1CE · #9 03-03-2007, 02:09 AM

I saw this a while back. it's old, but it fits the topic.

http://tsus-miaka.tripod.com/id1.html

jitterbug13 · #10 03-03-2007, 02:37 AM

The pics in the story are from Texas Southern. I wish they would have said that in the story.

And for the website, I think it is VERY IRONIC that the MIAKA chapter started RIGHT AFTER the AKAs at TSU came back.

Those girls (my sister included) were probably so busy trying to get the chapter going again they probably didn't pay attention to the guys who were wishing they were on line with them.

neosoul · #11 03-03-2007, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by M0N1CE

I saw this a while back. it's old, but it fits the topic.

http://tsus-miaka.tripod.com/id1.html

wow...

Akception · #12 03-03-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by M0N1CE

I saw this a while back. it's old, but it fits the topic.

http://tsus-miaka.tripod.com/id1.html

*Akception faints and gently falls on her compact as she leaves the site above...*

DSTRen13 · #13 03-03-2007, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

But then how different is it than female members of fraternity aux groups who dress and act like the fraternity members--read: Omega Pearls/Gems? There are a lots of pics on the Net showing that, too. Wolfman why don't you post those?

I've never seen any female aux members as ... enthusiastic (?) as the male members from all these sites, but then I realized that there are probably calmer male members too, that we don't see all over the Internet. So I looked at a couple of fraternity auxiliary groups' websites. They can get pretty intense too ...

http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/lambdasigmaquepearls/
http://www.freewebs.com/quepearlsisterhoodnetwork/
http://www.jazzynupe.net/Kappa/Sweetheart/

UGAalum94 · #14 03-03-2007, 06:50 PM

It seems like the news story points out that these guys are crossing the line between appreciating and wanting to help the group into wanting to be in and pretending to be in the group.

Auxiliary groups, if your national group allows them, seem fine to me, but it doesn't seem like guys would be dressing up in the colors and doing the signs if they were just supporting the women.

I hope that this weirdness doesn't reflect badly on the auxiliary groups that are really what they are supposed to be.

Wolfman · #15 03-03-2007, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ladygreek

The pics came from the MySpace or Facebook page of one of the group--Joseph. The dressing up as women was separate from the MIAKA photos.

I can't believe it has made TV news. MIAKAs as well as other sorority "male groups", i.e. Delta Beaux/Gents have been around for years. And until now they have been ignored.

I guess Joseph has gotten his 15 minutes of fame and more.

But then how different is it than female members of fraternity aux groups who dress and act like the fraternity members--read: Omega Pearls/Gems? There are a lots of pics on the Net showing that, too. Wolfman why don't you post those?

I posted this because it was a news story.It has, because of the certain actions on that campus, become a story that has merited some media attention. That's what was noteworthy to me.I've seen all kinds of pics from Que Pearls that have crossed the lines and I've seen a lot of heated dialogue by Ques in our circles. To my knowledge, there haven't been attempts of these women to actually try to replicate Omega Psi Phi and claim to be Ques.If there was a news story out there about it, I'd post that too. Why be so defensive? It makes no sense. My interest is sociological just as much as it about Greek life. It definitely has something to do with the construals of gender,gender relations and how it intersects with sexuality in the African American community,which has implications for far more important matters that affect the community, I think.