Is This Forum All Females?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by gtdxeric

I've always thought that the female-centric aspect of greekchat was a combination of a few factors:

1. Girls just like to talk more.
I mean, I've heard of sorority exec meetings that last literally all afternoon... on a regular basis, when there's not a "crisis" going on or anything. Girls/women just seem to be more chatty than guys, especially in the greek world. I think this is the biggest factor, honestly.

2. Sororities generally have more in common with one another
At least, the NPC seems to have pretty much standardized a lot of aspects of NPC sorority life on a national basis, so they have a lot of common ground that they can start topics about. Fraternities seem to have a lot more variation in style from place to place.

3. There's more to talk about with a sorority, rather than a fraternity
This is the "recruitment story" syndrome. It seems like many women have a long, drawn-out recruitment experience, with lots of ups and downs, but a lot of IFC "recruitment stories" would go something like this:

Day 1:
Went to a few houses, didn't really like them.
Day 2:
Went to a few more houses, a couple were pretty cool.
Day 3:
Went back to the houses I liked, one of them offered me a bid, I took it. I guess I'm a pledge now.

There's just not the drama there, y'know?

This is somewhat true..........and I think many of us in the South don't really have any recruitment stories because a lot of us knew exactly who we were going to pledge the day we graduated high school.

.....or at least the summer before our freshman year.

[Denise_DPhiE]

Originally Posted by macallan25

This is somewhat true..........and I think many of us in the South don't really have any recruitment stories because a lot of us knew exactly who we were going to pledge the day we graduated high school.

.....or at least the summer before our freshman year.

How does that work exactly? Or, for you exactly? Please tell!

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Denise_DPhiE

How does that work exactly? Or, for you exactly? Please tell!

First off, I think for a lot of us, friends and the legacy factor has a lot to do with it. Many, many of us grew up around fraternity functions, tailgates with our dads and their pledge brothers, etc. So we already had a head start early on. The schools that most of us in the South typically go to also have a lot to do with it I think. There is quite a bit of commonality between where we chose to go, and where many of the older guys from our hometowns chose to go as well. Between, Texas, and SMU, TCU, Ole Miss, Alabama, Georgia, Texas Tech, W&L, Arkansas, LSU, Vanderbilt, etc. .......I could probably name 20 or 30 people easily at each place that I have known my whole life.

Having known all of these older guys that were all in solid fraternities made it great during high school because they would always invite us down to summer rush parties, rush trips, etc. Recruitment starts early down here.

With that said......when you take all of that and then add in the legacy factor, most of us knew exactly who we were going to pledge before we even got to college.


Now me personally? My dad was/is an SAE down here at Texas....I grew up around the fraternity and around his pledge brothers. Many of his friends have sons who were older than me that I grew up around and that all went SAE down here, so it made the decision pretty easy for me early on.

[Tom Earp]

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