Texas A&M Rush as a Sophomore

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

As they have said, no one at all said he was off base in his assessment of the Corps vs. fraternities at A&M. He said:It's a figurative form of comparison called a simile. The comparison made is that fraternities at A&M suck in the same way that a podunk state college sucks.

Then it is left up to the reader as to what they consider to be a podunk state college. I'm sure some who attended the Ivies,like one of my ex-boyfriends, he went to Harvard, considered all of his state schools in CA as podunk.

So, it is relative as to what one considers podunk. What may be a 'podunk' state college for one, may be the best school ever for another.

What 33girl and then DF objected to is the use of "podunk state colleges" as the target of the simile, as it implies that podunk state colleges are an appropriate and perhaps even obvious yardstick of suckage. People who went to podunk state colleges might disagree with the use of that particular yardstick.

Then they they do suck to that individual person. There are universities in Texas that I absolutely did not consider attending because I thought they were just that - podunk! They sucked to me, but to those that attended, I'm sure that university was the best thing going.

If instead he had said "so fraternities suck like Justin Bieber," then all would have been well. That is, unless some Beliebers found this site and highjacked it.

Maybe the simile was offensive to some, but the intent is still the same. As you said, some may have gotten offended at the Justin Bieber comparison, but not me. .