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Old 10-08-2007, 01:16 AM
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I've never heard "frat" used as a bad thing to call a fraternity. Can someone PM me the reason it would be considered bad?
http://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=84070

There's an educated, well-thought out response somewhere in the middle.

By the way, there are tons of threads about the use of the word "frat". This thread's just one POV of many.
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Old 10-08-2007, 01:36 AM
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There's an educated, well-thought out response somewhere in the middle.

By the way, there are tons of threads about the use of the word "frat". This thread's just one POV of many.
lmao @ that "frat" thread...yeah son was an idiot with him analogy, and the other dude elephant walk too...
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Old 10-08-2007, 10:32 AM
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The explanation I received in college was: you wouldn't call your country a c**t so you shouldn't call your fraternity a frat.
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Old 10-08-2007, 10:36 AM
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I'm not going to deny fraternity members who wish others to not use "frat," but I have always thought that analogy to be ridiculous. The c-word is a dirty word in common vernacular, whereas frat does not carry the same connotation.

Regardless, I will never refer to a fraternity as a frat, but it is out of respect to those men who have expressed such. Other fraternity men don't care and call it a frat, frat brothers, etc. I think it depends on where you are from.
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Old 10-08-2007, 10:37 AM
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Didn't we just have this same discussion last week?
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Old 10-08-2007, 12:38 PM
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Didn't we just have this same discussion last week?
And last year and several times before.

I don't use the word "frat." Nor do I use "frat brother."

Some do, and that's OK, but personally I think it sounds demeaning.

As for the "c" word analogy -- it's silly.
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Old 10-08-2007, 01:29 PM
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That topic again? Really?
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Old 10-08-2007, 01:36 PM
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Didn't we just have this same discussion last week?
Yes, we did, starting here.

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That topic again? Really?
Really.

And the "would you call your country . . . " comparison is still just as lame as it was last week, and last month, and last year, and the year before that . . . .
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