Simple questions about Greek Life that annoy you?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG

this guy i used to date calls every sorority "Delta."

example: Oh, you IN one of those "Deltas" (i assume as opposed to you in one of those sororities)

or

what kinda "Delta" are you?

dammit he was cute, but dumb as a brick.

It's like calling all forms of soda "Coke!"

[AOII_LB93]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Amazingly enough, I've never heard A-E-A OR the paying for your friends bit. (Aside from GC)

I did have someone once ask me if I was an Alpha Kappa Alpha. Because Sigma and Kappa are so similar, right?

"Are you an A-Chi-O?" Yeah, because omicron and chi look so similar...as do omega and pi right? IDIOTS!

"Did you get hazed?" My usual response, "Yes daily, hovever we only did pillow fights only on fridays that were even numbered dates though."

[OOhsoflyDELTA#9]

this reminds me of my grandma saying that my AKA cousins are "Deltas like OOhSoFly but they wears different colors..." then she'll tell people how much I love my fraternity like my uncle Jerry (who is a Kappa)......its really sweet in a senile kinda way....

Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG

this guy i used to date calls every sorority "Delta."

example: Oh, you IN one of those "Deltas" (i assume as opposed to you in one of those sororities)

or

what kinda "Delta" are you?

dammit he was cute, but dumb as a brick.

[icicle22]

Originally Posted by DSTRen13

This wasn't annoying so much as bizarre ... I'd been working with this man (an African American man who aside from this incident was very intelligent) for weeks and one day he noticed my Delta keychain. He looks at me and asks me, in all seriousness: "Hey, you're black?"

The most annoying question I get asked a LOT is "Why didn't you join a white sorority?" I don't mind if Sorors ask me those sorts of questions; I expect that. But when someone (especially a member of an NPC group) asks me a question phrased like that, it really irks me - I wouldn't go up to them and ask them why they didn't choose my Sorority; it's rude. I also hate the insinuation that my decision must have somehow been a race thing. Like I joined Delta to insult white people everywhere or something.

Actually, that's pretty cool...I didn't know that white people (no offense) were allowed to join historically black GLOs.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by DSTRen13

This wasn't annoying so much as bizarre ... I'd been working with this man (an African American man who aside from this incident was very intelligent) for weeks and one day he noticed my Delta keychain. He looks at me and asks me, in all seriousness: "Hey, you're black?"

The most annoying question I get asked a LOT is "Why didn't you join a white sorority?" I don't mind if Sorors ask me those sorts of questions; I expect that. But when someone (especially a member of an NPC group) asks me a question phrased like that, it really irks me - I wouldn't go up to them and ask them why they didn't choose my Sorority; it's rude. I also hate the insinuation that my decision must have somehow been a race thing. Like I joined Delta to insult white people everywhere or something.

I understand why you get both questions. We like to categorize and presume things by race and adding "predominantly (insert race)" organizations helps us to do that. It is annoying that people can be judged as "self-hating" if they join a predominently (insert racial category) group.

This is a general comment and not in response to your post:
One thing that annoys me is when nonblacks join a historically black org and say that race wasn't a factor. They often say that to be safe, which I understand because words and intentions get misconstrued. Race may not have been a factor in an insulting or stereotypical manner. But it should've been a factor given our rich histories and the communities that our philanthropy targets more often than not.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by OOhsoflyDELTA#9

this reminds me of my grandma saying that my AKA cousins are "Deltas like OOhSoFly but they wears different colors..." then she'll tell people how much I love my fraternity like my uncle Jerry (who is a Kappa)......its really sweet in a senile kinda way....

That is adorable.

When I crossed I had an annoying sticker on the back of my car and people would say "you're a Krappa" or "you're a Que?" As a neo I was militantly correcting people. As the years went on, I saved my corrections for people who may give a darn. We aren't hardly as important to EVERYONE (in terms of recognition) as we like to think that we are. And that's fine.

At the collegiate level, there are more opportunities to know the different groups but at the alumnae level we're dealing with people in the community--some who know us, some who don't and don't care, and some who don't but want to be around us anyway. They should all come and support, maybe those who don't know will learn about the different groups. If they don't learn, they can still reap the benefits of our services and say "one of those red and white fraternities had a fundraiser."

[Phrozen1ne]

Originally Posted by PhrozenGod01

While I don't really hate too many questions asked (most of them at least), it always annoys me when people pronounce Alpha Phi Alpha, "Alpha 'Phee' Alpha". I could see if some reclusive Alpha Phi said it once or something, but when a professional announcer butchers it, after they've been told the correct pronunciation, just makes me shake my head. It happened during a homecoming parade a couple years back.

Actually there is more than one way to pronounce a couple of letters in the Greek Alphabet, Phi being one of them, Xi another. Still if he was already informed how we pronounce it and still butchered it than

[Phrozen1ne]

I've had people ask me why I joined a fraternity period. They compared joining fraternities and sororities to cult groups where people just want to belong.........!!!

[Tom Earp]

Won't it really give us Greeks a chance to explain to them what it is all about?

[Ilaria Ame]

it's already been said, but definitely "why did you join THAT?" and sometimes the version "why didn't you just join a WHITE sorority?" OR (my personal favorite) "what, they wouldn't take you in a REAL sorority, so you made one up?" i'm sure my founders would be very surprised to know that i started lambda psi delta!!

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Why did you join a sorority?

And

How do you get hazed?

Because I like to drink and slut around...after they beat me senseless.

[MzJ25]

I'm a neo but I had the most annoying conversation in the library yesterday:

Intrested girl: I didn't know you was in them Zeta's
Me: Yes I am a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
IG: Ohh okay, are you all having any events soon?
Me: well, we aren't having any right now( she interupts before I can finish)
IG: Ohh, can you call me when you have something.

At this point, she proceeds to write her number down for me. I later put it in the trash.

[tinydancer16]

Oh my, Zeta13Girl that article is horrific...honestly I'm surprised they printed it at all. It makes me so sad that people think that way about the greek community

[Animate]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

Why did you join a sorority?

And

How do you get hazed?

Because I like to drink and slut around...after they beat me senseless.

LMAO!

Originally Posted by MzJ25

I'm a neo but I had the most annoying conversation in the library yesterday:

Intrested girl: I didn't know you was in them Zeta's
Me: Yes I am a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
IG: Ohh okay, are you all having any events soon?
Me: well, we aren't having any right now( she interupts before I can finish)
IG: Ohh, can you call me when you have something.

At this point, she proceeds to write her number down for me. I later put it in the trash.

Double LMAO!

[KSUViolet06]

Random girl in Shakespeare class my junior year: "OMG, you always have the cutest sorority shirts! Where do they sell those? I want one!"

Random girl in Bio who had dropped out of recruitment a week before: "Why do your little clubs cost so much? All you get are a bunch of shirts!"