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Really? Now you can't have company parties with a college party theme? When are we just going to come out and say that all of this moral outrage has jumped th
by redthrowaway 11y ago
Really? Now you can't have company parties with a college party theme?
When are we just going to come out and say that all of this moral outrage has jumped the shark?
- sp332 11y agoFraternities generally don't include women.
- oldmanjay 11y agoFraternity parties sure do.
- shogun21 11y agoI've gone to frat parties where women get in for free. (Whereas men have to pay $5 cover.)
- davidgerard 11y ago... and so the role women play at a frat party is the role the company thinks women should play in the company? You're not making this look any better an idea.
- oldmanjay 11y agoI'm not defending Twitter, just pointing out a basic fact. I have no real horse in this particular dogfight.
- davidgerard 11y agoFair enough!
- hsod 11y agowhat role do you think that is?
- redthrowaway 11y agoThis is not the creation of a Twitter fraternity. It's a frat-themed party. It's about beer pong and drinking games with cards, not exclusionary gender politics. The only people complaining about this are the professionally outraged classes of the twitterati.
- cortesoft 11y agoA Fraternity is all male. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity It would have been different if they called it a college party.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> A Fraternity is all male. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity From the second paragraph of your own link: "In many instances membership in a fraternity is limited to males, but this is not always the case, and there are mixed male and female and even wholly female fraternities" Particularly, in the collegiate context evoked by the phrase used, "fraternities" is generally the term used for all-male or co-ed societies of a particular type, while the corresponding term for all-female societies is "sororities". That being said, "Frat party" certainly has a gendered connotation/implication, its just not a simple definitional thing of the type you present it as.
- bcg1 11y agoAre you really trying to make the argument that a "fraternity" is a gender neutral organization? That's the direction you want to take the discussion?
- err4nt 11y agoA fraternal society refers to the nature of the organization, has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals that make it up. Males/females could operate interchangeably in roles inside a fraternal organization. > It would have been different if they called it a college party. The connotation being that colleges have no history excluding individuals based on their sex? Just as there have been male or female-only frats, haven't there also been male and female-only colleges?