A link to share

As I was bored in class this morning, I decided to go on my phone and check twitter to see if anything caught my eye. While perusing through the tweets, I saw one that said "A must read for all Greeks" so obviously I read it (thanks to Kristen Rupert for the find!). It was a link to a blog called "Fraternal Thoughts" which I am sure some of have heard of. I loved this post and I definitely think it is something everyone should read and I encourage all of you to also read it.

http://fraternalthoughts.blogspot.com/2010/10/knock-on-fraternity-house-door.html

I found this post to be very inspirational and I think that it is something through the midst of recruitment could help bring people down from pedestals they may have built for themselves. It is a good way to help people stay open minded and focus on the person and their values, rather than their appearance, culture, socioeconomic status, etc..

HOWEVER, something that really disturbed me was an anonymous post from a self-proclaimed "strong" woman. She commented on this blog saying,

"I think something that should be added to this is "I'm a woman." I am a current member of a CO-ED Fraternity. I am not in a Sorority, I am not in a Frasorority. I am in a FRATERNITY, and I am PROUD OF IT. Because only strong women pledge Frats.

Other than that, I love this article :)"

Now, I really don't like to rag on people. I don't want to throw more hate and bickering into this world. But, this woman is severely ignorant with her argument. This blog post mentioned the speaker being neither a man or a woman. She is incorrectly assuming that Fraternity automatically means man. I don't think that she is aware that most sororities use the term fraternity in the name of their organizations. So, if she wants to add "I'm a woman," it would only be fair to also add that phrase subbing in man, transgender, neither, and all of the above. I think that she is as degrading to women as chauvinistic males are, if not more degrading. She blatantly undermined the value of ALL sorority women because they are in sororities. I guess she is a stronger, more valuable asset to society because she is mighty enough to have pledged her co-ed "frat." I am more than happy for her to be proud of her fraternity, I just think that she could use a little less ignorance in her thought process. I'm sure that somewhere beneath the degrading and name-calling, there was once a good thought, but it definitely didn't show.