Sinister: the greeks are coming

[Fergal Denn]

Nick wrote:

>Did anyone else see that documentary about the University of Iowa's 'Greek
>system' of sonority and fraternity houses.  It was quite the weirdest thing 
>I
>have ever seen.


yep I saw that documentary too, and yep it was scary. The idea that this set 
of strange individuals are due to be the future ‘leaders’ of the most 
powerful country in the world is a tad worrisome. Having said that,  I was 
also struck by how vastly different the world of the girls in the sorority 
was from the guys’ world in the frats. Yes, I realise that boys and girls 
are fundamentally different but these people were like different species. Is 
this the status quo of an unchecked single sex environment? Perhaps the 
insular societal microcosms of the greek system represent what a single sex 
world would be like? If so, in a world populated by just girls everybody 
would be well dressed, conformist, prissy, teetotal, walk around with their 
hands behind their back and sing pseudo religious songs. The alternative 
being a boy world where guys spend their time getting boozed up, talking 
like morons and  in the absence of some puss to pull I suppose they'd pull 
each other.........

Both worlds have there attractions but on balance I think I’d rather hang 
out with the stepford wives in girl world....any thoughts?

Fergal


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