Sorority Girls

joggerjayne | 17:26 Tue 29th Nov 2011 | Film, Media & TV

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Has anyone been watching the Sorority Girls series on E4?

It's a shame we don't have anything really like sorority houses in our universities.

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sophie_1003

I watched one of them; I thought the American girls were horrible! I think if we had something like that in UK universities it would just encourage the continuation from high schools of the bitchy 'popular' crowd of girls who look down their noses at anyone who dares not to conform to their idea of how girls should be!

joggerjayne

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But aren't they great for bonding?

joggerjayne

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...and parties?

sophie_1003

Only if you want 'friends' who are likely to kick you out of their group for having a few too many to drink and for that matter; only if you want to stay teatotal for the whole of uni! Think just being with a good group of mates negates the need for super-organised bonding times! To be fair; if they existed here I think they'd be much different; fake everything would be acceptable as would drinking but still think it marks out one group as elite and helps them to believe they are better than others.

joggerjayne

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Hmmm ...

I didn't realise they discouraged drinking.

Not such great parties, then.

I might have got the wrong impression of sororities, then. Several of my friends, and a lot of the people I do business with, were in my house at school. They will always introduce me, work wise, to anyone else who has been in the same house, even if it was years apart from me. I sort of assumed that a sorority was just a continuation of that?

They sound a bit dull now.

atrollope

Sorority Houses in our Universities....you are kidding...Right?

joggerjayne

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Well ... I wasn't.

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I mean, universities have lots of clubs and societies, for "like minded" students. So, why not sorority houses?

4getmenot

why not just make friends anyway.

joggerjayne

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Well, yes ... but ...

I'm not sure.

It just seems like a good concept.

dr b

I hope (pray) that any 'reality TV' series that portrays sorority life gets it all wrong by focusing on the stuff that makes 'interesting' TV. In fact one of the main purposes of sororities and fraternities in US schools is to do charitable works; my daughter was in a sorority for 3 of her 4 years in college and did a lot of volunteering in the community with her sorority. Her main reason for joining was calculating (rather ruthlessly, which made me proud) that there were a lot of sorority sister alumni working in her chosen field that would make good job contacts when she graduated.

Many sororities/frats have taken the lead in combating alcohol abuse, etc. on campus. Of course there are bitchy girls and obnoxious guys (and probably bitchy guys) who drink and party too much on any college campus but they are hardly confined to sorority houses.

joggerjayne

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Yes, you see that was my impression,dr b.

Especially the contacts element.

sophie_1003

That sounds like a good side of it; the side they're portraying on TV would make me choose no contacts and working for charity on my own over a sorority!

joggerjayne

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I wonder if the telly is over sensationalising some parts of sororities?

dr b

television - over sensationalizing? (as opposed to sensationalizing just the right amount?). Hard to believe.

joko

only if you're pretty, preppy and popular.

they look like a bunch of stepford wives, and all that nonsense about majic rituals for the sisters and painting paddles etc, along with judgement and conformity, yet claims of individuality... its just garbage, and not what most people go to college for.

there are million hollywood films in which the theme is the sorority girls - horrible bitchy mean etc get their come uppance from the geeky/normal/alternative kids and a lesson is learnt in not judging a book by its cover and beauty is only skin deep...

i for one am eternally grateful britain - and most other countries have avoided all that nonsense.

hopefully the american influences will stop with proms.

atrollope

Agree with jokos post

mickrog

they have them in the states,,,,Ted Bundy loved them

joggerjayne

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joko makes a very good point.

I don't agree with it, but the point is well made.