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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 30, 2024

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This is literally toxic femininity at its peak. The article was fascinating, but I was strongly repulsed by the description of this grueling application process. It sounds worse than a Korean prep school.

How hard is it to set up another sorority for those that don't fit into the procrustean requirements of the old ones? Why isn't there one for girl nerds? For scene girls (what does Gen Z call them?)? For purple-hairs? For radfems? For Blacks? For academically obsessed Asians?

It's hard to set up a sorority for those groups (excluding blacks) because they don't exist except as a rounding error at this university.

I checked and the UA has Theta Tau and Phi Sigma Pi, two co-ed chapters for nerds, at least. And Alpha Omega Epsilon, but their chapter's twitter has been dead since 2021.

For scene girls (what does Gen Z call them?)

Alt girls is the term for goth-lite girls these days, scene is basically never used by gen-z

Why isn't there one for girl nerds? For scene girls (what does Gen Z call them?)? For purple-hairs? For radfems? For Blacks? For academically obsessed Asians?

I think part of the reason why those fail is that the cool kids are cool for a reason. Many of the people in all of those sub-cultures really would have more fun being in a traditional sorority with all the really charismatic and hot people than being around their own kind.

Many of the people in all of those sub-cultures really would have more fun being in a traditional sorority with all the really charismatic and hot people than being around their own kind.

In many ways, "cool" is just another sub-culture, just like any other. It appeals to some people and not to others. I found clubs and frat parties to be painfully boring when I was in college.

Let's not confuse "cool" and "popular." Cool can suggest mystery, but transparently popular in a very conformist way is what these sorority girls are.

For Blacks?

Wait for tomorrows post.

But the difficulty is in acquiring a house, getting recognition from the social circle, and maintaining it over time. Lots of times you get half-greek orgs along those lines, but they're often short-lived and not lindy. They're cool for a season on the power of a particularly charismatic couple of kids, but they fall apart or become lame later.

What the old line greek letter orgs deliver is consistent credibility for every class for decades. Not just for a bit, but forever. They have the house, permanently, to live in. Everyone knows they throw the best parties, permanently. It would take a long time for any other group to build that out.

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