A UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA STUDENT WAS KICKED OUT OF HER
SORORITY FOR A PROVOCATIVE TINDER PROFILE PICTURE.
SHANNON WORKMAN POSTED THIS TO HER TINDER.
OH PROVOCATIVE!
WHAT IS GOING ON HERE, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A
FAMILY SHOW!
APPARENTLY THE SORORITY HAS A HUMAN DIGNITY RULE, WHERE THE
SISTERS CANNOT POST PHOTOS WEARING THE LETTERS ON ANY
PLATFORM THAT WOULD BE DISRESPECTFUL TO THE CHAPTER.
SO SHE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE ORGANIZATION, AND AFTER SHE WAS
KICKED OUT SHE TOOK TO FACEBOOK TO EXPLAIN THE SITUATION, SOME
OF THE AFTERMATH.
THE DECISION CAME AFTER SOME MANAGEMENT SHIFTS IN THE
SORORITY.
SHE WROTE THIS.
BEFORE WE GET INTO WHETHER OR NOT THIS PHOTO SHOULD HAVE
RESULTED IN HER GETTING KICKED OUT OF THE SORORITY, WHICH
I THINK WE ARE ALL GOING TO AGREE ON, I WANT TO TALK
ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING WITH THE ADVISORS.
I WAS IN A SORORITY AND WE HAD THESE ADVISERS, WHICH IS
BASICALLY A NICE TERM FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN WHO USED TO BE
IN THE SORORITY WHO NOW WANT TO EXERT SOME SORT OF POWER
AND RELIVE THEIR COLLEGE DAYS.
SO THEY WOULD COME IN, THEY WOULD COME TO EVERY
MEETING, AND THEY WOULD HAVE SUPER STRICT RULES ABOUT
WHAT YOU COULD WEAR OUR MEETINGS.
I CAME IN SWEATPANTS AND UGGS, BECAUSE IT WAS A SUNDAY NIGHT I
HAD DONE HOMEWORK ALL DAY, AND THEY WOULD GET ON MY CASE
FOR NOT WEARING WHAT I WOULD WEAR TO SUNDAY CHURCH.
THEY WOULD GO AFTER WHAT YOU WORE FORMALS AND PARTIES
AND WHATEVER, AND THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO ASSERT SOME WEIRD
POWER OVER COLLEGE KIDS.
IT IS BIZARRE, AND THIS CLEARLY PLAYED OUT IN THE CASE OF
SHANNON'S SITUATION.
IT NEEDS TO GO AWAY.
SORORITIES FORBES SHOULD ñ
SORORITIES SHOULD BE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS, AND ONCE YOU ARE
GRADUATED YOU ARE NOT IN A SORORITY ANYMORE, CALM DOWN.
THEY SAID THIS SORT ñ THEY SAID THIS PICTURE WAS
RISQU…?
THEY GAVE HER THAT SHIRT.
FOR ONE THING, THE PICTURE IS NOT RISKY AT ALL.
WE'RE GOING TO SHOW THE SMUT AGAIN?!
UNBELIEVABLE.
THE SECOND THING WAS THEIR QUOTE, THAT THEY GAVE IN
TERMS OF THEIR REASONING.
IT'S EXACTLY THE TYPE OF QUOTE YOU WOULD EXPECT SOMEONE
FROM AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB TO SAY.
FUCK OFF.
LIKE, FUCK OFF.
IT IS RIDICULOUS.
I HAVE MY OWN THEORY, I WASN'T IN A FRATERNITY.
WE HAD ORGANIZATIONS, I WAS ON THE SOCCER TEAM, WE WERE
VIEWED AS OUR OWN EXCLUSIVE CLUB.
EITHER WAY, I NEVER UNDERSTOOD IT.
WE DON'T HAVE IT IN THE UK, WE DON'T HAVE GREEK LIFE OR
ANY OF THAT STUFF.
WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT INCLUDING EVERYONE.
I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE SOME BENEFITS INVOLVED IN BEING IN A
FRATERNITY.
THERE ARE A BUNCH OF FRAT BROTHERS IN OUR OFFICE, AND
THERE ARE BENEFITS, CONNECTIONS AND THE LIKE.
BUT I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK AND POSE THE QUESTION, DOES THE
NEGATIVES OF A FRATERNITY OR A SORORITY OVERTHROW THOSE?
A LOT OF TIMES WE WILL SEE THE BEHAVIOR AND THE KIND OF
INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT.
WHAT I'VE EXPERIENCED IS, IT'S BASED ON AESTHETICS.
ARE YOU FITTING FOR THIS SORORITY?
HAVE YOU
GOT THE APPEARANCE THAT IS RIGHT FOR THIS?
AND THEN THE
NEXT QUESTION AS TO, DO YOU FIT IN WITH OUR REGULATIONS?
I AGREE WITH YOU THAT SORORITIES HAD THAT VIBE.
I WENT TO AN ALL GIRLS SCHOOL FOR HIGH SCHOOL SO I JOINED
A SORORITY, I WAS LIKE I WILL HAVE THAT SISTERHOOD AGAIN
BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT SORORITIES ARE ALL ABOUT.
NO.
THEY ARE BULLSHITTING HERE, BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT GOING TO
PARTIES AND HOOKING UP, AND THAT WAS SOMETHING I WAS OUT INTO.
I LOVE MY LITTLE AND I LOVE MY BIG, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE, MEH.
BUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT WITH THE LETTERS,
THERE ARE RULES, AND THOSE AREN'T NECESSARILY PUT ON
BY THE SORORITIES THEMSELVES, THEY ARE PUT ON BY THE
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.
THERE ARE RULES ABOUT DRINKING IN YOUR LETTERS AND DOING
THINGS THAT ARE PROVOCATIVE IN YOUR LETTERS, AND DOING
THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT THAT'S WHY THESE RULES ARE IN PLACE, BUT THIS PICTURE
I DON'T THINK IS SUBJECTED TO THAT.
HERE'S MY RULING ON ALL OF THIS.
I'M NOT A FRAT GUY.
I REMEMBER A COUPLE OF MY FRIENDS WERE PLEDGING, AND
ONE OF THEM HAD THEIR GUY THAT WAS HAZING THEM SAY, GET
DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND TIE MY SHOELACES, I WAS LIKE I'M OUT.
GLAD I DIDN'T PLEDGE, AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER.
BUT TO BE FAIR TO THEM THEY HAD A GREAT TIME, THEY ENJOYED
IT, THEY HAD GREAT PARTIES AND GREAT COME LOTTERY.
THERE'S SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT THAT.
SOMETIMES IT GETS A LITTLE CULTISH.
THEN THERE ARE GUYS WHO COME AND RELIVE THEIR FRAT OR
SORORITY DAYS, THE WOMEN YOU ALLUDED TO, AND IN SOME
WAYS, A GOD BLESS YOU.
I KNOW THOSE WERE THE GLORY DAYS, AND SOMETIMES THEY
WANT TO HELP KIDS.
BUT THE GUYS WHO KEEP COMING BACK WHEN THEY ARE LIKE 48
AND THEY'RE HANGING OUT WITH 19-YEAR-OLD
BOYS, YOU KNOW, IT'S NATURAL TO ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
BUT MOST OF THEM MEAN REALLY WELL I THINK, SO I FEEL BAD
JUDGING THEM, BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WHAT IT IS
IS THAT THEY ARE IMPOSING OLD RULES ON A COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT GENERATION.
THE REASON THEY ARE REALLY PISSED OFF IS NOT BECAUSE OF HOW
SHE LOOKED, BUT BECAUSE SHE PUT IT ON TINDER.
THEY DID NOT HAVE TINDER BACK IN THE DAY, THOSE CRAMPS ARE LIKE,
WE DIDN'T HAVE TINDER, IT IS JUST FOR LOOKING UP.
IN THE OLD DAYS WE WOULD HOOK UP THE OLD FASHION WAY, GET
DRUNK AND GO TO A FRAT HOUSE.
AND SO, HEY, GRANDMA I LOVE YOU AND I KNOW YOU MEAN WELL,
BUT LET'S MOVE ON WITH OUR LIVES.
AND THE LITTLE IDEA OF DOING SOME DISREPUTABLE IN YOUR FRAT
LETTERS, OR YOUR SORORITY LETTERS, HAHAHA, WHO ARE WE
KIDDING TAX 98 PERCENT OF THE POINT OF BEING IN A
FRATERNITY OR A SORORITY IS TO DO SOMETHING DISREPUTABLE.