[15365] in APO-L
Sexism in APO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oz, the Great and Terrible,)
Fri Nov 8 10:45:46 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 23:43:22 -0500
Reply-To: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
From: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Bravely and without thought to personal injury, Michele Costabile Doney said:
>
> I'm not going to touch the subject of all-male chapters because I've never
been
> to a campus that had one so I don't know firsthand how they differ, if at all,
> from coed chapters (other than the one obvious way). However, something I do
> know a lot about is sexism in coed chapters. While I was active (I graduated
> in 1993), not only was blatant sexism common in my chapter, but horribly
> sexist people were routinely elected as officers.
>
> Is this common in other chapters? What experiences have others had with this
> in their chapters? Might this be residual to the all-male beginnings of the
> organization?
As I said in a previous post, Gamma Zeta pretty much has the same M/F
ratio as Georgia Tech, 70/30 (not that that necessarily means anything).
In the year that I've been a part of our chapter, I haven't seen or heard
of anything that could be described as sexist. There is, of course,
playing around on occasion, but that's between friends and works both
ways.
Half of our elected officers are women, and I don't think that anyone who
was openly sexist could _ever_ get elected in our chapter.
YiLFS,
Charlie Smith
Pledge Trainer and Parlimentarian
Gamma Zeta
Georgia Institute of Technology
--
"[The] whole struggle in this country to give equal rights and equal
privileges to all citizens of the United States has been an unpopular one;
that we have been forced to struggle against passions and prejudices
engendered by generations of wrong and oppression."
Sen. Henry Wilson (R) c.1868
