[9602] in APO-L
Re: female Brothers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Amanda Dickerson)
Mon Oct 3 17:10:47 1994
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 16:59:22 -0400
Reply-To: Amanda Dickerson <axd19@po.CWRU.Edu>
From: Amanda Dickerson <axd19@po.CWRU.Edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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>I don't know why we refer to females as "brothers."
>
[....]
>What do the female members prefer? I hate offending people.
>
Being a female member, I prefer to be called a brother.
As for why....
>From Webster....
fraternity - 1: a group of people associated or formally
organized for a common purpose,interest, or pleasure: as
a: a fraternal order {.....} 2: the quality or state of
being brothers : Brotherliness .....
brother - [.....] 4: one related to another by common
ties or interests .....
We are a fraternity, not a sorority, a fraority, a sorternity
or any of the other PC terms people have tried to come up
with in the past, so we are brothers. To me, to say that
I am a sister is to differentiate me from the rest of the
members. We are all the same in this fraternity, all brothers.
amanda
