I believe that is true for all national fraternal organizations. I know, at least, that it is for mine.

I loved when the commercials had #ohjeez in the corner. What an amazing show. I am looking forward to the new season, new cast, but will really miss Allison Tolman!

AAAAAAHHHHH! 2XL! My brother and I got that, and loved it, and I had completely forgotten about it. Thank you, fellow Old, for the happy memory!

I think it's just an awkward reference to his having won the Mark Twain Award for American Comedy in 2009. I hope, at least.

I am so glad you posted this. I thought I was the only one who was having Ferdinand flashbacks!

Thank you for your response. Sorry I was unclear, I was absolutely agreeing with you. It is exhausting to be constantly defined by our marital and parental status. And don't get me started on the number of conversations that stumble quickly to an end with "Oh, you're the STEPmother..."

I was a Theta at Maryland in the mid-to-late 80s and all the sororities there were dry. We had to partner with fraternities to have alcohol at parties. We were also not allowed to have men upstairs.

I generally try not to comment on things so personally painful, But Here We Go. I never wanted kids. Honestly. But after we ended up with custody of my husband's daughters, we often talked about how if we were going to raise children full time, we should have had one of our own. Three years later, I turned out to…

No, he didn't forfeit his right to be King, but he did agree that Camilla would never be Queen. When he becomes King she will be Princess Consort, rather than the customary Queen Consort title.

I am right there with you, and I never regret the loss of my Pittsburgh-born ex who will no longer speak to me because of my pronunciation of their qb's name. Truly, my life is richer, deeper, and so much more rewardingly sarcastic since the forced departure of said ex.

A friend of mine, who had been married before, married a 41 year old who had been saving himself for marriage. In the two years they have been married, they have very rarely had sex— it became such a big deal to him that he is stressed (not to mention not particularly skillful) and she found it too difficult to deal…

Oh, yes. All of the work, none of the credit.

I agree—they do seem like they're trying to hide it under random headlines. I finally clicked on the Filed to: Dirt Bag tag and saved that page as a favorite. Now I can find it twice a day without playing "is it this random article, today?" anymore. Fighting the system, in my own very small way!

I feel the same way. As a pledge at Theta, I was always treated as a valued addition to the chapter. Gifts from my Kite Sister and my Big Sister, involvement in all chapter activities. help with schoolwork, and constant support. As to hazing, we were all sent, as a group (of 36) on a very mild "scavenger hunt"…

My usage of the figure of speech "adult supervision" was intended to reference the large, and in many instances international, organizations that are represented by the 22-year-olds in question. Their purpose is not so much to "monitor" rogue sisters as to foster a consistent set of values. I feel a life long…

I am very sorry this happened to you. It is so far from the warm, supportive environment I experienced when I pledged Theta that I found it hard to believe in your first comment. You're right. You are better off taking no part in that so-called sisterhood.

So Alpha Phi is the only national sorority that doesn't have grade minimums for new members? When I pledged we had to study at the house two evenings a week to make sure my whole pledge class made grades. It is extremely difficult for me to believe you were made to stay up for days on end. Did they come to your…

You reported a story you heard second hand, that a coworker of yours had heard as a rumor. These rumors are always going around. Fraternities are rumored to make their pledges have sex with sheep, sororities are rumored to force all sorts of sexual acts to be performed by pledges. If the sorority in question was…

There is NO WAY that actually happened. There have always been these stories about sorority hazing, even when I was in college in the eighties. None of them ever turn out to be true. No one is sexually assaulting their entire pledge classes. Most national sororities don't even HAVE pledge classes any more. My…