"I think Gawker and its sister sites do the problem a disservice by painting with broad strokes though and lumping frats into one generic group"....ah, irony...kind of like you have been doing to The South in most of your posts on this subject? Horrible racists in The South, poor misunderstood Greeks. Have you ever…

Using your logic, respectfully, you say "you can't approach it with the assumption that everyone in Greek life on every campus across the nation believes in and supports those principles. If you do, you risk alienating the one's (like myself) who ARE NOT okay with this shit and wish it would stop or go away" and I…

Friend, have you read the news. At all? Even recently? For other states? Or other countries? This is a pervasive problem and attempting to isolate it to one region doesn't begin to acknowledge it or alleviate it. Yes, The South is "known" to have this problem but that does not mean the problem is higher here than…

The Bay Area in CA has a surprising amount of hate groups. Loud and proud of being that stupid.

Oh good, an adage.

If I may offer my view, I LIKE it when people show their colors. There is a house flying the rebel flag? GREAT! Now you know where they live. See it on their truck? GREAT, now you know what they drive. Is someone putting stickers on the window of their small business illustrating what and how they believe? GREAT, now…

I ran into that with a well traveled co-worker who was of color. I asked him why he would want to come back to the South where people are so racist. He told me that people up north had been just as racist but covert and that it was easier to be around people if they showed their true faces. There is my point but for…

That's it exactly. OUR chew toy, we can mangle it with the teeth of truth but heaven forbid those outsiders take a bite! But we see the good parts and recognize (and sometimes disapprove) the bad parts. We aren't just insulting it to make ourselves look better, like the other states that have an equal part of…

LOL, you could be right!

Yeah, I can see that and I concur, that it is alive and well here, as well as other places. However, I have found that among the general populace—not within the church walls, in other words—if you question them below the auto-answer, you find that they are much like the rest of the US, they really don't care much…

Yes, I was the other one who voted for Obama in SC. I can only imagine what you are hearing and reading. :-/

Oh, a fellow Southerner. Sorry bout that. Carry on bashing these morons around here then, they drive me nuts too! :-) The South may be the South and is but we can't have those Others slamming on it. Bless its heart!

Without knowing the man I will guess it could have meant that he had a serious crush and was grateful you were going to go out with him. It is used that way. As in "I see your car is in the shop and I am headed to the store. Need a lift?" "Yes I do! Bless your heart!". Or maybe he was just creepy. Men can be that…

AND it is very handy to piss off racists Northerners. Or anyone that is racist. In case you haven't checked the news in the last, oh, I don't know, 20 years or so, racism, the kind that leads to shooting and dying, that kind, is all over the US. And the world. But perhaps your reading is only on forums and only about S…

I love this woman.

This is me, paying you homage. ~~~CLAPS~~~ :-D

That is so cool. I now not only want bagged milk but a bagged milk holder. My Christmas list just got its first items!

Ever get mad at people with broken legs for having the sheer nerve and audacity to try to get sympathy with that crutch and just want to sweep it out from under their arm as well? I HAVE to wear sunglasses to protect my eyes from light—so much that I have pairs all over, expensive prescription sunglasses that I wear…

Yep, Disney pimps out the princesses now. You've seen how much money she has made them, right? :-)

I KNOW, right??? I loved her transformation from husband pleaser to wanting equality. It was major good stuff!