Sororities

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.3 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In our last episode of back to school month, Tess takes us through the origins of Greek life and how sororities came to be. We go all the way back to the 1800s and discuss where women fit into higher education and the fear that egnitted in our country. Then, we go through the turn of the century, honoring Black women in higher education, and finally into the 60s/70s to modern day Greek life and dissect and critique the system, going over the many problematic traditions such as hazing and the double standard of fraternity brothers vs sorority sisters. Of many stories along the way of Tess's own experience as a Delta Zeta over ten years ago. Spoiler: she got in trouble for talking a lot. Enjoy this episode and let's pretend we are doing a secret hand shake right now. TW, SA: We cannot dive into the history of Greek life without talking about sexual assault on campus. National Sexual Assault Hotline Hours: Available 24 hours 1-800-656-4673 Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@Rightanswersmostly⁠⁠⁠ and TikTok at ⁠⁠⁠@Rightanswersmostly⁠⁠⁠ Join Premium at https://rightanswersmostly.supportingcast.fm/ for $7.99/month for two bonus episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ramies, are you feeling nostalgic for those frat parties from your bright college years?
0:05.7	We'll jump back into college with Power 10, a new audio drama from the makers of Meet Cute
0:11.2	rom-coms, where a rebellious young athlete must learn to keep his demons in check to qualify
0:16.5	for an elite rowing team. Sounds so chic mysterious so fun search power 10 on apple spotify or
0:24.4	wherever you get your podcast you will not regret listening to this claire and i are obsessed
0:28.7	i hope that it's not like a very scholastic journey for them and it's more like a social you know
0:34.1	what they call that getting Getting your MRS degree.
0:37.8	Right.
0:38.5	Oh, yeah.
0:39.1	Right.
0:40.1	I mean, that is kind of clever.
0:41.3	Yeah, it really is. Hello, Rammies.
0:56.5	Hi, guys.
0:57.3	I miss you so much.
0:59.0	It is like, it's, what analogy can we use?
1:02.5	Like, when, oh, it's like summer school is over.
1:05.4	Yep.
1:05.8	And then you see, I mean, it's back to school.
1:08.6	It's back to school.
1:09.5	Like, go with me here.
1:10.4	Yeah, this, what's what this whole month has been, and now we're finally seeing our friends again.
1:15.9	We're getting back to it.
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