{"id":3998,"date":"2018-10-26T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:00:14","slug":"are-you-your-brothers-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"Are YOU Your Brothers\u2019 Keeper?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n

Picture this; a group of college girls are out for the night, and they\u2019re dressed to the nines, and even the tens. They\u2019re drinking and having the times of their life but Becky (or whichever friend you have that fit this M.O.) had a little too much to drink, and now she\u2019s falling all over herself. She\u2019s up in people\u2019s faces and making everyone uncomfortable. Naturally, people are now telling her friends that they need to get her back home while simultaneously making it seem like the friends\u2019 fault. Now, ask yourself a question, do guys do the same thing? <\/span><\/p>\n

There is a stigma around the college partying scene especially when it comes to how girls hold each other accountable for their drunken actions versus the way guys do. Unfortunately, we still live in a time where \u201cboys will be boys\u201d and \u201che\u2019s just that way\u201d are still phrases that condone the thoughtless and stupid actions of men while women are often looked down on and talked about long after with less than kind words for doing the exact thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

We see it more often than we think, and even more than we\u2019d like to admit, but it does happen, and it needs to stop. That doesn\u2019t mean you cut off your friends after you see them maybe getting a little loud or when people have out their phones and are recording your friend because they\u2019re tearing it up on the dance floor, but you do it because they are making an absolute fool of themselves and you need to interject.<\/span><\/p>\n

This gets into the Greek Life world across the nation, where it\u2019s more apparent of the loose definition of what being a \u201cbrother\u201d is. Of course, every organization has different core values, but ALL organizations seems to pride themselves on the idea that they are a family and they care about one another. <\/span><\/p>\n

So act like it. It seems that they have no problem kicking out non-brothers when they act out-of-pocket, but when it comes to their own, there always seems to be an excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the official plea to all Greek Life, especially men, this weekend and every weekend: you don\u2019t have to be everyone\u2019s parent, but just actually do what you signed up to do: be an actual brother.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James Picture this; a group of college girls are out for the night, and they\u2019re dressed to the nines, and even the tens. They\u2019re drinking and having the times of their life but Becky (or whichever friend you have that fit this M.O.) had a little too much to drink, and now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}