When the Sisterhood Goes Woke
College is such an odd time in your life. With graduating from high school, you leave your childhood behind, and it seems as if, suddenly, you are now forced to make what seems like really adult decisions on a daily basis. Wait a minute! I didn’t sign up for this! Sure, I knew that I was going to have to study and actually go to class, but I also didn’t think it would be all work and no play. I figured I would run into a party or two along the way. This is especially true if you don’t go away to school but attend school where you live. For many who attend what is sometimes called a “commuter campus,” the problem of a social life in college is solved by joining the Greek system.
Fraternities and sororities, looking back on it now, is kind of an oddity within the oddity of college life. Pledging a fraternity or sorority is kind of like a job interview. You look your best and go to rush parties, usually cake, and punch affairs for girls, to see if you will be acceptable to a bunch of strangers. If I had been the person I am now, I wouldn’t have given two flips what people thought of me. Probably why you don’t join sororities after 40. But in all fairness, if all goes well, you are immediately granted a circle of friends that in some way, you will know for the rest of your life. And those one or two parties I was looking for, let’s just say that yes, I found them, yes, they provided me with stories I still tell, and yes, I am forever grateful there was no internet to document all those sordid but fun as hell escapades.
But as with anything, times change, and sorority life is apparently not immune. The sisterhood that so many young women seek out when pledging a sorority, is now falling victim to the woke mob, and it will truly forever change something that really is an amazing time in your life. In September, members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming Laramie were told that they would be voting on two prospective pledges. One of those pledges, was a transgender woman, someone calling themself Artemis Langford. Several members said they felt like they were being pressured by the President and Membership Chair to accept a transgender woman into the chapter. Members also said that they felt that not only was the higher echelon of the chapter basically telling them if they didn’t like it to get out or keep their feelings about it to themselves. Bylaws were changed to accept Langford, and the KKG headquarters put out a publication entitled, “Guide for Supporting Our LGBTQIA+ Members.” The new member selection section of the bylaws stated, “Women and individuals who identify as women whose governing documents do not discriminate in membership selection, except by requiring good scholarship and ethical character.”
To add insult to injury, KKG’s newest pledge was allowed to give a statement to the school newspaper while other members were not. If you are a KKG sister, this was a statement for the ages. Langford said, “I feel so glad to be in a place that I think not only shares my values, but to be in a sisterhood of awesome women that want to make history. They want to break the glass ceiling, trailblazing you know, and I certainly feel that as their first trans member, at least in the chapter in Wyoming history.”
But wait, it gets even better. As if these women were not insulted enough, in large part by the higher ups of their own sorority chapter, now they had to listen to someone who is a biological man, extoll the virtues of sisterhood to them. The KKG member who was the source for this story also stated that many members felt like if they spoke out about their true feelings on the matter, that there would be some sort of retribution. They said they felt as if Langford was a kind of protected class all unto him/herself, and that Langford’s membership was more important than other members of the chapter. The source stated, “The rules don’t apply to him.”
It is appropriate that the source used the word “him” when talking about Artemis Lanford. She was asked if she thought that Langford had gone through the entire transitioning process. The answer, “absolutely not.” She described A tall heavier man with facial hair and said that Langford was “a big guy.” While the source obviously had no knowledge of whether Langford had undergone any hormone or any other transitional procedures, she stated that, “He has made no physical efforts to look like a girl.” The source said that the “new and improved” bylaws now state that, “He’s just calling himself a girl. All you have to do is identify as a she/her.”
Is it safe to say that women’s sports were a trial run for this? If the left, those champions of women, can successfully erase women’s sports by inserting biological men into them, it can certainly be done with things like sororities. Sororities, and fraternities for that matter are places where someone can be themselves with members of their own sex. Those people are feeling and experiencing the same things you are or did and can guide you through it. Personally, for someone who had no sisters, what a feeling, when I suddenly realized I had 50 of them. For Kappa Kappa Gamma to demean the sisterhood experience for these young women, on the basis of being woke, or accepting, or whatever it is they are calling it, is so demeaning, degrading, and unfair. We must keep speaking up and asking, why is the left trying to erase women? It is not an overstatement, it is not being overly dramatic, it is a fact.
Perhaps the real cause of feminism, has finally arrived.
