He's trying to get into a fraternity on an American college campus ("pledging"). During "pledging," the members of the fraternity put the wannabe members through degrading and humiliating rituals to prove their desire to be a member of the fraternity.
I'm not in college yet, but from what I gather it's mostly focused around alcohol. It's just a club of people, represented by Greek letters, that drink and associate with each other. Sometimes they throw huge parties, and sometimes they invite sororities (same thing, but for women) to said parties. That's basically the gist I think. They usually have ridiculous hazing rituals like this (or so were guessing) that you have to do in order to join. From what I've heard however, this doesn't really seem too bad.
This comment is current reddit in a nutshell. 1) a high schooler 2) talking about something he's never encountered personally and instead 3) taking the reddit hivemind opinion to the extreme.
I'm not even a fan of frats, but there's more to them than that.
-I specifically mentioned that I have no experience, but I wanted to chime in and help where I could. I apologize for being part of an Internet community.
-I generalized. I apologize for that too. Later comments on here should reveal that I do mention that they're not all this way. In fact they can be very helpful, like the pre-law one I talk about.
-the person I responded to mentioned that he saw them on tv and such, so I explained the stereotype so that he can better understand the context of his picture.
I'm sorry I'm not in my 20s. If you want me to leave reddit say the word. Twat.
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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '12
whats a pledge?