| BrownEyedGirl |
12-05-2003 02:29 PM |
Re: shocked...no REALLY I AM!
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Originally posted by amazinglagirl
By the way, if you are not yet in a sorority, and you plan to rush in the south, do not even THINK about doing this...you will be doomed to be dropped from all the good ones who still regard appropriate social ettiquette and good reputation as one of the cornerstones of membership in good standing.
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AmazingLAGirl, I am sure that KD at LSU is an outstanding, conservative, well-mannered southern chapter of an outstanding sorority. I, however, am an alumna of an equally outstanding southern sorority from a very conservative "Bible Belt" school, and I have to say I think you are approaching this issue the wrong way altogether. Issues like this, especially in the South, are issues to be dealt with privately, among sisters. The reason I haven't posted my opinion is because I think some decisions should remain personal. If one of my sisters, or friends who could potentially become sisters, were behaving in a way that I felt was inappropriate or represented our GLO badly, I would speak to her individually. Having an all-caps, multi-post, all-or-nothing GC brawl is not the way to represent yourself as a well-mannered, southern sorority woman. I think being judgemental is as crass as "whoring yourself out" (not saying I agree with your definition of that), and just as public an offense. I suggest you reexamine your motives here, and leave the outspoken advice/diatribes to people you know in your own life and sorority. Threatening someone or implying that their efforts to join a GLO if they don't change their "immoral" ways certainly does not reflect well on you. I am sure you are a well-meaning, thoughtful person who is hoping to spare Catie some pain and embarassment, but your means of expressing that is contradictory, to say the least. So, from one southern sorority girl to another, I'd say the best way to handle this situation is to tone down your vehemence, deal with it personally, or (better yet), bow out gracefully without offending any more moderators or older GC'ers than you already have. |
