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Originally posted by MysticCat81
But seriously, why in the world would you wear a pledge pin on your underwear? How would that be considered respectful? Referring you to my previous post, plenty of fraternities do require pledges to wear pledge pins "24/7" (excepting the shower, sleepwear or athletic uniforms, etc.) In other words, if you're wearing clothes, unless it's a uniform of some sort, you should also be wearing your pledge pin. I guess I was presuming that everyone knew I meant specifically that your pledge pin should be on your shirt, sweater or sweatshirt, not on underwear. After all, the purposes of having pledges wear the pledge pin are (1) to show everyone else that he is a pledge, and (2) to demonstrate respect for and pride in the fraternity. Neither of these are accomplished when the pledge pin is on underwear.
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Oh see...yeah I understand about the whole wearing 24/7 if you wear it on a shirt or something...I would graciously do that. But the way it was explained to us was that We are to wear it on our underwear because NO ONE is to know that we are pledges of this sorority....if someone from rush (or our friends) were to ask "
hey what happened to you and Sorority X?" We were supposed to say that we dropped out. No one was to know until the end of our pledge process when we crossed. We couldn't show pride for the sorority because we were never supposed to affiliate with them. We could say "hi" to the girls during school, but never talk to them. We couldn't say that we were new members of Sorority X or even say anything about Sorority X.
That was the explanation given to us about why we had to wear the pledge pin on our bra. And I totally agree with you, nothing is accomplished with a pledge pin on the underwear...but that rule wasn't made by me. They used the old excuse "well it happened to me, so its gonna happen to you."