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Originally posted by valkyrie
Eh, I doubt anyone is really thinking in terms of lazy. I think it's purely superficial. I also think that it's much easier to tell, objectively, whether someone is overweight or obese than it is to tell if someone is ugly. "Ugly" is subjective.
I hate to even be saying this, but you know, we should be honest that at some schools, looks matter. A lot.
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Word.
I hate that we pretend again and again that looks don't matter during rush. They do. How much varies from campus to campus, chapter to chapter. On the whole, I don't think any of us are as shallow as we are made out to be in the mainstream media. There are no houses with scales under the floors, and I would be surprised if there are MANY (I'm sure there are a few) houses where they hold up your picture during membership selection meetings and somebody screams, "NO FATTIES!" -- at least in my chapter, we NEVER commented on somebody's appearance during MSM. I imagine this is the case for almost every house across the nation, even the ones with the really beautiful girls. I think the beauty standards are just sort of implicit rather than the blatant stuff we're accused of.
But come on, you guys. I think all of you know that there is at least one house on your campus, probably more, where looks matter. Quite possibly they matter to varying degrees at EVERY house. How reprehensible this is matters on the degree, because god knows that looks matter in LIFE, not just rush.