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Originally posted by crunchies
I could make friends on my own that I woudln't have to dish out a couple thousand dollars a year for.
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So before this comment, I was kind of a sympathetic ear. Let's face it, Greeks DO care what other Greeks think of them. And at school like Texas part of the fun of being Greek is hanging out and partying with all the other Greeks in the community. And a lot of times that is missing when you join a group that has a negative label among other Greeks or one that isn't true but makes others not want to do stuff with them. I can see where you might not of known this about your sorority before joining because Texas is really big and if you aren't Greek you probably don't know anything about them except that they are around.
But, even I am having trouble jumping to your defense if you are defineing membership in a sorority as "dishing out a couple thousand dollars" to make friends. If that is how you think it works, then I guess I can understand you getting all pissed off when your couple of thousand bucks only buys you 100 friends when everyone else gets 180! What a rip-off!
But making comments like that is what gets people all hostile.
And for the record, of course no one thinks you are the only one who thinks like you do. Most people on this board know exactly what your talking about when you are having these thoughts about your chapter and the insecurities you're feeling, but if you spent any time on Greekchat just reading you would know that this community tries to discourage that kind of thinking that groups on big campuses love to prepetuate. (You know, that "ABC is the best and XYZ sucks" crap.) Everyone knows it exists, but this is kind of a place where people like to squelch it and call everyone on that garbage. At the very least, they try not to reinforce the attitude, so probably you arent gonna feel the love on this topic.