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Originally Posted by porkfriedrice
Is it awful of me to say that I think anyone who joined a GLO at an SEC school is pretty much a stereotype? That's really where it stems from so...I mean you kind of have to be. Lily Pulitzer, beauty pageants, etc etc.
We don't do that up north and we don't need to. Am I wrong here?
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I'm trying to ignore the gauntlet you've throw down there.
It's nice bait, but surely, you are kidding, right?
ETA: Going with the idea you aren't, I think it's fair to say that SEC rush is goofy and it may keep a lot of good people from participating in the system who might in a different region (not that they get cut; just that they won't do it).
And there may be a certain strata of groups, like the ones Macallen25 probably has in mind, where looking at pictures of the groups, you'd think maybe of the Barbie stereotype, but when you actually interact with the group members, the attitudes and behaviors are down to earth and normal and really gracious. One might want to believe that they are too good to be true so they must be catty behind people's backs, but they aren't particularly. They have authentically good manners and are as likely to be truly friendly and kind as any other group of people. (I mean, surely you don't think the SECers have cornered the market on catty on GreekChat, do you?)
I think you hear the horror stories on here and because recruitment is bizarre in the SEC, I understand that reading about it here might make you think that everyone willing to do must really must buy in, but they don't.
Also, when I think of stereotypical images of sorority girls, they suggest kind of dumb, mean, and materialistic (like the recruitment twin story) but the reality is that nobody (or almost nobody) is actually like that, even at SEC schools.