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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
Rats! This is what I was thinking, too. Now it's too late.
Look. We're talking about a process that involves thousands of young women devoting hundreds of thousands of hours over the course of each school year to their shmoozing skills, matching outfits, decorations, chants, song-and-dance routines, rotational techniques, and even seminars with marketing consultants.
It doesn't make sense to have an attack of the vapors when we learn that -- mercy! -- a consumer of this marketing is actually INFLUENCED by appearances! Break out the smelling salts.
If shallow marketing didn't work on PNMs, groups would not waste their time. I don't think anyone would have jumped down Vixen's throat for saying, "ABC's pref decorations were so beautiful! I felt like I was walking into a fairy castle! I decided right then on ABC!" But honestly, that kind of thing is even less substantive than attractiveness. You can probably learn more about the vibe of a group from the looks of the girls than you can from their skill at pinning Christmas lights to the ceiling.
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You are so right! That is why I really, really HATE recruitment! It is so false and cheesy! I hope no one joins AOII because they liked our dresses at pref! I guess some do, so I shouldn't be surprised. It really is hard to convince people that sorority life is more than just a popularity contest when we make our intake process one (speaking of recruitment in general not MS secrets of AOII so don't start that!
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