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Thank you, AOIIAngel and SWTXBelle, for clarifying 2 very important points.
I did not attend Barnard, as JWSteele assumes, so again, please try not to presume you know what school or chapter(s) I am talking about. I am glad that your friend's chapter there is very well-rounded. I would never presume that any and all chapters with attractive women and good image could not also be well-rounded. It is too bad people at Barnard have viewed her chapter as such.
I simply pointed out that unfortunately, there are superficial chapters out there, even at the schools where greek life is not big and so many other factors like the ones you mentioned could otherwise make for some great, diverse chapters. It's a fact, not a stereotype, that some women have chosen to push this when they recruit. Maybe they have wonderful attributes among their individual members. But that is not what comes across because of the way they have chosen to market themselves on campus. Even though your friend's chapter was not thankfully not like that, you cannot presume to know what all other chapters on these campuses are like.
I also think it's important to note that while I can speak candidly on GC, because we are somewhat "internal" here, primarily among GLO members, about the concerns I have about stereotyping, I would not and do not ever publicly badmouth the particular GLO chapters I referred to earlier or perpetuate the sterotypes. I'm actually quite involved in NPC and one of my main tasks each year is to make sure girls from this area get referred to every one of the houses in the NPC, no matter where they go to school.
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