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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
For what?
The best way to debunk myths is by continuing to be successful in what you do without needing to say "hey! I'm not a dumb sorority girl...I'm an engineering major." That screams airhead to me.
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I've managed to challenge a few stereotypes individuals had about sorority women (NPC mostly because we're most visible on my campus) by just being me and doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I don't hide my affiliation, but it isn't the first thing about me that I tell people about. Usually when they say "but you're so smart and not <insert insult here> (drunk, skanky, air headed, boy crazy)" they realize that was kind of an assy thing to say. It is really annoying when you work hard in school and the community, and all it takes to tarnish your good image is some idiot driving drunk, hitting a fire hydrant and flooding the local hospital (true story) or someone to come to class in letters, hungover and unprepared, and if they aren't sleeping talk incessantly about how trashed they got at the TriLambs.