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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
I never said that my organization is the same as all the rest. . . . And when I say that your letters identify you as part of an organization… that’s to say… the Greek letters are just that… letters. . . . Everyone talks about their own organizations on here. Is this suddenly not allowed?
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Of course it's allowed. It's encouraged and welcome. But look at what you said:
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
But your letters define you as a member of the organization, whether you’re a brother/sister or a new member who just went through their first ceremony. The actual letters on a page mean very little.
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If you had said something like, "
our letters define us as members whether one is a
sister or not," it would be clear you're talking about your organization. But when you say "
your letters . . . whether you're a
brother or not," I'm not going to interpret your comments as limited to AST. Likewise with this:
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
Essentially, your letters simply identify you as part of one organization as opposed to another. They "name" your organization.
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If you just mean
your organization, then don't phrase it like you're talking about GLOs in general.
Then there was this:
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
The point of being in a brotherhood/sisterhood is to welcome new members, to make new friends, and to form life-long connections. It’s not to make people feel like outsiders by denying them something as basic as wearing the letters that associate them with that organization.
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If you're talking about AST's approach to integrating new members, then why mention "the point of being in a brotherhood"?
This is why your post came across to me (and, I think, others) as a commentary on GLOs in general, and why it came across as suggesting that GLOs that do things differently from the way you describe are, for lack of a better word, "wrong."