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Originally Posted by 33girl
ANY sorority you join will have a stereotype. If you get into one of the more "popular" sororities, you'll have people saying (often out of jealousy) that the girls are fake...or that they're all cokeheads...or anorexic...or hate each other. If you get in a sorority with a lot of athletes, you'll hear the "lady jock" rumors. A sorority with a high GPA is called a bunch of no fun brainy geeks.
Then there are those people who paint ALL Greeks with the same negative brush. You didn't let those people stop you from rushing in the first place, so don't let the same kind of talk keep you from joining a sorority if it is one you really do like.
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The above tidbit is quoted from
this thread titled "Live Recruitment" from earlier this year.
The reason I have it here is because.. I kinda wanted to address this topic. I would have addressed it in that thread, but it has been so long since it happened that I didn't want to because I figured no one would read it.
Either way, here's what I wanted to say.
Lately, I've been talking to a 'friend' (don't know him well enough to call him a true friend yet, plus, he is kinda trying to sabotage me) about recruitment in a few weeks because he is a part of XYZ fraternity.
The first couple times I talked to him about it, he basically pleaded with me not to go through with it. "It was the worst decision of my life. I HATE my brothers. They are nothing like me. Blah blah blah." From our conversations, he basically isn't your typically "frat. boy" in the sense that he is.. well.. I''m trying to phrase this in a way that doesn't offend anyone. His personality is closer to the "I hate the Greek System because they are all idiots and Jack A$$es."
With this in mind, I take a whole barrel of salt with everything he tells me.
"ABC's are all Vapid whores."
"XY's are all fat and are only in that sorority because their daddies pay their way in."
"MNO parties really hard, which leads to harder hazing."
Now, mind you, he has told me more than five times that he doesn't know many sorority girls, and all this is rumor (or "tent talk" if you will) or speculation. Also keep in mind that I have proof that two of the above is wildly false (I have a few girls from my high school who joined sororities.)
Now, as you can probably imagine, I am both scared of what he says (for fear its true) and trying to ignore everything he says because he has had such a rough time in XYZ himself.
Like the above quote mentions in the last 'paragraph', there are people who paint all Greeks negatively. I seem to have found most of these people as my friends/family/acquaintances, not sure why.
I don't exactly have a question for you all today, more of an explanation and I just wanted to touch this topic briefly as I feel I'm fighting a losing battle in trying to convince the people I know and love (some of them, not the guy mentioned above) to support me in the endeavorers.