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Originally posted by trixxi
As someone who was in the commercial for the "sorority life" show, I can speak first hand about how editing completely changes things. We were all asked questions and gave short responses to those questions. One question was what you would say to someone who doesn't like sororities. Some of us gave answers like "you might think that it's all about parties, but really..." and they just used the part that said "parties." They asked us specifically about the social scene so we said, "yeah there are parties, but that's not our focus" and they just use "parties." You'll notice that there are no complete sentences, just two or three words because they used our words COMPLETELY out of context. They never asked us what the real reason was for our joining a sorority in those interviews. They just added that in during post-production. Therefore, I urge all of you to think critically about what you see. Realize that's it's only a tiny fraction of what they shot, that we might say things like "she's this or that, but i still love her as a sister" and they could cut that second part out. Also, they clearly can take our answers to one question and pretend they've asked us another. We are not selfish girls, and we aren't out to ruin the reputation of any house. We thought that we could dispell some of the stereotypes that exist. That is why we entered into this and that's what we'd hoped to have gotten out of it.
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If you think the commercials are bad, then you better sit down and hold tight when the first episode airs. I can promise you that the show itself is going to be 100 times worse than any commercial.
Did the fact that the
vast majority of sororities wouldn't touch this thing with a ten foot pole not give the chapter
any indication that participating in the show might be a bad idea???
I'm sorry that this post is so harsh, but I am just blown away by the apparent lack of rational thought in the decision to participate in the MTV show. I suppose some lessons are learned the hard way and the chapter will know to "just say no" the next time a TV crew comes knocking -- but it's a sad shame that the Greeks (national and local alike) who flat-out
knew that the show would cause problems and did their best to prevent it from happening are going to be hurt by the actions of some short-sighted people.
