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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Well, you'd likely never see most fraternities referring to someone who hasn't been fully initiated yet as a "new member" either. 
I never understood why calling someone a pledge could be considered demeaning. (Full disclosure -- we stopped calling them pledges in the 70s, instead using "probationary member," often shortened in practice to PM, probe, probate or the like.) Demeaning was when we used to call pledges "worms."
Except in the orgs that do call persons pledges. I understand the motivations behind statements like this, but IMO they come across as subtle criticisms of other orgs that do things differently. |
Ugh, I remember that "a pledge is a promise not a person" statement. I want to respond with "you may have members, but I have sisters."
If that's the reasoning they're going to use, call them "pledge sisters." "New members" gets shortened to "NMs" and WTH is that?