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Originally Posted by MysticCat
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."
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The title of Pledge was most often attached to the treatment of pledges--a pledge process which was linked to hazing for many chapters.
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
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.
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Exactly.
A pledge is a person and a process and a promise.
(How did this thread turn into another one of THOSE threads. LOL.)