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I don't know, everyone. I just have such mixed feelings about the show. You know, I start my graduate assistantship in Greek Life the week after next, and I know we are going to get lots of calls from PNM and parent's.
Here's some thoughts...
1) Did you all watch Road Rules beforehand? They had a teaser for Sorority Life during RR, and the teaser reads, "Life's a bitch and we have a whole house full of them." Gee, isn't that nice. I thought that was a bit crass.
2) Not sure how I feel about the whole Jewish selectivity thing. I guess what I fear would happen is that traditionally Jewish sororities across the nation would feel some backlash as being pegged for not admitting non-Jewish women. Who was it that had a great thread on here about Jewish chapter history and demographic make-up of those historically Jewish chapters.
3) What is the deal with all of the archaic terms...i.e., Pledge Master, Rush, Pledgeship?
4) Why wasn't there a big sisterhood fling when the bids were passed out?
5) This kills me....for those of you who have been on the other side of recruitment, you know this happens...but why on TV? Ok, when the recruitment parties are over for the day, we all go into our chapter rooms and vote on the PNM's. We get into some heated discussions on a few women where we have a conflict of interest. BUT, what goes on in the chapter room, stays in the chapter room. What I am trying to say is WHY on earth would they allow MTV to air the selection process? It is true that there are women that are extended bids from chapters where there was a member who didn't want them in the chapter. But, the PNM is never to know that or know who. So, these poor girls are going to know exactly who wanted them in and who didn't. I don't want to know if there was someone who didn't want me in the house. And, that's just how we keep it.
I guess I am just frustrated because for the 99.9% of us out here, we know that this isn't exactly representative of how it's like. It definitely wasn't a horrible depiction of the women. But, the PNM's watching the show are going to think this is how it is everywhere. They don't know it's different on other campuses and other chapters.
So, I guess I'm sure that many PNM's could get nervous when they realize that formal recruitment at many campuses is more structured and somewhat of a cattleherd method.
Again, I have mixed feelings...but overall, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's just like Real World. You pick 6 strangers to live in a house that's been MTVized. Gee, they've got the minority, they threw out the religion card, they have the girl who transferred and doesn't know anyone, the girl who is different because she's so smart and younger than the rest, and supposedly they'll have to kick someone out of the chapter.....Gee, I wonder who the token lesbian is going to be?
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