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Originally Posted by 33girl
Exactly. You're not a member until you're initiated.
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That's one of the most vexing terms for me. Back when I was a pledge, I didn't mind being called a pledge because, well, I WAS a pledge. I looked forward to going through initiation and gaining the right to be called "sister". I don't like that things have become so PC that pledges don't have to "earn" their sisterhood.***
It reminds me of how Maryland's governor Martin O'Malley insists on calling illegal immigrants "New Americans".
I mean, you can bake half a dozen baseballs and call them biscuits, but they'll still be baseballs. Unless they're biscuits I baked. In which case they will actually be biscuits but will taste more like baseballs.
***by "earning their sisterhood", I don't mean having to dress identically and walk together through campus, submitting to being forced to drink and being dumped somewhere and having to find a way home or any other demeaning or dangerous acts we know to be hazing. I'm talking about things like I had to do like learning about our Founders and our history, learning a little about other sororities, going to mandatory study hours and weekly meetings.