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Originally Posted by DGTess
I find myself wondering what it says to women who are going to rush at other schools. It may speak to the personality of one chapter, but does it portray something the organization wants portrayed overall?
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I said something similar in mods' corner. I'd hate to think a young woman at my alma mater (or yours for that matter) would choose not to rush because she doesn't feel she fits this mold. And, to go the other way, I'd hate for a woman at Alabama to not rush if she saw a rush video from MY school and didn't feel she fit the mold. I know that people should be able to understand that all Greek systems are different, but when the media is slamming one particular example in your face, you might begin to question whether that's really true.
A few years back I had a fight with a poster on this very board where she was insisting that sorority rush is no different than any other kind of marketing. Now this poster was a sketchy mono and a perp but besides all that, she was wrong. When forever 21 tries to get you to buy a sweater, they're not promising that sweater will be with you for the rest of its life. They're not promising that sweater will make you a better person. I will never forget what one of the collegian from one of our other chapters (supposedly a "party all the time, don't give a crap about anything else" chapter) wrote to me when my chapter closed - she said " these letters are not an advertisement, they mean something."