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Originally posted by 33girl
This just shows the fundamental conceit that is very real in the NPC. They deny their member groups, that they are rightly proud of, the chance to be on TV. So MTV finds a non-NPC sorority and films them - then NPC cries foul! "No! We're nothing like that! Our x, y, z is 180 degrees from that!" They wrongly believed that if MTV couldn't get an NPC sorority, which of course are the ONLY groups that MATTER (sarcasm), they wouldn't bother. If you don't stand up and speak up for yourself, then you can't be mad when someone else puts words in your mouth.
Like JAM said, we had an image prob before this - from risk management, but also from the snobbery that does exist in some chapters. I agree that the Sigmas made a bad decision, but everytime someone says something negative about them, we just pound another nail in our own coffin. It's done. We can't undo it. So let's stop raking these girls over the coals for things that aren't even related to the show.
As far as the slap, as s & s pointed out, this was behavior between PLEDGES and if you'll recall, everyone who wanted to pledge received a bid. They had no idea what kind of pledges they were going to get - they didn't change their selection method because they had decided they were going to give bids out like this long ago -- they didn't want to be choosing. Furthermore, this was last week's episode. It might be resolved on tomorrow night's ep, or it might have been resolved that night - but without seeing the 95% of their lives that ended up on the cutting room floor, we'll never know. It saddens me that so many people automatically assume the worst, that it was just blown off, instead of that it was resolved and edited out.
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This is the BEST post in this entire thread.
I will say it again. WHAT GOOD IS COMING FROM BASHING THEM, THE SHOW, ANYTHING??? If you need to vent, that's fine. But you cannot get pissed when others notice how your venting is indicitive of something else. Perhaps if you all were more sure that your own org was not guilty of MOST (the slap notwithstanding) of the things that aired on Sorority Life, you would not be so inclined to get defensive. who on earth cares what outsiders think? If you are doing your thing like you are supposed to, and you are projecting a positive image, then why worry? You cannot please everyone, nor can you hope to eradicate all ignorance. If the fact that the show has perpetuated stereotypes bothers you, THEN DON'T DO IT YOURSELF. And CERTAINLY don't complain about it WHILE doing it yourself. The best remedy to ensure that the show doesn't have such negative ramifications is to get out and work and show that Greeks do, in fact, do more than party, drink, slap each other, and wreck shop in general.