[*winter*]

In my sorority, if you wanted to be a sister, we took you on as a pledge. Pledges had to do their pledge assignments and pass quizzes- the pledge period was work, and not everyone was up for it. Nowadays things like pledge interviews would be considered hazing like, but nothing we did posed a true mental or physical risk to us, and we enjoyed the pledge process. It was rare for us to have pledges drop out, and usually only happened because of extenuating circumstances in that person’s life.

I’ve heard not all GSS chapters work this way, but it’s pretty strongly written into the rules of the organization that this is how it should work.

It just annoys me that these college students nowadays are acting like they’ve come up with some great new “woke” idea that there should be organizations that anyone can join- when my organization has existed for almost 70 years.

One of the things that bothers me about all of this is that...in some of the accounts I’ve read from women who have disaffiliated...they joined and were quite happy in the organization for many months or even years. It’s not until they experience their own “ding” that they suddenly decide the whole thing is not for them (often involving standards, or no longer being a part of the “in” crowd). Then- and only then- all of a sudden, they are the most woke people in the planet and have a problem with THE WHOLE SYSTEM and it needs to GO AWAY ASAP.

Just seems sort of hypocritical, that’s all. It’s like they don’t really care about being woke, or anything D&I and they are jumping on a bandwagon to throw dirt at organizations they have problems with for other reasons.

It’s like, the whole thing is okay, as long as it’s benefitting then. When it stops, it’s evil and needs to be destroyed.