...I will have to respectfully disagree with you Barbara -- and I am shocked that I do disagree with you as everything I have read from you up till this point I have pretty much agreed with...But not this time...perhaps my advancing years have dulled my comprehension of your point -- I am not as "sharp" as I used to be, but honestly I fail to see how saying in a post "Go Gamma Phi" or "Yay Zeta" or "I Love Theta" or "Alpha Xi Delta is the best" or whatever can negatively influence a rushee...I don't understand how that can put stress on an already stressful time...and I don't get how a shameless plug disrespects a rushee's right to choose her own sorority at her college campus. Personally, I do NOT want every PNM whose rush thread I read on GC to become a member of my sorority -- some of the women exhibit traits in their posts that I'd just as soon my sorority do without!
I'm thinking that if what you've said is taken to the next step, all of our GC handles and signatures should be totally vanilla & plain...after all, those too are shameless plugs.
I think that PNMs log onto GC for a reason -- they are seeking something from Greeks like you and I -- whether it's advice, or another perspective, or a shoulder to cry on, or shared happiness, or the benefit of wisdom & experience or whatever -- I'd like to think that these women will not be harmed by a little shameless plug...I'd like to think they will be impressed by the pride each of us so rightly has in our own sororities...because that after all is what propels us to make a shameless plug in the first place, isn't it?
