just playing devil's advocate but
Did the founders of Alpha pledge themselves? (since you can't be a true Alpha without pledging) Did their very first line pledge, i mean in terms of exactly how it is done today? I ask only because my founders did not pledge they "founded" AKA, they were worthy before AKA "understand" and they chose women who were already worthy of the honor, because of how excellent they already were. My founders and the early members are to me the Epitome of AKA women. does this make any sense. I do believe in a pledge process to build deeper unity before crossing with your frat/sorors i think the current process sucks, i don't like sorors coming in not knowing a darn thing and skeeweeing my ear off
however i will not blame them or distance myself from them, (i need to teach them, that's what real brothers and sisters do) for the mistakes that previous members have made that caused pledging to be banned in the first place. what i'm saying is although i agree with a pledge process with dignity, does it really make the man or the woman since pledging is lifelong in many aspects. we need to make changes for sure, but in the mean time can't we show love for those young folks who are trying to follow in our footsteps.