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I'd like to say something about what pledge is going through.
1) First, I would like to say this: no one told me either that after you join a sorority, you could be left out of things. When this happened, it really hurt. No one says at recruitment "Not everyone is going to like one another." Who would say that? That'd be bad marketing. But some people join because they want to belong to a group where they, well, BELONG. It hurts to be excluded from things that go on in an exclusive group. C'mon, a clique within a sorority was not something I ever thought would happen, but it did. I have to say that I understand how she may be feeling.
2) She may sound angry, but to me, I hear hurt and fear. She put herself on the line here. She took risks to belong to a group and she's already feeling excluded. So, I do agree about the criticizing the sisters, but it sounds as if her fear is manifesting itself in anger and she's lashing out when she really may want to know "Is there something wrong with me that this new group of friends doesn't like me (or so it seems)?"
I could be wrong, but this was how I felt...
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