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This is an issue that I'm really divided on.
I think I'd be upset if I ran into someone who was wearing a Beta shirt that was obviously something other than an event shirt ( so no pride week shirts, no brotherhood shirts, no "lettered" shirts). But that would come more from the aspect of me feeling like they were lying to me.
On the other hand, I know that the shirt wouldn't really mean anything to them, like it does for me. So on that note I dont' really mind. As for the arguement of earning letters...I tend to think that pledging should not be a period of showing worthiness, if you recruit well you should have worthy members. Therefore pledging should be the pledge showing their desire to become a member, and to learn about the organization of which they are going to be a part of so that they can be good members once they initiate.
As for members of the opposite sex wearing my letters...no big deal here. I've given party shirts to girls before, and will do so in the future. I've also given my little brother Beta party shirts and I hope he enjoys wearing them, while also teaching others about Greek life (I gave him a big lecture about the fraternity/frat thing).
In the end I think every thing comes down to your perspective. Is anything absolutely horrible likely to happen by someone else wearing your letters? Granted anything is possible, and you'd prefer not to have someone doing something bad be identified as part of your GLO, but overall is there likely to be a lot of harm done?
Further, is you accosting a person wearing your letters going to come off as anything but elitest..."You can't wear those because they belong to me!!!" Not necessarily an attitude I think most greeks are trying to promote.
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