[FuzzieAlum]

Take a look at the thread "normal women represent." Would guys ever have a thread like that? "Man, I'm so sick of seeing buff guys in magazines. I want those of us with beer guts to stand up loud and proud! I'm tired of being told I'm overweight." "Hey, there's nothing wrong with being buff, as long as you're not an exercuse bulimic." "Dude, I work hard to be buff. Don't bring me down." "I've seen pics of you, and you are not overweight. Be proud of your body!"

The point is that men and women, in general, think pretty differently. Women are more concerned with meeting some "standard" that is pretty hard to reach in reality. We have to be ultra-skinny, and we have to be in the "right" sorority. Lots of women on here have said, "I wasn't sure about my bid from XYZ, because they weren't a top house on campus." How many men say that? Are there a lot of men crying on bid day because Beta didn't give them a bid?

What the quota system believes is that if the women's system were run like the men's system, the imbalances in chapter size would be much, much larger than they are on the IFC side. And they would grow worse over time instead of remaining relatively constant. You'd have a 300-woman house and a 10-woman house. Of course, there's no way to test that theory short of actually changing the system.

That's not to say I don't have any criticisms of the system myself, but it's not so ludicrous as some people think it to be.