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Also a cautionary word:
IT is both presumptious and pretentious to fervently maintain the attitutude that people that are not Greek should not comment on Greek issues because they can't understand them.
People are speaking about being Greek as if it causes the growth of some new sensory organ that permits feelings and experiences that other non-greek humans can't have. This is not true.
And to use that untrue concept to outright dismiss and/or trivialize the viewpoints and insights of others violates the spirit of free discourse as well as being an inferior way to argue.
When doing this the argument becomes more about diminishing the person in order to win a point. Its a classic ploy to say, "you just can't/don't understand" to dismiss someone's arguments that people just don't want to hear or have no real good answer for.
I see on one ever telling a non-Greek that Greek Life is beyond their scope when they are speaking in praise of Greek Life.
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