I think there are different ways to think of this.
I think that our society is still immature. Fortunately, many people have outgrown ignorance and intolerance. Unfortunately, some haven't.
The obvious intolerance would be that of racism. We have come a long way, but still not far enough. Even religious intolerance has come quite far, yet still people showed their ignorance after 9-11.
But one form of hate that is almost still considered "safe" or "acceptable" by society is that which is directed towards overweight people. I am not one. I am a small girl. But one of my best friends from waaaaaaaay back in grade school, and from church is extremely overweight. She always was, from childhood. And she ate better than I did! At her house, even a dolop of ketchup was measured, to control calories for her whole family, who all have weight issues. She cannot help it. She is an amazing woman and friend. She is one of the coolest people I have known and definitely one of the funniest!
When she went to college, she majored in music (just like me) and found a wonderful sisterhood in Tau Beta Sigma. The stories she tells!! She had a great time! With people who love her for who she is!
So I think about this. Would she have gotten into a social sorority if she had rushed an NPC? I dunno. And that makes me pissed! I think that groups are willing to take an overweight girl. The catch is: They are not willing to risk showing others that they would!
"If we invite her back, then all the rushees will look and say, 'this sorority's rushees are not as cute as the ones in the other parties I went to'. And then the guys might not invite us to have mixers...and you KNOW what happens to sororities who have little or no mixer bids....." blah, blah, blah...
I think that SUCKS!!!!!! Anyone looked at your alums lately? Are they all Miss America? Probably some of them are....*gasp* FAT!!!!!!!
Anyone looked at yourselves lately? OMG, some of you are overweight too!
And I don't even want to get into how many people I know have had lipo, breast jobs, nose, ears, you name it!
Why can't we just all be who we are and love each other and not care about what others think!?
I am getting a little rambley in my post, so I will close by saying that the panhellenic creed (a creed for ALL NPC orgs) says nothing about size dammit!
That is all...
