Salience, you are in no position to state a "qualified" opinion, though you are entitled to your specious and un-informed one. Did any pro-pledging person mention or justify abusing anyone? Did anyone say that if they didn't smack you in the face that they would not consider you a soror? I have been a member of my frat for more than 10 yrs without ever smacking, injuring, or humiliating another Black man, however everyone under my jurisdiction PLEDGED their A$$ off. Some dropped, some didn't want it enuff, some were cat, but the REAL MEAN made it. If pledging isn't for you, if you can't humble yourself, or if you think you deserve the letters because you have the grades and some community service, so be it. If you feel what 100,000 other women went thru to get their letters is beneath your dignity, thats cool also, but you want whatever sorority you want because of the traditions and the people who pledged under those same traditions built and stand for. And can we please drop the argument about the "founders not pledging" The founders designed the pledge process. They were alive during the worse periods of hazing and not one of the Elite 8 founders tried to ban pledging. One of my founders was chairman of the Pledge Committee til he died in 1972. If he designed and oversaw the pledge process, thats good enough for me.
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