You think the author wrote a book that's critical of sororities? Check out this woman who reviewed her:
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=pulps&s=zimmerman052704
"But how cynical of me! Wouldn't it be more fun just to talk about the peer-pressured clitoral piercings? Or the rousing games of "Circle the Fat"--which make you a better person because you can, like, know which of your body parts need improvement? Or how about the eternal favorite--the "drink an entire bottle of vodka, get slipped a mickey, and get date-raped" game? (And then sleep with the date-rapist again a few months later because, you know, you're feeling really bad about not having a date for Formal.) OK, so that last one isn't a game, but it does seem to happen with enough regularity--and often ambivalence--that it sure could be. And through it all, your sisters are there for you: to point out your "problem zones," to gossip about you behind your back, to force you to break up with your non-Greek boyfriend and your old girlfriends, to tell you what to wear, to make you strip in front of frat boys, to force-feed you grain alcohol, and to make you pay tons of cash for the privilege of it all. Screw those snotty lesbian Seven Sisters schools--sorority life is where sisterhood is at. "
Sacha Zimmerman , former assistant managing editor at TNR, is an associate editor at Reader's Digest.
Now the New Republic is a pretty intelligent, liberal, publication. Reviews like this and other stories that are extremely stupid do come up, but RARELY. If you are planning to write any emails, put serious thought into what you would say.
-Rudey