Sorority Rush is the Most Important Unimportant Thing Ever

[ASTalumna06]

Love this. It pretty much sums up what we always try to get across to PNMs here on Greekchat.. and how PNMs should try to find their "sistas-4-life".

http://jezebel.com/5926403/sorority-...ant-thing-ever

[pinapple]

Chances are that your daughter did not exit high school a social vegetable; if she wants to ride along on the Sisterhood Selection Tour, she already knows how to form sentences in the presence of other people. She doesn't "need a filter," as Baselice says of coaching her own dear daughter. If your kid has verbal diarrhea, let her rush with shit a-spewing because she's more likely end up somewhere with girls who like the real her. Will it be a "top" house? Who knows or cares? It's meaningless. And if she doesn't make the cut at the house that has the best eighteen-ways with the "best" frats, she'll get over it (and probably feel retroactively grateful upon graduation). Really.

But if you're molding your daughter into some sort of top tier rush crush automaton and, fingers crossed, she ends up in The Best House as determined by an imaginary campus election, consider this: After the initial high of success and acceptance — she scored a seat at the best lunch table! — wears off, she may not be happy. Her real personality might not mesh with her peers once the pledge period is over. Being deemed "bestest" to join the "best" house is not a guarantee that she will enjoy herself. I mean, maybe she will! But if being herself isn't why she ended up there, if your girl is faking her way through rush and, in turn, the next few years with her "sisters," it's going to take her that much longer to find those both herself (which is the important part, but Panhel never tells you that) and those "lifelong friends" you keep hearing about.

This, this, this!!!

[carnation]

Rolling on the floor at the quote about verbal diarrhea!

[Old_Row]

I don't know. I think where you are during that four years can be very important and sometimes people here forget what it's like to be a kid and going through and living it. It's really different once you are older and have a different perspective I think.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

What GC'er just posted over there about lycra catsuits?

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

What GC'er just posted over there about lycra catsuits?

Haha.. I saw that earlier and thought the same thing!

[angels&angles]

I don't know, this just sent off alarm bells:

In Birmingham, Alabama, a mere $100 buys a prospective rushee and her mother the wisdom of Rushbiddies, a rushee consulting firm that offers two-day workshops designed to prep these young ladies get into the best sisterhood friendship club (pro tip: Lilly Pulitzer has a "sorority" line; make good use of it).

What? No! Nononono!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

What GC'er just posted over there about lycra catsuits?

Well, it's someone with convention this year in a GLO that performs initiation at convention. That rules out an AOII.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

I don't know, this just sent off alarm bells:



What? No! Nononono!

Oh yeah! And Atlanta has some too!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Oh yeah! And Atlanta has some too!

I think the alarm bells were more for them saying "make good use of the Lily sorority line." Can you imagine some poor girl walking in to a rush party wearing the Lily prints?

I really hate Jezebel. It's the sort of "feminism" that makes me not ever want to call myself a feminist. That is....women are great, as long as they are great in the way we want them to be. Anything positive that article might have had to say is overshadowed by references to "that damn pin" and the like.

[Titchou]

I assure you that many PNMs show up in Lily prints.....

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Titchou

I assure you that many PNMs show up in Lily prints.....

The sorority specific ones? That's what's getting the side-eye.

[Shellfish]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Well, it's someone with convention this year in a GLO that performs initiation at convention. That rules out an AOII.

Darn it. No one's supposed to give away KD's secret.

Kidding! It has to be a group that had its convention last year, because the thread is from 2012.

[AGDAlum]

The article quotes a "Julie Baselice, whose daughter Christina is now a Chi Omega at the University of Texas."

Doesn't Chi O use Greek titles for chapter officers? "Baselice" seems pretty similar to "basileus."

[pinapple]

Julie and Christina Baselice are real people and Christina is a Chi O at UT. Can't say I would be happy that my mother spewed her anxious behavior on the pages of Jezebel Magazine. To each their own.