Kamryn, thank you for your reply and I totally agree with you. Just had to speak my mind girl. Plus she wants to know who i was talking about so..... here goes.
I thought that I as clear in my initial post but I must have been mistaken. So maybe I should reconstruct my statement so that ALL can understand.
Ladies of Alpha kappa Alpha, sisterfriends I sincerely apologize for my lack of clarity. I'll restate my position
I was refering to sisterfriends who have such outstanding courage over the net that they would continuously disrespect the members of the organization thorugh posts and childish nitpicking. Sometimes this is due to le lack of ignorance concerning protocol ( hence the pearls of wisdom). Or maybe its due to the lack something better to do with one's time. Maybe all of the above. None the less it is these one's who will go out of their way to hide their identity. WHY???
Maybe they to use the board to get something off of their chest concerning the organization; using it as a vehicle to take out thier aggression with maybe the members of the org. on their OWN campus on unsepecting individuals. Maybe they use the board as a way to get questions asnswered that they are afraid to ask the memember of the organization on their own campus. OR maybe, and this one is just a hunch, some of these indiviuals have such unfufilling lives that allow for time to to argue pointlessly on a message board. I don't know. I'm not in a position to judge. Whatever the case may be, the fact of the matter is, why make such bold comments and then get mad when a member says something that you can't handle or weren't quite prepared for? Why even argue in the first place???
Don't think that cattieness is going to make them secretly like you any more. Showing them that you can stand up for yourself on a message board is not going to get you brownie points for personality. The vast majority of these women are not even a part of the chapter located in your area, so belittling them or trying to impress them by "fighting" back will accomplish nothing. Cause they will STILL have their letters and your feelings WILL still be hurt. I've seen it happen so many times.
You are wasting precious time and energy that could be put towards something else like RESEARCHING the organization on your own. Instead of pointless bickering about something you THINK you know.
This is not saying that I always agree with some of the methods employed to some members chew out the sisterfriends or others. But at the end of the day, internet fighting is just childish and won't get a person any futher on their pursuit to Alpha kappa Alpha. Actually,a lot of the times, it has been a huge set back because individuals who THOUGHT they were hiding their identities would end up letting something slip and eventually got put on blast anyway. Now what did that accomplish. Ya know?
The fact of the matter is, you first have to become a WOMAN before you can become a woman of Alpha Kappa Alpha. And sometimes as women, we need to humble ourselves and gracefully bow out. And learn to heed the advice given us. Because I've found that silently heeding the advice given, goes a lot futher than trying to change the logic behind it. Get where I'm coming from???
I apologize for the legnth. Hope that cleared up any questions.
Lemme say this again......
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