Alexandra Robbins on The View Today

[Taualumna]

I'm not really able to watch it today, but if anyone saw it, post comments here.

[dzsaigirl]

I am watching it now...I will post after it's done.

[adduncan]

Ditto

[Jill1228]

I gotta head to a dentist appt! I want details!

[winneythepooh7]

Yah, me too!

[Lady Pi Phi]

I'm at work. I wish I was a director so I could have a tv in my office.
Anyway, it's almost over right?

[Peaches-n-Cream]

She's on now.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

She's talking about black sororities and white sororities. "White sororities are more focused on their relationships with men."

Is anyone else watching this?

[ADPiShannan]

Basically she said she went undercover and how over 80% of sorority girls have eating disorders. How does she get that number, did she talk one on on with every girl in the house she went undercover in?
She also says they are racist and hazing still goes on and then she talked about two girls who she has in her book were raped and how one told her sorority and they told her not to press charges or anything cause it looks bad on the sorority. She acts like all of us would say the same about it.
Basically her thing is she generalizes on everything. Just cause she saw it with one girl she thinks it HAS to be everyone and just cause one chapter out of many sororities and many chapters hazes, then they all do. I think she really wasnt out to portray it in a good light at ALL. She didnt look into good things, but bad and she takes everything out of context too.
I bet the 4 girls she has in her book are kicking themselves that they ever associated with her.


Great almost all of the View are against sororities and keep saying that then at the end Meredith was like well it seems like sororities dont have any morals or standards.

What the heck does she know? Oh one thinks they arent right cause of favortism and exclusion Barbara says. Come off it lady. Press like this makes me mad cause they talk so bad about white sororities as they call them and noone on that show was in one to help balance all the bad press out.


Elisabeth was like fortunately there werent any on my campus where I went to school and I am so happy about that.

Star was a AKA but they said thats completely diff and that they arent racist they said

OMG this author needs a swift kick in the butt

[adduncan]

Cheers to Star Jones - standing up for GLOs. She dropped a hint to which D9 GLO she belongs to, but didn't say the letters. I wont' either, out of respect for the org, but she went toe-to-toe w/ Barbara Walters. Which leads me to......

Jeers to Barbara Walters. "I'm totally against sororities." That says it all right there. Closed mind, locked door, moving on to the next one.

The first interviewer (forget her name) pressed her for specific facts, but that last for about 60 seconds of this 5-6 minute feature. For the most part, her "findings" were accepted as gospel w/out challenge. Also picked on the the NPC orgs for wanting to maintain their privacy and prevent dishonest people from poking around their org. I wouldn't be suprised if the "rape coverup" Robbins mentioned was the V's. Funny how that Houston courtroom apology didn't factor into this discussion.

More negatives: reinforcing divisions between "historically white" and "historically black" GLOs. We have enough race relations problems in this country, we don't need any more wedges driven.

Big negative: Bawbwa Walters was all too happy to make sure each and every person in the audience got a free copy of the book.

I realized why talk features like this are a problem: the information is dropped quickly, then the topic shifts suddenly. This way, there is no time for the viewer to critically analyze or ask questions of what was presented. Education via advertising.

Bottom line, same script, different day. No real suprises.

ETA - this reminds me of a Life Magazine article I found on Ebay that was printed in the 1950s. It was a 4-page feature called "Sororities: A Growing Social Problem." Same criticisms of the NPC, same claims of "investigation., same "inside story" of the recruitment (then: rush) process. Ever since the NPC orgs were founded there has been hostility against them. I guess beating off the Philistines at the gates is going to be business as usual always.

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[33girl]

wtf? I thought Baba Wawa was an AEPhi.

[ADPiShannan]

Nope she said she is WAY against them and then goes into how they exclude and it promotes favortism and this that and the other.

Then Star was trying to say well you have a choice you can pick a good sorority that you like and has the same morals, but they took it out of context and didnt let her finish her thoughts.

[Lady Pi Phi]

That's really a shame.

But the way I see it, is that we women know what our orgs are like. Yes there are some bad apples, but we really are good organizations with wonderful, upstanding women as memebers and quite frankly do I want to have a women as a sister who is so narrow minded and unable to think for themseleves?

[Xylochick216]

I didn't see it today, but I'm hoping to see a rerun. I could have sworn that Joy is a Delta Zeta. I know she's at least Greek. Did she have anything to say?

As someone who has admired Barbara Walters all her life, I'm disappointed in her closed-mindedness. I'm hoping that she'll see the good side of Greek Life.

[ADPiShannan]

Joy did not say ONE thing during it. If she did I think she asked something, but she did not let on that she was in one at all. I would have thought she wasnt the way everyone acted. Star was the only one who said she was a AKA and how diff black sororities are she said.

Barbara also made me disappointed. I see her as very close minded now. Elisabeth said she didnt like them and was glad none were on her campus, and Meredith made the snide comment at the end that it seems all sororities have no morals or standards. Joy really didnt talk. I would think if she was in one, shed interject or theyd at least know she was in one and ask her, but they didnt.

Makes me dislike the View because they came into this not giving sororities a chance and using this book to further state how bad sororities are.

Edit. I just looked at a DZ site that said famous DZ's and Joys name is on there so I dont know. She didnt try to say anything nice about them at all. She didnt talk. I know if she did she may have gotten hit with comments from the others who are against them, but youd think shed say something to back something good.