It was all Greek to me....

[Senusret I]

My experience in a historically black sorority left me wondering how fun and academics turned into the blind leading the blind.

http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/0...eek-to-me.html

[33girl]

If I'm reading this wrong tell me, but it sounds like she's saying part of the reason her mom's experience was great and hers was not was that her mom went to a HBCU and she did not.

[Senusret I]

I didn't get that from the article. Granted, I skimmed around because I personally was getting a little tired of her whining.

She had a reason to her opinions, no doubt. But I typically don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people that didn't have it in their heart in the first place.

I'm sorry she was hazed.

[fantASTic]

This is very interesting, and against anything I've heard online about BGLOs.

[DSTCHAOS]

I haven't read the article yet.

I just wanted to say that I thought Senusret I was saying that his "experience in a historically black sorority...."

I was prepared to ask all sorts of WTFs.

[DSTRen13]

Hm. So, basically, due to peer pressure and feeling lonely, she joined a chapter where she felt all the members were dumb and skanky, and as a result she feels that all D9 orgs are devolving into pointless gangs on college campuses and that's why she refuses to join a grad chapter even though she thinks they're still okay? HUH?!?

[DSTCHAOS]

I skimmed it enough to get the point.

I'm not interested in her feelings enough to read it word-for-word.

It's just another hazing, immaturity, superficiality, and unfocused on academics and community relevance blog. Good for her. I hope her chapter and the Zeta nhq tell her to GO TO HELL if she ever has a change of heart.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by DSTRen13

Hm. So, basically, due to peer pressure and feeling lonely, she joined a chapter where she felt all the members were dumb and skanky, and as a result she feels that all D9 orgs are devolving into pointless gangs on college campuses and that's why she refuses to join a grad chapter even though she thinks they're still okay? HUH?!?

I was tempted to respond to the comments on there. I'll "vent" here.


Her experiences are her experiences. She needed to vent so good for her.

The problem is with people acting like their experiences translate to some universal truth. She's in the comments section talking about she tells people "DO NOT PLEDGE."

While I appreciate what BGLOs do at the undergraduate and graduate levels, I don't walk around pretending that BGLOs and the BGLO experience are for everyone. It's just like anything else in the world--even CHURCH. Everyone won't have a positive experience because there are thousands of PEOPLE involved worldwide so we can't possibly filter out the negative.

So I think it's dumb when people take their bad experience and act like their bad experience is for everyone. BGLOdom goes against your personality, your interpretation of what God wants, or whatever else...OKAY...we get it!!!!

[Little32]

Read it, and mostly agree with everyone here. Her experience is her experience. She went into for the wrong reasons and it seems as though she was already prepared to dislike it before she even crossed.

I was talking with a soror the other day. She was telling me about her experience, how she pledged because they wanted her too, not because she wanted to. Her story was similar. After college, she went inactive because, to use her words, "I was a total snob about it."

Years later, she reactivated and said that she now understands the influence and positive impact that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. makes because of the women who are in our organization.

Every organization has these members, women or men who join for the wrong reasons or don't "have it in their heart" so to speak. However, the difference between this woman and my soror is that my soror came to realize her own culpability in her disillusionment and that she had been wrong in her initial assessment of the value of our organization and its work. I don't guess the author of this article has reached that level of maturity yet.

I say all of this to say that her taking her singular experience and extrapolating from it claims about the whole is, well, dumb. I am sorry that she was hazed too. The end.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If I'm reading this wrong tell me, but it sounds like she's saying part of the reason her mom's experience was great and hers was not was that her mom went to a HBCU and she did not.

I think it's less that her mom went to an HBCU and more that her mom went to a chapter that was closely supervised by grad and adult members...

I actually thought this was an interesting article. The woman does recognize the importance and value of BGLOs, but is more just bemoaning that her own experience wasn't that great. I don't actually think it's such a negative article toward BGLOs as a whole.

[Little32]

^^But she does, at several points, imply that all contemporary BGLO experiences are like hers; and the responses and her responses to the responses all imply that as well.

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

My experience in a historically black sorority left me wondering how fun and academics turned into the blind leading the blind.

http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/0...eek-to-me.html

Is she really a Zeta because she believes that Eleanor Roosevelt is a member?!

She should just turn in her pearls and begone!

[Little32]

^^Missed that. Where did she say it?

[Senusret I]

The confused lot I dealt with on a regular basis could not be the same Zetas who encouraged First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to join.

Like paragraph 26 or so.

[jitterbug13]

Originally Posted by mccoyred

Is she really a Zeta because she believes that Eleanor Roosevelt is a member?!

She should just turn in her pearls and begone!

Soror, we are >>>here<<. I thought I was the only one who saw that. She must have missed the honorary members section.

Cosign with Little32.