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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Because weird or freak isn't just as much of an "identity?"
A heavy girl no more makes her entire chapter seem heavy than my pledge sister made our chapter all "freaks." (A term I use here with extreme disgust)
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Because partial armlessness isn't common enough for a group to worry about it becoming a group identity is what I actually meant.
I apologize if my joking about "freak show" was offensive in the earlier context. Another poster said something about a member being so unattractive as to turn off all the PNM who saw her, and I had a hard time imaging exactly what she meant.
I may be wrong, but I don't think the appearance related crap is ever really about any one member. One girl won't make a chapter "the fat chapter" anyway. But a chapter who is under pressure from nationals to get their numbers up is struggling with image problems generally most likely; and in an image driven recruitment, part of the way to address that might seem to be to make sisters who fit the stereotype less visible.
But again, I've already said that I wouldn't handle it by hiding members during rush.
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