Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

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[quote=SkiingSister;1476687]WE LIVE IN AN OVERWEIGHT SOCIETY[quote]

Touché.

Originally Posted by adpiucf

Secondly, the target demographic for the majority of undergraduate sororities are 17-22 year old women from middle class-upper middle class households. Go out and talk to a teenage girl for a few hours. It will be a conversation punctuated with "likes," "ums," rampant text messaging, a discussion about the mall, cute boys in her class, the popular girls, "Do I look fat in this?", her friends, her fears, and more "likes," "ums" and rampant text messaging.

Her peers influence her music tastes, clothing preferences, how she styles her hair and her overall body image. Teenaged girls are obsessed with body image. They tune out their parents, teachers and other adults who tell them to be themselves and to judge people for being "beautiful on the inside."

Have you ever tried to reason with an 18-year old? Have you been successful un-brainwashing her from the stereotypes she sees in people like Paris Hilton, Britney, Lindsay? Teens emulate what's popular and shun what's not.

I agree recruitment should be about picking the people who are "beautiful" inside, and the women's parents, sorority national leaders, etc., should guide them to making good decisions. And they do the best they can. But at the end of the day, we're still dealing with teen aged girls.

SEC recruitment is superficial. It's competitive. The SEC is ok with that. I'm ok with that. Got it? Can we please move on from this topic? I feel like we're all talking in circles.

I guess I was never really a teenaged girl because I sure as hell didn't fit what you described. Self centered, yeah. Obnoxious sometimes, yeah. Pretending my life is Mean Girls? Hell no.

I don't understand why anyone is ok with the way things are. I will never understand why no one will raise a finger and change it. As much as I've whined about Pledged...this is making me start to see the light.

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

Kappa Delta joined the Real Beauty Campaign with Dove. Maybe that is why I am taking the angle I am taking with reference to this situation; however, whatever it is, I still think singling your sisters out for being "fat" is cruel and callous. And I hope this thread doesn't die--it is pretty obvious from the amount of replies that this is a real issue in the Greek "world" and in our society at large. It's good that we are having a dialogue about it.

Thank goodness for you.

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

And about the Real Beauty campaign, it's kind of amusing to see them present women who wouldn't even seem overweight (or maybe even imperfect) if they were wearing clothes as representations of how much they value different standards of beauty.

At least there is someone out there attempting to make a change. I don't see the need to downplay someone trying to help society PROGRESS socially.