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I thought the "value" of recruitment stories was the informational value that they had for young women who were about to rush. I read some stories that were honest, interesting (except I admit for the three pages of Good Lucks) and informative. Then came what I term the "outing" (of the school, the sororities in question) and the "don't tell anything because you will be found out." The threads started to become more and more pc...and useless for a young woman trying to decode recruitment.
I think that the fantasy threads are a result of the two factions: future fiction writers and super sleuths who need to point out the error of their ways. And as someone who wrote, two or three years ago, a "brutally honest" story about rush in the time of anti semitism, feel free not to read it. But shall we mull over the possibilities of this whole section: Posting realtime truth (as the pnm sees it) the pnm is threatened with identity exposure and flamed. Post a thread right afterward and you are under scrutiny for the truthfulness if everything was perfect. (and rightly so) Post it years later, with a point (or without) and people are bored and/or suspicious.
Has anyone noticed that in the old days at the end of the thread the writer would reveal the school and sometimes even the key to the code of names? And life as we knew it went on.
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