Many sorority Web sites included online calendars stating the dates of women's engagements and wedding announcements. Even in their statements of sisterhood is included the importance of being there when your sister gets married. Excuse me, but I don't think that is something of the utmost importance in a woman's life -- who you are and what you accomplish matters more than the man you're connected with. You can blow out a candle when I win a Pulitzer -- that's important.
Aside from being clear as day the author of the piece does not 'believe' in marriage, or is someone who would say she 'does not see the point', this ignores the fact that
to the woman involved a marriage will be one of the most important and meaningful episodes that she might experience in her life.
Prior to that there have been family, friends etc; but with marriage comes a further pledge (for both parties) to make the rest of your life a union of two people. It is one of those times in a life when it stops being about 'the I and the me' and more about 'the us and the we'. Thus the importance attached to having ones friends around them as they face important steps in their lives.
Sororities are slowly becoming obsolete because other resources are available to us. Sisterhood isn't contingent on pledging -- lifelong friends can be found without having to pay dues for them.
Another flawed statement. If her supposition is that joining a student interest organization is a perfectly good alternative to make friends which therefore renders sororities obsolete; then per her logic, as those societies charge members to join/take part in them they too are as flawed as the groups she seeks to condemn.
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