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Originally posted by XOMichelle
Clearly you haven't spent any time on the unpopular side of the social spectrum.
I've seen many many people take stereotypes and run, and some people will think, wow those people who did this to them are really awful, but you can bet your bottom dollar some people will think, "gee they must be as bad as everyone says they are." Or "When I rush there's no way in hell I'm going to be a ___."
How do I know? Well! I'm glad you asked. People have teased my chapter for being large (ahem! at 5'6" and 130 lbs, I am NOT large!), and I heard alomst everyday, "you're a Chi O? You're not fat!" With astonishment. When you get that kind of treatment, people don't take the time to find out who you are and say, hey the XYZ's are really nice people, despite not having an entire chapter of barbie dolls. People run with what they hear, and if they see one nanogram of evidece for a sterotype, you are stuck with it (and the worst ones are generally in the greek system!). Stuff like this, which is above and beyond anything I have ever seen, is very harsh on any group, in addition to not supporting the ideals of our orgs.
I don't want to make this bad event worse, but this is why is sucks so much.
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I second that emotion...people do not take time out to really get to know the ladies of the group that is teased or talked about. Its like, they see a member of XYZ and automatically think, OMG she's a b**ch! because of what some person said about a specific sister or the whole group. My group didn't have banners but "someone" came on our guestbook (which is often frequented) and signed the book saying that they found a flier saying my sorority was an easy lay(????-honestly how many of those types of fliers have you found on your campus????) and all that. I happened to be wearing my letters that day and I automatically thought, "who read that and saw me with my letters on?" Its not the first time but I personally am not taking it sitting down-not anymore at least.
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