Letter to Amy Dickinson ("Ask Amy")

[littleowl33]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I'm just wondering if anyone else saw the letter in today's "Ask Amy" about fraternities and sororities (the third letter). Basically, it was a screed on how terrible sororities (and fraternities) have become, concluding with "Greek = bad rap." (He was responding to Amy's advice to a grandmother who wanted her granddaughter to pledge a sorority, but the granddaughter didn't want to because on her campus the Greek system had a "bad name.") I thought her response to the guy, while short, was good. I was sorry for his fraternity that he put his own letters in his signature.

For reference, the letter from the grandmother that this guy was referring to is here.

Huh. That guy sounds very bitter and his letter is downright nasty. Why on earth would he have included his affiliation?? It doesn't sound like it's something he's at all proud of.

Off-topic, but MysticCat, I love your signature! My mom has an old tape of those SNL commercials and my sister and I just loved them. I'd kind of forgotten about them, actually.

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Sounded like he has a grudge against that fraternity and wanted to paint them in a bad light to me....

Anywho, I loved this part of her reply:
"and have never wanted to be in a group that would have me as a member."