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Originally Posted by DrPhil
You can probably start with how recruitment itself is frivolous and it's "just a sorority." Calling something "just" an anything potentially goes beyond your personal opinion and experience with it. By the way, GLO membership is not just an individual experience.
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Once again, and again, and again, and again, there are many posts authored by myself that explain my experiences and why I think my organization and GLO's in general are both important and helfpul to their members. I absolutely have MY OWN, INDIVIDUAL experience with my organization. I share my ritual with thousands of other women, but what I learned from my chapter and the ways in which it effected my life are mine and my own. The same goes for you and all other Greeks. I absolutely do not have to think or feel exactly like every other member of my organization, nor do they have to have the same experiences and feelings as I when it comes to the letters we share.
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Originally Posted by Kappamd
Please, it's been pointed out to you already. I couldn't say it any more eloquently than agzg did. |
The only thing agzg has repeated that I
actually typed is that I said it's "just a sorority". Were agzg to read any of the post other than that line, any of the posts before it, or any of the posts after it, she would understand that she has taken the line out of context and gotten worked up over something that never happened.
So, as
you say, "keep it cute or put it on mute".
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Originally Posted by Loyally Kappa
Oh. So you went back to check?
I could easily have accused you of doing so by taking your response out of context ... hmmm???
And if you really did go back to check, surely you noticed that I did not respond at all and just blew you off. Please respect ME for that.
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I took nothing out of context.
I do not see how your lack of response to that particular post is relevant, as you have brought it up again yourself and made an issue of it.
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Now, everyone can continue this if they'd like, but there is no argument here. I agree that sororities and fraternities are helpful to members and individuals that they help. I agree that they are important to most of the members, and I have never once said anyone else is supposed to share my experiences. This entire fit is in response to one line, taken out of context, and is based on an argument with something that no one in this thread, including myself, actually appears to believe. As I have said so many times now, I very much love my organization, but it is a sorority. I fulfill all my duties as an alum and as a collegian I tried to always at least meet the minimum but reach the maximum when it came to participation. I have never once in my life considered it "silly", and had I done so I surely wouldn't have invested so much time in it, so much money, etc. I do find recruitment "frivolous" and "silly" and do not care if someone does not agree. That's FINE. I do truly believe it to be a silly process. No, I can't think of a better way to do it. But it is akin to speed dating and though sometimes we find amazing matches that way, we are also forced to make hurried judgments based on just the very outer surface of a person. Their resume, their looks, their first impressions.
My sorority does not come before my family, my education, and my career.
And that is ok. If someone else puts it anywhere else in that list...first, second, third, fifth...
that is ok. It doesn't cheapen or elevate any other member's experience. And again, in terms of "it's just a sorority"...as I've said before...PNM's in no way need to think it is the end of the world if they don't join one for whatever reason, or if they don't join the one they thought they wanted the most. There are, obviously, many organizations outside of the Greek world that can also be fulfilling AND fun.
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