Throwing without Knowing?

[robinseggblue]

From the public Facebook protest group (https://www.facebook.com/events/395733897270902)...which one of my Kappa friends invited me to:

Nationals got back to my email on clarification of their blog post

"The Fraternity has not banned hand symbols. However, the Fraternity has decided that we will no longer post any photos of members displaying this KKG hand sign on any official Fraternity communication, which includes our website and our official social media sites. While we encourage our members to help this trend fade away by not posting images with it on their chapter or individual websites or social media sites, we are not requiring members or chapters to remove the photos from their sites. Our objective when sharing the blog post was to let our members know why the Fraternity would no longer be posting images containing the hand sign and to help them understand the possible implications of doing so on their own sites.

Over the course of this fall, we have had several chapter incidents involving photos with members using the KKG hand sign that placed these chapters in jeopardy with their universities and caused significant negative implications within their campus communities. What to some members may be a gesture that symbolizes a sense of sisterhood and unity can often be perceived by others within the Fraternity and our larger publics as offensive.
Perception is reality, even if you disagree or don’t understand the perception. We believe it is valuable for our members to have some background of what that perception is, so they understand what they might be communicating to others when they use the KKG hand sign.

There are many ways to show your Kappa pride. And we welcome photos showcasing our pride - such as the key over the heart, the fleur-de-lis hand sign and the three people forming a K, K and G while standing. We simply are no longer posting photos with the KKG hand sign and are encouraging our members to consider doing the same."

So after all that about hands signs in general they're not even going to stop posting hand signs...just that one sign that they think could maybe be misconstrued.

These are apparently a-ok:



I'm not sure what the point of making that post was then. It would have been better handled quietly.

[33girl]

Okay, this is a get off my lawn post, but "the hand sign is an integral part of being a Kappa today"?? Seriously?

This just really hammers home how much this generation thinks it doesn't exist unless you can take a picture of it and put it on the internet for everyone to see.

On the other hand, if there really was a concrete problem with this, then KKG HQ need to say "ZZZ chapter at Basic Bia U were investigated by their local police because the local police saw their picture and thought they were part of a gang." Just saying "we had several chapter instances" and not naming names doesn't really cut it.