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Originally posted by bethany1982
Some people are too damn touchy.
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Without a doubt. And, of course, some people are too damn insensitive.
But that really is quite beside the point. If we are really living up to the values that our fraternities and sororities stand for, then if we offend someone, we apologize and try not to do it again. It doesn't matter a whit if we think they were being oversensitive or not. We are walking and talking advertisements for our respective GLOs, and our own groups and the Greek system as a whole will be judged, rightly or wrongly, by the behavior of individual Greeks.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have fun. Of course we should! But if you wouldn't want to read about your party theme in a school newspaper editorial, then you probably need to pick a different theme.
If said it before, and I'll say it again. Simply put, a gentleman (or a lady) never makes fun of, belittles or seeks to offend other people. Never. Period. If he does so unintentionally, he apologizes and tries to avoid doing it again -- whether he thinks the offended party is overreacting or not -- because a gentleman puts the feelings of others before his own feelings.
Isn't that is part of what our fraternities and sororities try to teach us? If we don't take our own values seriously, why should we expect non-Greeks to take them -- or us -- seriously?
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