from the author of Pledged

[KDlady04]

I haven't read every page of this thread(all 23!) so I hope this isn't a repeat.

What I don't understand is why she chose a sorority at a Texas school(and she gave away that it was a Texas school maybe unintentionally, I paid attention to details) and then in another part had it stated that sororities in Texas are like "the extreme sport of greek life" or something to that extent. How then can she expect to be unbiased like she says she is?? I'm from a school in the Northeast so the only things I know about sororities in Texas would have to be adopted from that book but believe me I did NOT take any of that stuff she said seriously. Every chapter of every sorority is different, I don't know why she thinks that following 2 sororities at a big school in Texas is gonna represent all of us. And she shouldn't have said she was being unbiased because it's almost impossible to be unbiased about anything.

Also, I think it's ridiculous that she published some sororities secrets in their. I refused to read it.

And there is a thing where on her website you can read updates. I think you have to have the book in front of you to be able to look up a word on a certain page that serves as a password. Read it or don't, it's up to you.

It's unlikely that she'll ever come around, although Joan Ryan did it when she published a book in the mid 90's about gymnastics called Little Girls In Pretty Boxes and how it was nothing but a breeding ground for eating disorders and that the sport was "child abuse." She later republished the book with a new section in the back saying that gymnastics was no longer like that and basically said that the 1996 Olympians were healthy young women. Hmm if she could be convinced....who knows?