How protective are you of your letters?

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
I mean this in the least disrespectful way possible:

This paragraph doesn't make sense.

I can usually find at least some logic in a viewpoint that I disagree with. With your viewpoint I can find none.

That's fine, because your viewpoint as expressed in the other thread makes no sense to me. And that's fine -- different strokes for different folks.

I don't care if people wear a University of Wisconsin sweatshirt even though they don't go to this school and thus don't understand the experience I've had. Nobody cares if I wear my high school track pants even though I'm not on the track team anymore. Why should I treat my sorority shirts any differently?

If a fraternity member wears a party shirt with my letters on it because he enjoyed the party and enjoyed spending time with the girls in my chapter, I'm not going to argue with it. If a pledge wants to wear the letters because she is showing her commitment to the organization, good for her. And if a former member wants to wear the letters because she still respects the sorority but had to leave because of unrelated personal issues, I've got no problem with it. As I said in the other thread, if you are treating the letters with the respect they deserve, I don't care if you're a member or not. And conversely, if you AREN'T treating the letters with the respect they deserve -- I don't care if you're a member or not, you shouldn't be wearing them. To me, the latter is a much much much bigger problem than the former. I've never seen a non-member wearing letters to cause problems, but I've seen many members of all organizations who wear their letters while behaving ridiculously. Why don't we work on that before we attack the people who ARE treating our letters with respect?

If we stopped putting so much emphasis on the damn tee shirts, maybe we'd have fewer members who are just in it for the tee shirts . . . ?