Pledged: The Movie

[jennie3576]

i've just started reading the book, and i've gotten to October so far. the thing that bothers me most about everything in the book is the fact that they way she writes it, it seems like the things that happen (like pre-gaming) only happen with Greeks. What? Non-Greeks don't pregame? Non-Greeks don't strive to be thin and perfect and have the perfect girlfriends? Non-Greeks don't sneak boys/girls into their dorms/apartments, etc.? It really makes me angry. And the fact that parents think these are accurate descriptions is even worse.

[MysticCat]

I predict a very special Lifetime, Television for Women, event:

"Pledged: Can You Keep a Secret" -- the true story based on the bestseller by Alexandra Robbins.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by IAmMysticCat

I predict a very special Lifetime, Television for Women, event:

"Pledged: Can You Keep a Secret" -- the true story based on the bestseller by Alexandra Robbins.

They could show it as a double feature with "Dying to Belong" that one with Six from Blossom.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

They could show it as a double feature with "Dying to Belong" that one with Six from Blossom.

Oooo. Oooo.

Even better than "Pledged: Can You Keep a Secret" -- "Pledged: Dying to Tell."

Then it really could work as a double feature.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by IAmMysticCat

Oooo. Oooo.

Did you really? No, there's something wrong with my eyes.

Learning from MysticCat Jr, are we? How's he doing, haven't had any good stories about him lately. Mariana walked into her brother's room yesterday morning, looked over the side of the bassinet and said "Hey, lil buddy!". Good stuff.

[BetteDavisEyes]

Don't forget that they need a group of girls willing to get their fat circled and girls who are going to have the purging contests in the bathrooms. Plus they need an older man to play the plumber who comes in & unclogs the pipes since they are clogged up with vomit.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Did you really? No, there's something wrong with my eyes.

Maybe MysticCat Jr. has been giving me "Welcome Back, Kotter" Flashbacks. Just call him "Little Arnie Horshack."

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Maybe MysticCat Jr. has been giving me "Welcome Back, Kotter" Flashbacks. Just call him "Little Arnie Horshack."

Hey you're back!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

They could show it as a double feature with "Dying to Belong" that one with Six from Blossom.

That movie should be retitled "Dying To Punch Hilary Swank in the Horse Face."

[REE1993]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

They could show it as a double feature with "Dying to Belong" that one with Six from Blossom.

OMG that movie made me laugh! I remember the chick from Scrubs was in it. The funniest part of the movie was when they had to eat the eggshells. Wouldn't they have smelled the eggs and felt that they were not glass before putting it their mouths?

Oh and the circling the fat thing... that girl did have a big booty.

I wonder if oscar winner Hillary Swank puts the movie on her resume. If I remember correctly, didn't she also do a movie where she was anorexic and she wore overalls all the time?

[JWithers]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

They could show it as a double feature with "Dying to Belong" that one with Six from Blossom.

Ooooooo, I love that movie. IS that the one where they had to stand on the table and actives drew on them with magic markers to point out their physical flaws???

I am a cheesy "lifetime" movie addict.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by jennie3576

i've just started reading the book, and i've gotten to October so far. the thing that bothers me most about everything in the book is the fact that they way she writes it, it seems like the things that happen (like pre-gaming) only happen with Greeks. What? Non-Greeks don't pregame? Non-Greeks don't strive to be thin and perfect and have the perfect girlfriends? Non-Greeks don't sneak boys/girls into their dorms/apartments, etc.? It really makes me angry. And the fact that parents think these are accurate descriptions is even worse.

Goes back to the fact that the girl isn't a journalist...she's an opportunist. I'm not buying that she had this burning passion to find out about greek life for the good of the world...she sat down and found something likely to give her sensational stories that she could mass market and viola. I'd give it to her for being a good money maker if she didn't try to act like this is a serious piece of work.

Here's the thing...I have no doubt the stuff she writes about goes on. But I do know that honest to effin' god I've never seen massive eating disorders (and this is going for all five NPCs and the three NPHCs), there is no drug room, no one gets hazed, and being a slut isn't glorified by anyone, much less the girls. A real journalist would have done the actual research. This isn't the only campus that's so calm...I know mass vomiting and whoring out make interesting stories, but it doesn't represent the whole. Fact. And I am TIRED of defending the greeks here because she chose NOT to balance herself (because inserting the random sentence saying "Well not EVERYONE does this" does not equal balance).

[tld221]

Originally Posted by banditone

you think it'll be better then Going Greek?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0263386/

Originally Posted by ta kala

My sisters and I love that movie! We know it's extremely stereotypical and wrong in many ways, but there are also some pretty funny parts, too.

co-sign : its horribly off but i got a good laugh out of this movie too.

[I_Heart_Sigma]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

Goes back to the fact that the girl isn't a journalist...she's an opportunist. I'm not buying that she had this burning passion to find out about greek life for the good of the world...she sat down and found something likely to give her sensational stories that she could mass market and viola.

I agree with you.

When I read this book it hurt me, not as a sorority girl, but as a journalism major. I spent most of the time angry at her not because she was giving away "secrets" or calling sorority girls sluts, but because in doing this she was giving up all claim of being a journalist. The first thing they told me in Writing for the Media was that exposes are good, and it's up to us (Journalists) to expose the truth, but that we had to respect our subjects and that no one would ever be willing to give us an interview if we had the reputation of slandering or mocking them. This is just what she does, and I feel bad for the girls she followed, because they are the only ones who really should be hurt by this.

People who take this book as the honest and complete truth are usually people who wanted to think bad things about Greeks in the first place. The movie will prbably be the same.... though one of my sisters won't go to pancake feeds anymore because of this book

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by I_Heart_Sigma

I agree with you.

When I read this book it hurt me, not as a sorority girl, but as a journalism major. I spent most of the time angry at her not because she was giving away "secrets" or calling sorority girls sluts, but because in doing this she was giving up all claim of being a journalist. The first thing they told me in Writing for the Media was that exposes are good, and it's up to us (Journalists) to expose the truth, but that we had to respect our subjects and that no one would ever be willing to give us an interview if we had the reputation of slandering or mocking them. This is just what she does, and I feel bad for the girls she followed, because they are the only ones who really should be hurt by this.

People who take this book as the honest and complete truth are usually people who wanted to think bad things about Greeks in the first place. The movie will prbably be the same.... though one of my sisters won't go to pancake feeds anymore because of this book

Well said. I do think it reflects badly on honest journalists out there because they DO exist. She's just not one of them. Honestly I don't have a problem with people making money off a subject (as long as they aren't guilty of slandering their subjects...and as far as we know, she isn't) and writing something that is, to anyone with any first hand experience, very biased and very sensationalized. Props to them for making more money than I ever will. BUT I firmly believe that if you decide to claim your account is 100% truthful or 100% unbiased...and you claim that it is JOURNALISM then it should be. I wouldn't be disgusted with her at all if she had been honest...and published the book as what it is: sensationalism.

And of course, the cute wrap up with "advice" to people who have been doing this their whole lives was amusing. There is a place in the world for outside advice...every organization needs it. BUT it should be better researched than hers was. There were about a million problems with her overly simplistic "solutions"...and why she thinks that she is the first person to come up with them I can't imagine. She could have left all of that out.