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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
Can you give examples of what you mean by "rejection of someone based on physical appearance" within the group?
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People acknowledging that "image matters in recruitment in the SEC" in any form, even the ones that you kind of said were alright as far as matching people with what they were best at, translates to blaming the fat people, for example.
So unless you can give examples of people being singled out for appearance at chapters at non-competitive recruitments, it's hard to know what you are really talking about.
Do you mean dress check? Or do you mean having a concrete example of a young woman being told to stay away from recruitment at a strong chapter at a non-competitive school, and you know personally that her only "weakness" was appearance?
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I'm not referring to dress check, and I fail to see how assigning people to duties they are best at translates into blaming the 'fat people'. I don't see where that even applies. That is a completely different issue. There is difference between showing everyone at there best and telling people they aren't fit too be seen at all because they are overweight.
"rejection of someone based on physical appearance" referred to the current discussion of asking the overweight person to stay away. I broadened it a little to include that person that also may be asked to stay away because of they aren't considered pretty enough, whatever.
If you want a specific example to prove that it happens - I've known it to happen at a "non-competitive" campus firsthand. A member from a chapter that was doing well,made quota every fall, had high GPA etc was asked to 'stay in the kitchen'. She had a great personality, carried herself well, was well liked by her sisters - but was very overweight in a chapter that did not have other overweight members. She was told that she should not come out of the kitchen during the parties. She knew members of the AOII chapter I was working with and they were shocked that anyone would treat a sister that way (as was I).
It was not a competitive campus, an SEC campus or even a very greek campus - but it still happened all the same.
Whether the OP was telling of a real situation or making something up to stir up discussion doesn't matter. It happens - if it didn't people wouldn't be going to so much trouble to justify it. I happen to not agree with it, others think it is fine. To each their own.