UIUC Rush Story

[UWGPhiBalum]

Originally Posted by jwsteele

Granted, I am not in a sorority...I'm in a fraternity. And I've been a long-time lurker (with very few posts) on this site. But to be honest, most of the women posting in this thread are coming off very negatively. Yes, she may have said some things that were shallow. However, the vibe that people outside this conversation would get from reading your responses is that a bunch of sophisticated sorority women (many of them far older than the original poster) are sitting on the edges of their seats hoping that she gets cut and is in tears. That is not endearing at all to sororities in general and frankly comes off as just as petty as the poster's original comments. There is a difference between wanting a PNM to realize that houses may have other strengths besides physical appearance. That's great. But the way it is coming off in text, despite intentions, is that you are excited and hoping she gets her feelings hurt (not to mention a slight undertone of "pretty chapters aren't as good as non-pretty chapters at sisterhood, etc" which is just as unfounded as "ugly chapters aren't as good"). If you really care about how all groups are perceived then maybe you should step back and realize how nasty some of your responses sound, not only to non-Greeks but also to Greeks that are not active members of GreekChat. I'm not saying this for everybody, because many have expressed their opinions in a very mature way. Some of you, however, have not and in my book that is just as shallow and catty (even more so, in some ways) then LittleMissVixen's original post.

Flame away.

Amen.