Spring Break Mistake?

[SWTXBelle]

I went to the website, and looked under sororities.Your group wasn't listed there. If they are listed elsewhere, fine, but spare me the "do your research". I did - and drew the obvious conclusion. If you are indeed recognized, well then good for you. You have a faculty advisor and turned in paperwork.

I'll try to spell it out so you can understand - the point is not that a person with a tattoo should be cut. The point is that in a situation where you have a limited amount of time to make an impression you do not want something as insignificant as a tattoo to overshadow your personality. I've got sisters (sorority and biological) with tattoos, piercings and funky hairstyles. There are actually many threads here about sorority tattoos - do your research before you post.
Given the smug, self-satisfied nature of your posts (as though your little copy-cat group could teach GLOs with over 100 years of history and literally millions of sisters anything about sisterhood!) it isn't a generational thing - it's a maturity thing. Grow up.

[XiButterfly]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I went to the website, and looked under sororities.Your group wasn't listed there. If they are listed elsewhere, fine, but spare me the "do your research". I did - and drew the obvious conclusion. If you are indeed recognized, well then good for you. You have a faculty advisor and turned in paperwork.

I'll try to spell it out so you can understand - the point is not that a person with a tattoo should be cut. The point is that in a situation where you have a limited amount of time to make an impression you do not want something as insignificant as a tattoo to overshadow your personality. I've got sisters (sorority and biological) with tattoos, piercings and funky hairstyles. There are actually many threads here about sorority tattoos - do your research before you post.
Given the smug, self-satisfied nature of your posts (as though your little copy-cat group could teach GLOs with over 100 years of history and literally millions of sisters anything about sisterhood!) it isn't a generational thing - it's a maturity thing. Grow up.

Well the fact that you seem to feel strongly about it suggests otherwise and hoestly you attacking me and my sorority isn't really mature so I don't think you really stand in any position to tell anyone to grow up....period.

What website did you go to? That was the cal greek one and the only one I know of so obviously you didn't try that hard. You just want to find some reason to try to insult me.

I've said lets agree to disagree about two or three posts ago and you just cannot seem to drop anything and let it go.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by XiButterfly

Well the fact that you seem to feel strongly about it suggests otherwise and hoestly(SIC) you attacking me and my sorority isn't really mature so I don't think you really stand in any position to tell anyone to grow up....period.

What website did you go to? That was the cal greek one and the only one I know of so obviously you didn't try that hard. You just want to find some reason to try to insult me.

I've said lets agree to disagree about two or three posts ago and you just cannot seem to drop anything and let it go.

http://www.calgreeks.com/mcgc.html is where I had looked for your group. Sorry that I missed it in another listing.



Don't flatter yourself - really. Your first post was a judgemental, smug attack on those had given the op good advice. What I feel strongly about is misrepresenting what I and many of my fellow long-established GCers have written here. I don't want to find a reason to insult you - but I will call you, and any one else, to task for faulty reasoning and poor logic. (Alas, all those years of teaching Rhetoric have warped me.)As you may have noticed, we've all heard the "We're all different - like everyone else!" thing so much that we've become somewhat amused by it.

I stated several posts ago that YOU would be unable to resist coming back and once again making this all about you. So I ask you - was I right or wrong?

If you want to let it go, then do. No one is forcing you to come back and try and justify yourself. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU.

It should be, and I want to make it about, enabling the op to have a successful recruitment at an SEC school. You have no experience or insight in that arena, so really can't advise her.

If the most important thing about her is indeed her tattoo, then she should by no means hide it. But if perhaps it is a small part of who and what she is, then by covering it she allows her personality and other character traits to be the focus.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

If the most important thing about her is indeed her tattoo, then she should by no means hide it. But if perhaps it is a small part of who and what she is, then by covering it she allows her personality and other character traits to be the focus.

Best piece of advice in this thread.

[XiButterfly]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

http://www.calgreeks.com/mcgc.html is where I had looked for your group. Sorry that I missed it in another listing.



Don't flatter yourself - really. Your first post was a judgemental, smug attack on those had given the op good advice. What I feel strongly about is misrepresenting what I and many of my fellow long-established GCers have written here. I don't want to find a reason to insult you - but I will call you, and any one else, to task for faulty reasoning and poor logic. (Alas, all those years of teaching Rhetoric have warped me.)As you may have noticed, we've all heard the "We're all different - like everyone else!" thing so much that we've become somewhat amused by it.

I stated several posts ago that YOU would be unable to resist coming back and once again making this all about you. So I ask you - was I right or wrong?

If you want to let it go, then do. No one is forcing you to come back and try and justify yourself. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU.

It should be, and I want to make it about, enabling the op to have a successful recruitment at an SEC school. You have no experience or insight in that arena, so really can't advise her.

If the most important thing about her is indeed her tattoo, then she should by no means hide it. But if perhaps it is a small part of who and what she is, then by covering it she allows her personality and other character traits to be the focus.

The link I gave was a direct link from the berkeley website.....not sure how you could miss it. Plus, that site doesn't have a single MC sorority listed and the list is stated as "coming soon." I'm not sure how that served as "proof" we're not backed by the university.

It was never my intent of giving off my "We're all different - like everyone else!" attitude. I merely stated I found it sad that a tattoo would hold her back in recruitment. There's more to people than there tattoos or even their appearance....which was the main point I was trying get across. That is bigger than me and I'm not too sure why you would think that point would be "all about me." I'm putting in my two cents and I do have friends who are in and/or were in the greek system at SEC schools so I do have some knowledge from their stories of recruitment. Some chapters will not be bothered by visable tattoos and some will not take the time to talk to you if they see it. It sucks but that's life.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by XiButterfly

It sucks but that's life.

...which is basically the point we were making all along.

[LionTamer]

When I read "spring break mistake", I was relieved that it was only a tatoo.

I remember many years ago a tiny, sweet, painfully shy, quiet girl from one of the "good" sororities at Penn State won a wet t-shirt contest during spring break in Florida. Needless to say, this did NOT go over well with her standards board, and there was a lot of rumors that they were going to disaffiliate her.

You can cover a tattoo, but the Girls Gone Wild tapes circulate forever....

[SWTXBelle]

I've told this story elsewhere, but when she was a pledge my sister won a spring break wet t-shirt contest. When pulled before standards, she said "But I won! I beat a Chi Omega!"

[33girl]

Originally Posted by LionTamer

When I read "spring break mistake", I was relieved that it was only a tatoo.

I remember many years ago a tiny, sweet, painfully shy, quiet girl from one of the "good" sororities at Penn State won a wet t-shirt contest during spring break in Florida. Needless to say, this did NOT go over well with her standards board, and there was a lot of rumors that they were going to disaffiliate her.

You can cover a tattoo, but the Girls Gone Wild tapes circulate forever....

I was always amused by the concept of people who did things they shouldn't do on spring break and thought they wouldn't get caught. Hey ding dong, if you booked the trip through a travel agency on campus, chances are, other people did too. Chances are they're going to be on the same bus/plane and in the same hotel. And not everyone is going to keep things on the down low.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by XiButterfly

Well the fact that you seem to feel strongly about it suggests otherwise and hoestly you attacking me and my sorority isn't really mature so I don't think you really stand in any position to tell anyone to grow up....period.

What website did you go to? That was the cal greek one and the only one I know of so obviously you didn't try that hard. You just want to find some reason to try to insult me.

I've said lets agree to disagree about two or three posts ago and you just cannot seem to drop anything and let it go.

What I'm really curious about is why a tattoo or lip ring is the "real you".

I've never thought to define myself by my accessories and clothes. But each to his own I guess.