It was all Greek to me....

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by DSTRen13

So, if we're going to make this some sort of NPHC versus NPC thing, maybe someone could tell me ... would NPC members *really* be okay with, for example, some random blogger getting on the Internet and saying that she had been a Phi Mu, that the sisters in her chapter (giving enough details to identify said chapter) had been more crude and less intelligent than herself, and going on about how she had been hazed and hadn't ever really wanted to pledge in the first place, then goes on to encourage everyone to avoid the NPC altogether?

I just don't get it, but if that really would be fine with you all, okay.

Uh, I'll zoom out of my lane just long enough to give a resounding NO to your question above. I certainly can't speak for every NPC member, but I'd be chapped. Especially with how specific she was using the org's name, where she went to school, etc. Unlike the other NPCers who posted, my first thought wasn't about the chapter, my first thought was, "Good lord, I hope her nationals take/took her letters!" Guess I'm just meaner than most.

*zooms back into lane*

[33girl]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Unlike the other NPCers who posted, my first thought wasn't about the chapter, my first thought was, "Good lord, I hope her nationals take/took her letters!" Guess I'm just meaner than most.

No, you're just from Pennsylvania. (high fives and pierogies)

This just ground my gears because at first she was all like "I was treated terribly, they hazed me, etc etc..."

THEN you get into the comments and she says things like "But if you had a strong personality (I'm an ENFP on the Myers-Briggs, Tamra), sorority life is stifling and full of too much ass-kissing fealty." That comes across to me that even if she would have had a dream pledging experience and never been treated with anything but the utmost respect, she would have STILL hated it. Sorority life does require a certain amount of going along with the group (and no, I don't mean hazing, I mean having the formal at a place you hate that everyone else loves). If you can't do that at least part of the time, you shouldn't be in one.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by 33girl

No, you're just from Pennsylvania. (high fives and pierogies)

This just ground my gears because at first she was all like "I was treated terribly, they hazed me, etc etc..."

THEN you get into the comments and she says things like "But if you had a strong personality (I'm an ENFP on the Myers-Briggs, Tamra), sorority life is stifling and full of too much ass-kissing fealty." That comes across to me that even if she would have had a dream pledging experience and never been treated with anything but the utmost respect, she would have STILL hated it. Sorority life does require a certain amount of going along with the group (and no, I don't mean hazing, I mean having the formal at a place you hate that everyone else loves). If you can't do that at least part of the time, you shouldn't be in one.

^^^ That's the part people are missing. I read the same things.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by 33girl

No, you're just from Pennsylvania. (high fives and pierogies)

This just ground my gears because at first she was all like "I was treated terribly, they hazed me, etc etc..."

THEN you get into the comments and she says things like "But if you had a strong personality (I'm an ENFP on the Myers-Briggs, Tamra), sorority life is stifling and full of too much ass-kissing fealty." That comes across to me that even if she would have had a dream pledging experience and never been treated with anything but the utmost respect, she would have STILL hated it. Sorority life does require a certain amount of going along with the group (and no, I don't mean hazing, I mean having the formal at a place you hate that everyone else loves). If you can't do that at least part of the time, you shouldn't be in one.

I agree.

And as someone else said, it could've been any organization that she had this self-revelation about because some people just need something to get their wheels turning.

Being Greek isn't for everyone but it isn't the only time in anyone's life where they will have to learn how to mix and mingle for the sake of group identity and a larger cause. Work, anyone? Family, anyone? Abiding by laws, anyone? Just existing as a human, anyone? Screw that chic and her pseudo-personality analyses.