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Originally Posted by agzg
I'm not getting into a pissing match with you.
That said, it's more than "just a sorority" and it should be. At the beginning, of course it's not the end of the world if a PNM does not recieve a bid or one to her favorite house.
And to have MY experience trivialized that way is offensive, because to me (and so many other members of GC and alumnae groups) it is so so so much more than "just a sorority."
ETA: I've continued thinking about this post and others in this thread. Instead of telling everyone that THEY need to respect YOUR view when you're so disrespectful of thiers. I'm a firm believer that sorority membership (in ANY sorority, in ANY council, at ANY school, from ANY "tier") affords a woman multiple opportunities to shape her own life, and her own future, and that carries WELL past the collegiate experience. I'm not saying it has to be first, but the line is blurred time and time again if you want it to be and I still can't get over how offensive it is to read that my own sorority experience (and that of so many thousands of other women) has been boiled down to "silly" "frivalous" or "trivial."
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If I start counting how many times I've repeated myself I'll end up with a number like 543950849654903.
There is no pissing match because you are responding to something that was never written in the first place. You are responding to one line of one post, and ignoring all of the others both before it and after it. It is very obvious that the line "It's just a sorority" does not mean that it is "frivolous" or "trivial".
Please frame your posts as separate musings, because while your post is eloquent and heartfelt it is in no way a response to mine. I have never once said a sorority, or a person's experience in a sorority, life, earth, etc. is silly or frivolous. I have in fact,
many, many times now, said that a sorority experience is personal and have explained what mine meant to me. I have asked that that be respected. I have also explained many, many times that it was certainly not silly and I have even carefully listed the several ways in which I believe it helped me and the things I learned from being a member. You, I and every other member of a GLO has an individual experience as a member and I very firmly believe that should be respected. We are all different people with different experiences and
that is ok. Instead of focusing on one line of my posts, please read all of the words that precede it.
No one in this thread has said one time that an organization itself is either silly or frivolous, nor have they implied it. No one here has attacked you or your organization. And no one here has implied that GLO's are not important to members, or that they are not useful to both members and individuals that the organizations help. Not once has anyone's experience in an organization been called "silly", "frivolous", or "trivial".
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