Throwing without Knowing?

[DrPhil]

Yes, she should've said that.

Instead she came across as being unfamiliar with the existence of non-NPC women's GLOs; mocked the GLOs that use hand signs; and announced she's on the late bus for just discovering gang signs (I hope her "expert" is a fictional character she created in an attempt to validate her message).

[33girl]

Also....she went to Pitt. The school is not tucked away in a bucolic small town or suburban enclave. It's in a city setting.

[DrPhil]

Some NPHC NHQs will not use photos with hand signs on official documents or will only use the photos for information on collegiate members or occasionally when showing updates on alumnae/alumni/graduate chapter events.

Yet the NPHC GLOs that frown upon the prevalence of hand signs (and stepping and strolling) often do so without labeling and mocking the overall practice and the GLOs that engage in that practice. We know that gangs do hand signs and physical gestures like Crip Walk that are similar to strolls. I have been at parties with Bloods and Crips doing hand signs and movements alongside NPHC fraternities doing hand signs and strolls. It sometimes is difficult to distinguish the groups in that kind of setting and there can be tension.

Still, these GLO traditions didn't come from gangs. There are BGLOs (NPHC and non-NPHC) and other GLOs that consider calls, strolls, stepping, and hand signs to come from global cultures and traditions, practices learned in the military, and practices created years ago for the GLOs. It is fine if some GLOs don't want those practices adopted for their GLO. Just handle your own business without even appearing to call everyone else out on their use of these practices.