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Originally posted by 33girl
And I will say again, if everyone knows what group you are in, it doesn't make a damn bit of difference if you wear or don't wear your letters while you are smoking/drinking/cussing/buying Britney Spears CDs. (That was for you ZTAngel.) If those things are "bad" or "disrespectful" in letters, you shouldn't do them out of letters either.
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I disagree that it doesn't make ANY difference. There is a difference between knowing somebody is in a GLO and having a huge, neon pink reminder of it on their tee shirt while they're at a party. You're less likely to make the immediate connotation of sorority girl + completely trashed if you don't have that constant reminder of it. When someone who is in a sorority happens to be drunk, her (non-Greek) friends and acquaintances usually think of her as being drunk AND being a sorority girl . . . if she was wearing her letters at the time they're more likely to think of her as a "drunk sorority girl" -- the two end up being connected instead of two separate things. (And yeah I've discussed this with my non-Greek friends who happen to know a handful of Greeks, so there's where this comes from.)
But I agree, if people know you're in a GLO and you're drinking, you're still re-enforcing the stereotype.
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