from the author of Pledged

[XOMichelle]

I went into a bookstore and read the first 5 pages of the book. I was quite disgusted. She used a respectful neutral tone, but chose words that typecast sororities into elitist groups and the members into wannabe trophy wives. She describes the plethora of expensive name brand outfits, and coifed hairdos as a hideous drawback of sorority life. Um, have you ever been to LA? Just walking down the street you will find more women with an LV handbag than you would at a college. Generally, I disagreed with her description. The girls at my school spend more time in Express or Forever 21 than they do in Neiman Marcus.

She made fun of colors for godsakes! Like calling red and yellow "cardinal" and "straw" (which btw changes the color), was elitist. Um, the colors were picked by 17 year olds in the late 1800's. Making fun of that is like picking a fight with your 85 year old grandmother.

All in all, I didn't like the book because her account is so different from the experience I had and the experiences everyone I know had in college with their sororities. Not only that, I thought she was NOT open minded when it came to developing her opinion of the sorority, and the claim that she respects our organizations is just lipservice.

ps- can someone write a book where they discuss the dark side of the publishing industry so we can outrage the book company?