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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Many of the points she brought up criticizing Greek life were ones I have seen echoed by me, Kath, 33girl and many others here on GC. But as a whole, I don't think that this book was that far off from what many girls experience in their sororities -- I know it's not THAT far away from mine.
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H, I saw a couple of the passages you're talking about where women expressed frustration with what they wanted to be vs. nationals' view, and I totally agreed. But then she screwed herself in the next paragraph by confusing HQ staff with national councils.
This reminds me of the TV reviewer who said that his biggest beef with Barney the dinosaur was not that the show was inane, but that the production values were so horribly bad. I know Greek life and terminology is complicated but I expect someone who went to farking YALE to be able to research it and get her facts straight.
Contrast this with a poster at another board I visit who wrote a book on the Romanoffs. Believe me, she knows everything about the structure and history of the Russian royal family (and the English royal family for that matter) that any human can possibly know.
Edited to add, that even if she is on the side of the chapters and sororities that DON'T fit the stereotypes, this book won't help them. It will only make it more difficult for them to convince people that there is anything positive to be gotten from the experience.
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