I am currently in a sorority. The class discussion and the reading today really made me think about rush and everything that is included with it in a totally different way. To be perfectly honest, I am a little offended that this girl did this “investigative” piece on sororities. I should understand, because I am a journalist myself; but I just can’t bring myself to justify what she did. This girl went undercover at recruitment and wrote a story about it. I feel as this one story can’t speak for every “rush” that is out there. Every house has a different style of rush, and every campus has a different style of rush. I feel like some people might read this and think that every “rush” in the country is like this, when in fact, it is not.
Today’s class also brought up a good subject about “beauty” in sororities. The girl in the youtube video was asked, “How do you get rid of ugly girls?” She responded with, “Well, it really isn’t even brought up. Girls just vote against them, and they are gone.” With my experience in rush, I do not believe this to be the case. But in other cases, like these girls, I guess they really do judge the girls on how they look, not by their personality. Getting to know girls in about a 20-minute period is really hard. So, that is why a lot of houses base the girl on their ‘reputation.’ One person in our class today didn’t think that it was okay to do this. I would really like him to put himself in our shoes and go through the agony that we have to endure.
it might be a bit premature to condemn all greek organizations but i feel like the sorority piece wasn't attempting to do that anyway. in fact she consludes that the sorority rush process is merely a microcasm resulting from the daily prejudice used by society at large.
ReplyDeletei feel like the problem goes deeper than merely 'reputation' being the source of sorority rejection. in courts a rape survivor's "reputation" is often placed under more scrutiny than the rapist is. i wish more people would stop to consider that one's past reputation does not at all affect one's current potential in business, education, or society. think about this: if one is a prostitute from 8am-5pm and at 6pm another person forcibly has sex with you, is that rape? in a court most likely the defence could win saying not only were you asking for it, but you had been selling your body all day. one's reputation should never be a justification for forced sex.