Ohmigod You Guys
In the comments to the previous post, Jenn alerted us to this article, about an Indiana sorority named Delta Zeta that had a reputation of being "socially awkward" and responded by kicking out 23 of their members.
"The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit."
Of course the sorority is claiming it was "mischaractarized" and had something to do with fundraising or something. Brava to those six "conventionally pretty" women who quit. And what does that say about the other six, who stayed in? So much for sisterhood.
"The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit."
Of course the sorority is claiming it was "mischaractarized" and had something to do with fundraising or something. Brava to those six "conventionally pretty" women who quit. And what does that say about the other six, who stayed in? So much for sisterhood.
Labels: fatism
posted by mo pie at 4:35 PM
3 Comments:
That's just crappy. My question: the article said the psychology professor ran the survey every year--toward what end, I wonder?
I grew up in Indiana, and a high-school friend went to DePauw. He said that most students there are in the "Greek" system, and that there's not much else going on. It sounded awful to me. I wonder if the Prof. was trying to make a point about that, or about social stereotyping. As a college teacher, I could totally believe that scenario- Prof tries to make a point about social cliques or prejudice, and then students use his or her results to act out some social stereotyping.
Incidents like this are why I love the fact that my college has mostly local sororities. We made our own rules, raised our own money, and did our own thing...and my sisters are a bunch of smart, amazing women - conventionally pretty, unconventionally beautiful, all shapes and sizes.
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