It's entirely different! When trying out for a sport, I don't get to rank Football, Basketball, baseball, swimming and tennis as to which teams I'd like to join and wait for them to rank me back after 5 minute of speed dating 5 members of the team. Instead I would attend a tryout for the sport and go through workout, drills, playing the actual sport for several hours/days. If I have the skills I will make the team. are you actually comparing the qualities to be in a sorority (looks, makeup, dress, family background, who you are dating, etc. ) to be the same as the qualities to be on the baseball team (fast pitcher, great hitter, good fielder, fast runner, etc). Tryouts for a sports team are 90% quantitative and 10% if the coach likes your attitude/academic desire at the college level/non-quantitative things important to a team. Those who make the swim team are those who are fastest swimmers at the trials---there is no question who that is after the swim trials are completed. Key point: I can work to make myself better at a sport. In Sorority rush, I can't make myself prettier, change my family background or economic background, skin color, ethnic background or clothing (ie if I can't afford designer clothes I can't magically make them appear). Just like in the real world, unless I'm a model, how I look should have no bearing on whether I get a job or not---only my qualifications to do the job should matter. Yes, rush is voluntary. But when something is toxic for society, we shouldn't just say "it's voluntary, you just don't do it". we should work toward eliminating that toxicity. Philanthropic service clubs that anyone with an interest can join could easily replace the "good work" that greek life provides. |
So don't rush. |
And be left out completely |
Grow up, snowflake. |
Why would anyone want to be part of a system founded on privilege and discrimination and perpetuated through exclusion based the most superficial and so often unearned attributes? |
Who doesn’t want to be “in”? |
For the same reason people get worked up about tearing it down. |
Real estate. |
You deserve the vicious world you create and condone - Greek life is gross and it's amazing grown parents could defend it. It's exclusive and pathetic, paying for friends out of pure insecurity and conformity. |
And that would be? |
Best money I ever spent. I have a pre made network of women who share my values and experiences in wherever I am in the US. It was fun in college and fun as an adult. |
Buying friends and excluding others! |
This is just ignorant. Members are recruited on grades and leadership first and then looks, personality and background. Of course groups want the whole package. Everyone everywhere , from college admissions to dating to employers- wants the whole package. |
Yes. You and I probably wouldn’t get along in real life, and wouldn’t be a match as friends, for example. |
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