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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cutesy crafts are easy to criticize but when a girl rushes freshman year she is still only 18 and months out of HS. They exchange what gifts they have or can make. It’s not always the highest quality. However some of the nicer small paintings and gifts have been passed down for years. They can also be purchased on Etsy. It’s part of a process. By the next year they look back and see that they are more mature & have outgrown that style of gift. [/quote]

I think you're underestimating the potential brilliance and power of 18 year old young women which in turn diminishes their own conception of themselves and their power.  Young women who get into UVA have taken rigorous courses and been at the top of their schools. The sorority culture encourages--requires--this kind of cutesy crafts and gifting. (Look online if you're not familiar). Add this on to the wearing of spanx, the keeping up appearances, the endless smiling. Why? Why do sororities want to communicate this talk of leadership, sisterhood etc. and then decide that they aren't free to contribute from their genuine talents, interests, but have to make some tangible crafts/gift item and conform to an image.   To me it's symbolic of the many ways we want young women to diminish themselves. Picture having young 18 year old men do this and how you--and they-- would perceive it.
  
And, sure, they might come to see growing beyond it as part of the process, who wouldn't--but wouldn't we hope for so much more --and different kind of growth from a year of college?!  No wonder fewer girls want to join sororities--it's diminishing and seems outdated.  It's too bad because we need sisterhood more than ever.  [/quote]

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