Do not join a sorority so you would think that hazing doesn’t happen anymore organizations founded on being exclusionary can never be inclusive A sorority that i was formerly a part of horrifically hazed lots of abuse several sororities got shut down during recruitment because of hazing practices you’re telling me that i could pay money to a historically racist organization so that i can be found naked on the front lawn of a frat
House this is unbelievable at my school my friend rushed a sorority in one of their hazing things where they had to strip down naked this is a common thing sit on a piece of newspaper on top of a running washer and watch lesbian corn if there was anything on the newspaper
After you got dropped as we know a lot of these sororities and fraternities are deeply embedded in racism classism and white supremacy in fact it’s the reason why african americans had to create the divine nine all of the black sororities and fraternities no smiling we were
Never allowed to smile we also were not allowed to tell sisters no if they told us to do something that none of these rules were in place to keep us safe they were all in place to manipulate us control us and just have total power
Over us rumor had it that many girls got herpes as a result another one forced girls so drunk so much alcohol that a handful got alcohol poisoning had to be sent to the hospital so choose between either doing hard drugs or hooking up with somebody that you don’t even know
The incidence of sexual assault is insane in greek life one time in chapter we did an activity where you had to stand if either you or someone you knew had ever been sexually assaulted there were 180 people in that room and every single person stood up this involves again women stripping down
Naked for a hockey team and entertaining them and the hockey team has to approve of the new pledges pledges were also not allowed to sit on couches or chairs we had to sit on the floor because we were literally and physically beneath them bonding through excruciating experiences it’s almost like
Trauma bonding i had to literally hire a lawyer because my sorority tried to scam me we had a chapter meeting where they said if you plan on studying abroad don’t sign a full lease sign a half lease perfect beautiful gorgeous fast forward i’m studying abroad i’m thinking
All is well when i get hit with a 3 000 fine from my sorority and at my university the sorority is allowed to bill your university bill what this means is that if i don’t pay my sorority charge i’m not allowed to sign up for classes yes the slideshow thing is
Absolutely real they literally show pictures of these girls i get tender and they stand up and say i don’t like this girl because of this and if some girl stands up doesn’t like you you are out we would rip girls apart with those slides it was inherently sexist we slept
Shamed a lot of people there was even a code word for it well traveled so that way we could say without nationals getting upset i don’t care people say it is totally determined by looks yes you can meet a girl and really vibe with her but they are looking for pretty girls
That will make their chapter look good i just saw a tick tock comment that was like well if your whole sorority went to a plantation party what are you gonna do not go yes yes i’m not gonna go there are plenty of organizations that have it written in
Their statutes that black people weren’t able to join that anyone non-white was not able to join i felt like a lot of the girls were just not seeing me because i wasn’t white i really remember being in a rush meeting and seeing every single woman of color be called
Aggressive nobody can just tell that they’re not interested in you and they didn’t really care about what you had to say that’s kind of how i felt so i guess my question is why choose a white one for me i would feel extremely unsafe especially if i was living in the
Sorority house we hear horror stories all the time about black girls being racially attacked by their white roommates and so on i felt like i was trying to prove my whiteness to them versus some girl who’s from the middle of nowhere they had no problem giving
Their time a day i used to live in the house which was decorated with all of the composites since its founding and in the almost 30 years there has not been a single member of color at all thank god it’s apparently classes because it costs
So much money to be a part of it dues are expensive dues when you don’t live in the house are like 700 which is also like what the you’re paying for friends they only exist so that rich people can network more efficiently as a result you don’t see a
Lot of economic diversity in a panhellenic or ifc organization i don’t give a flying if your sorority was the best thing that happened to you reading these types of stories hearing this type of there is a clear problem and i personally don’t think it needs to exist for the purpose of making
Friends because you can make friends in clubs not everyone’s sorority or fraternity experience is bad there can be good that comes out of it but i believe that the system as a whole is corrupt
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