I’ve always been fascinated with the Greek system of fraternities and sororities over in American universities which seems to get away with so much quite frankly disturbing behaviour on the sole basis that it’s ‘tradition’, but I don’t think I’ve ever really realised just how disgusting it actually is.
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Yeah, I understand that most people are recruited to frats or sororities because of the social status of their families or their good looks or whatever, but this college graduate named Eli Rallo has really decided to break it down in the following TikTok. She was a member of Sigma Kappa at the University Of Michigan and describes the ranking system that she was handed for rush – the sorority recruitment process – where she has to judge the ‘potential’ of a girl after having a five minute conversation with her.
Here’s what she had to say:
@thejarrSo scary
If you pretend not to know about the toxicity of Greek life, specifically sorority rush, I found this email from when I was in Greek life.
You have a five minute conversation with her then you have to rank her one out of four – one, she’s never coming back, four, she’s great – based on a five minute conversation. Makes sense, right? That’s totally fair.
We had to meet up to give the new girls rankings and I was charged $100 if i didn’t attend these meetings, so instead I would just try to sabotage them. I lived to sabotage. This [the Rush sheet] is a nightmare. It’s disgusting. It is the ultimate way to pit women against one another. To judge them for the most arbitrary things. This is misogynistic, it’s fat phobic, it’s classist. It’s so many horrible things. I can’t believe it was in my email. Why does this exist, why does Greek life exist?”
Yeah, she raises a good question there but it doesn’t really explain why she ended up in a sorority herself or didn’t end up quitting because she found it so toxic or whatever. I guess the benefits outweigh the negatives, but at least she’s speaking out about it now.
Whether it will do any good or not is anybody’s guess as it seems like frats and sororities are organisations that people still want to join and can’t get enough of, despite the vast amount of negative press they always seem to be getting. I guess some people out there are just different and that’s just what they crave.
For more of the same, check out the ten most horrific fraternity hazing stories in history. Completely rogue.
