After conducting my interviews, I was not surprised at the results that I gathered. Almost all of my participants were united on their positionality towards Greek Life and could agree, to some extent, that Greek Life does receive an unfair amount of negative publicity in the media. In order to come to the conclusion that the Greek community receives a lot of negative publicity, I needed evidence from both my interviews and external sources. I was able to gather opinions from each of my participants and each one of them agreed with this statement. One of these participants, “Jorge,” mentioned a fraternity on our campus. This chapter has an event called “Derby Days” and during their most recent fundraiser, they managed to raise over $2,000
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When I asked them about these labels, each one of them was able to give multiple stereotypes for sorority girls such as basic bitches, stuck up, easy to sleep with, slutty, rude, mean, and forced to dress like Barbie’s. For fraternity men, the answers I got included, meatheads, jocks, alcoholics, rapists, assholes, cocky, out for sex, rude, douchebags, and always wearing preppy clothes. This is the stigma that Greek Life members are faced with when introducing themselves. When I asked my Greek Life participants how their parent’s reacted to them joining a fraternity or sorority, their responses ranged from their parents being supportive (Jorge), being extremely negative (Leila), and being neutral on the subject (Rusty and Juliet). Similarly, when I asked them how people usually react to them being in Greek Life my participants responses were that people don’t really care (Rusty) and that other people in Greek Life are excited and begin asking them which fraternity or sorority they’re in. On the other hand, non-Greek Life members tend to be critical and negative towards them (Jorge, Juliet, and Leila). From this information, it’s clear that Greek Life members tend to face a lot of criticism from people outside of the community and in the case of Leila, from their own family. My question is where does this negativity come
When I asked them about these labels, each one of them was able to give multiple stereotypes for sorority girls such as basic bitches, stuck up, easy to sleep with, slutty, rude, mean, and forced to dress like Barbie’s. For fraternity men, the answers I got included, meatheads, jocks, alcoholics, rapists, assholes, cocky, out for sex, rude, douchebags, and always wearing preppy clothes. This is the stigma that Greek Life members are faced with when introducing themselves. When I asked my Greek Life participants how their parent’s reacted to them joining a fraternity or sorority, their responses ranged from their parents being supportive (Jorge), being extremely negative (Leila), and being neutral on the subject (Rusty and Juliet). Similarly, when I asked them how people usually react to them being in Greek Life my participants responses were that people don’t really care (Rusty) and that other people in Greek Life are excited and begin asking them which fraternity or sorority they’re in. On the other hand, non-Greek Life members tend to be critical and negative towards them (Jorge, Juliet, and Leila). From this information, it’s clear that Greek Life members tend to face a lot of criticism from people outside of the community and in the case of Leila, from their own family. My question is where does this negativity come