For This Intervention:
For this intervention, the idea is not to completely change one's perspective of a sorority girl, but rather for one to become aware of what the images of "sorority girls" are in the media. This theme of the pink-wearing, fake boobed, gold digging, attractive, ditzy, slutty sorority girl makes all women look bad, it is debatably one of the worst images of women in the media. The image of the "sorority girl" has moved beyond portrayals of members of made-up sororities in movies. Now the idea of a “sorority girl” in the media can be thought of as any girl who is pink-wearing, fake-boobed, attractive, gold digging, ditzy and slutty, which is currently quite a popular image in media. This creates a situation in which people may assume a woman who displays any of these characteristics to be the “sorority girl” type. For example, if an attractive woman wearing a pink suit walks into a business meeting, some may assume that she is also slutty and dumb and not worth taking business advice from, when in reality this woman may be a genius who enjoys wearing the color pink. So this image of the “sorority girl” in the media creates a problem for all women, forcing them to don themselves in drab attire and act about as lively as a seventy-five year old nun to gain any respect from others in society, especially respect from men in a business setting. The image of a “sorority girl” in media concurrently creates a problem for men as well, by setting up a certain set of associations of and expectations for women.
Do letters define a person?
From campus to campus, young women and men are flashing their "letters" on everything from shirts and bags to the stickers on their cars. Do these letters define these people? Having these letters on our car or on your shirt does say something about you. Due to this stereotype that the media has placed on female Greeks, when a girl is seen wearing her letters, she automatically falls into one of the two categories. She may as well wear a shirt that says "Slut" or “Princess" according to what the media says!
2 comments:
A stigma does come from wearing Greek letters plastered across ones chest or better yet, ones back side! The media will always do it's best to exploite the publics need to jump to conclusions. It is up to the girls wearing these garments to do their best to only portray the image they want portrayed in effort to fight back against the stereotype.
I totally agree that posting your greek letters, or any orgainzation with which you associate, on yourself or your belongings it says something about you. (if it didnt say something it would be worthless to display them) It is up to the person displaying their letters to act in an appropriate manner. People see you and your letters and assume that everyone in your organization acts the same way that you do.
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