Greek life. What comes to mind? Fratastic boat shoes, polos, croakies, coozies, hazing, assholes, parties, beer & lots of liquor? Sorority sluts, dumb stuck up blondes, superficial bitches?
Almost every form of multimedia such as tv, movies, etc. give me this impression. But is it real?
Animal house, house bunny, ABC Family's Greek, Revenge of the Nerds, Accepted, Old School, legally blonde....
the list goes on of different forms of greek life media.
I was reading The Lantern which is Ohio State University's student online paper and a journalism major wrote about the positives of Greek life hidden from the stereotype. I agree with the writer. Though I am not greek. I grew up with my entire family being greek. I know the advantages and disadvantages of joining.
While the stereotypes are pushed way beyond the limit I do see some truth behind them. I feel like the stereotype given to students in greek organizations is the everyday common college kid, greek or a GDI, but they label it as greek life because it is a big group of students put together with a name.
So, is the media's perception of greek life legit? I already have an opinion but who knows, maybe this research paper might change my mind.
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I would deffinitely agree that greek life is one of the biggest stereotypes currently and has been going on for a long time. And I think it can really go both ways. Yeah there's the "party" side of every greek student, yet there can also be a very mature scholarly side to someone involved in greek life. I can really relate to this stereotype because I am one of them. But I wouldn't say that I fit that image of constant drinking and snobby attitude and rich parents (although some very well are). I would be very interested in hearing what the experts have to say about the truth of this greek life stereotype.
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