i don't get it
by: WHYYYYYYWhy in the world would someone's MOTHER be on this website? What kind of woman is so bored or so controlling that she thinks perusing this site is a good idea? Here are some other/better things she could be doing with her time. 1. Get a job, 2. Get a better job, 3. Work at a soup kitchen, 4. Help the homeless, 5. Have an affair, 6. Find a cure for cancer, 7. Stop trying to live through her daughter, 8. Let it go. I know a lot of women don't have much going on in their lives and continue to be obsessed with their daughter's popularity even after she leaves for college, but, really, reading this website and COMMENTING? Have a little pride.
#1by: another mom
Why would some snotty brat of a girl take the time to write this post? Honestly you must have better things to do. Study, join a club, go to a party, volunteer, get a boyfriend, call your
Mom, invent something.
There are more moms on the site than you could imagine. This is a public forum. If you don't want us moms on the site maybe you need to consider opening a private group.
Commentby: Yes!
Thanks for this, OK. You said it more eloquently than I could. I went to Mizzou because it is a great school for my major, has a beautiful campus and a terrific greek system. But also because it is 600 miles away from my mother. I finally can live my life and I am doing a pretty good job of it: with a 3.92 gpa, amazing friends in my pledge class and a great guy to date. Meanwhile, my mother is back at home, still wearing UGGS and yoga pants and controlling every move my little sister makes. SO happy to here. And if my mother is reading this (and I wouldn't be surprised if she is), I don't care because she is the one who needs to grow up.
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by: Yes!!!!!
#3by: Greek God
by: Obviously
But why would mothers want to read it? That's what I can't figure out. Let it go and as others have said, get a frickin life.
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#4by: Me Too
I don't understand why moms would be on this site, either. They 1) aren't students 2) won't be going through rush 3) aren't knowledgeable enough to rank a sorority on GreekRank 4) aren't dating someone who is part of Greek Life and 5) haven't attended any parties or chapter meetings recently so they can't possibly know what they are talking about. So why are they on this site? Probably to check up on their daughters because they don't trust them to make decisions on their own. Or they wish they were still young and part of the sorority scene. And that's just sad.
by: Ahem.
We're pretty sure who YOU are, though. A mom who doesn't have a life of her own.
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#6by: really?
Here's a tip for everyone complaining about the moms. Stop expecting your parents to pay for your sorority dues, your housing, your merchandise, your drinking money, etc.
No, I'm not a mom. I am an alumna volunteer who is involved in greek life at Mizzou. And 95% of the collegians I work with are supported at least in part by their parents. Yes, some of them have part-time jobs, but rarely do they pay their own dues, especially not the first couple of years. Their parents have to make phone calls to chapter leaders and volunteers to talk about finances, or complain about finances, because their kids don't care about the money aspect and won't ask the questions themselves.
If you don't want your parents to be involved in your life or be curious about what you are spending their money on, and you want to be treated as an adult, then act like an adult and don't ask your parents to handle things that you are capable of handling, and don't ask them to spend thousands of dollars on a greek experience.
I have no tolerance for helicopter parents, but neither do I have tolerance for the pseudo-adults who want to be treated as an adult without acting like one.
(I don't mind parents paying for dues, housing, etc. I just think it's ungrateful to chastise those parents for being curious about their investment.)
by: really?
Where is your logic?
I don't see parents coming to new member meetings, or going to socials, or checking to see what their kids are wearing to greek events.
Apples and oranges. Periodically checking a gossip site (which takes all of five minutes) isn't even in the same ballpark as your ludicrous examples.
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by: nononono
C'mon Old Lady. Time to stop justifying your sorry existence and rationalizing your behavior. Get off this site.
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by: Hmmm....
Perhaps they are having trouble with the fact that they are aging. Like the daughter who posted about moms wearing UGGs and yoga pants. A lot of women don't want to accept the fact that they aren't young any more so they look ridiculous trying to wear youngish fashion. The mother of one of my friends was always talking about how she would borrow her daughter's clothes. And she was proud of it! Pathetic.
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by: OK
My mom isn't on this site, but if she was I would be so angry. Just like I was angry when she worried about every little playground argument I told her about that made her want to call school and made me feel like I was a total failure. Just like I was angry when I didn't do well enough on my science project and she redid it after I went to bed. (By the way, I got an F on that project because the teacher said it couldn't have been a student's work). Just like she would ask me every day at dinner during spring of my junior year whether I had a date for prom and finally, when I did, I didnt tell her because I was sure he wouldn't measure up to her standards (even though he got accepted to Stanford). Getting away from my mother was the best thing I ever did. On this campus I am a member of a top house, get great grades, had an outstanding internship and, best of all,. figured out that my mother was the loser, not me. She still hasn't gotten a life, just like the mothers on this site. But I have and it's great, mainly because I am no longer exposed to her constant scrutiny. And, oh, she will tell you she did it all out of love. Just like the women on this site who can't seem to let their own daughters live their lives.
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