For as long as I can remember, I have dreamed of the day that I would become a sorority woman. I imagined what it would be like receiving a bid from my dream sorority, I imagined the day I would get my amazing big, and I looked forward to the day I would be initiated but I never imagined I would be reading such hateful and cruel words about the sorority I love towards the people that I love.

Sorority women have done amazing things throughout our history including being the first female astronaut, the first woman general of the Marine Corp, numerous first ladies, actresses, and writers. In the past year, sororities have been able to donate about one million service hours and have raised almost 6 billion dollars for charities nationwide. Graduation rates for those in a sorority are 20% higher than those who were not and GPA within sorority women is notably higher. I could give you all the statistics in the world showing how great sororities are, but it will never really matter if all we do is tear each other apart online. So how is it between doing all these amazing things for the world, that we have time to cyberbully?

Greekrank.com is a website for people to rank sororities and fraternities based on appearance, popularity, community involvement, classiness, social life, sisterhood, and tier while having the opportunity to write comments along with the ranking. Greek rank is a website made for the anonymous and the weak to cyberbully and I for one do not want to be involved. Under the terms of use, Greek Rank explains if they “believe the content is unacceptable” they will remove it at their discretion, but how hateful does a comment have to be to be considered offensive?

Being in a sorority we face a lot of stereotypes, fabrications constructed from unrealistic movies of the ditzy blonde or the rich girl with a convertible. We are often seen as the punch line to a joke, the costume to a theme party, and the picture image of what superficial looks like. And when we post to websites like greekrank.com we are only feeding into those fallacies and proving our stereotypes to be true.

For those of you posting on Greek Rank, know this: although you are technically anonymous, you are representing your Greek Life as a whole. Your comments not only hurt the targeted sorority but it negatively shapes your classmate’s, family’s, and school’s opinions and how they view you and other sororities.

We have faced a lot of negative stigma over the years but the reason why it’s so easy for those not in the Greek community to look down on sororities is because they see us doing this to our fellow houses. If we want people to respect us as an institution, we need to learn how to respect each other first.