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| | Girls Just Want To Have Fun - A new book snoops on sororities. By Matt Feeney |
 | | The book is larded with moments of reflexive sneering and naively invidious description—Robbins' sorority girls typically "sniff," "sashay," "saunter," and "flaunt." And Robbins cherry-picks anecdotes to argue something that would be damning if it weren't ridiculous: For the affluent, attractive, sexually comfortable, socially savvy women who live in sorority houses, life is an unremitting drag. |
 | | As Robbins tells it, sorority women desperately try to have fun, but their efforts consistently misfire, leaving her with a bleak chronicle of bulimic purging, problem drinking, humiliating sex, and hour upon hour of cliquish infighting and romantic bickering. |
 | | It's hard to see how sorority fun accords with this, and, thus, why sororities should be officially recognized student organizations. |
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