All the guys that I know that read it took it a lot better than the girls. Guys would come up to me at the bar and be like, "Oh my god, you're that girl," blah, blah, blah, and just be really, really excited and pumped, like, they thought I was actually deranged or insane, but girls were a lot cagier about it because they thought I was just this really raging bitch kind of person that was screaming and angry all the time. So guys were more excited whereas girls were more hesitant. Had you always wanted to be a writer or was it just kind of like after everything that happened, you rolled with it?
It just kind of happened. I was an English major and I didn't really know what I was going to do when I graduated. I knew I was pretty OK at writing, but I didn't really know what to do with that necessarily, and then this all happened and I got really lucky. I want to talk about Taylor Bell's book Dirty Rush. I read it in, like, two hours yesterday, and I still don't know if I wanted to laugh or cry because it just felt so real. Is it based on a true story?
Well, Taylor is, like, a good friend of mine so it's all just her experience in college and what-not. So it's all just told from what she went through when she went to school. The quote I keep coming back to that Taylor's sorority sisters all come back to as well was the idea that from the outside looking in, you can never understand Greek life and from the inside looking out, you can never explain it.
Do you think people who do go Greek do have to be a little bit insane to do it? Specifically to go through the process of rushing and pledging? I mean the process itself is It's one of those things where if you know it's something you want, even if it sucks at first, and you work for it and you work through it, it'll pay off. So it's kind of just a matter of persevering and knowing what you want to get out of something. We find that, with our readers all the time, that they're so divided on Greek life: One person in the comments will be like, "Well, Greek life is the reason America the worst.
You said in the foreword that you loved your sorority so much for the year you were in it, yet so much shit went down after the email. In Dirty Rush , Taylor goes to hell and back after a fake blow job video of her goes viral and, still, somehow, she loves her sorority too.
I wrote an article on hazing and was shunned by my sorority, but I'll never not be friends with a few of those girls. Why do we all still feel that way even though we were kind of, like, put through hell? Why did I still love being in a sorority? Because I got so much out of it. Just because it ended poorly doesn't mean that it wasn't good for the amount of time that I was in it, you know?
Like, it's not like the entire thing was just, like, a load of crap that I hated. I loved it the entire year I was there. Just because it ended poorly doesn't mean that I didn't make good friends, I didn't have good experiences, I didn't, like, not grow as a person. Did people on campus misunderstand what you were trying to do with that original email?
Some people who weren't in Greek life were just sounding off in comments that I would read and I saw people saying that I was telling people to sleep with men and stuff like that, and I don't know where they got that from at all because that wasn't in there anywhere.
I guess some people just took it how they wanted to see it because they already had preconceived notions of what Greek life was and they just decided to use it to reinforce what they thought, even if that wasn't in there. Do you still speak to a lot of girls from your chapter? I speak to just as many as I would still talk to even if I hadn't written that email.
I talk to about five or so. And those were the five that I thought I was really friends with and So it's the same as if I hadn't written it, honestly, I think. After reading this book, would you want your daughter or your sister or someone you love to join a sorority? Would you want her to write about it? If that was something she was into and she wanted to do, I would support her in it.
If she wanted to go Greek, I would support her in it, and I think she should because you get a lot of leadership experiences and you learn to talk to people and things like that. And if she wanted to write a tell-all, that'd be fine.
I'd tell her that she might burn a couple bridges doing it, but as long as she was prepared for the fallout, whatever. Her not-so-kind words of advice went crazy viral back in And now the girl who invented the term "cu-- punt" is a published writer. Martinson has been busy since she shot to internet infamy. She graduated from the University of Maryland last year and is currently an associate editor at BroBible , where she's written about everything from sex scandals to G.
Joe to -- obviously -- Greek life. She also has superb cat photoshopping skills, which I'm really jealous of:. Martinson penned a handful of articles for Total Sorority Move as well. But one of her most notable pieces by far -- since her notorious DG email, obvi -- is probably the "My First Double Bl--job" story she wrote for Vice in November
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