Colleges are finally buckling down and truly going coed. The last big hurdle that many of them jumped was more than quarter century ago with coed dormitory buildings. Now, the first wave of universities are allowing coed dorm rooms for those that want them.
Yes Ladies and Gents, your boys and girls can now share a dorm room once they are away at school. I say, so what. There seems to be a big controversy over this from as you would expect it, parents, but after Yahoo’s morning report bring the story to the forefront we are starting to hear the bullshit rhetoric from unmarried women who just can’t imagine why a woman might want to share a space with a guy she didn’t want to have sex with or why a university would allow it between those who did. Then there is the outrage of those goodly godly types.
My response is, “Get over it!” If the rhetoric you have been feeding your kids about learning life lessons in college is true, living side by side with someone of the opposite sex, whether they are having sex or not, is one of those lessons. Your kids aren’t being forced to share a room with someone they don’t know or didn’t choose.
Could something go wrong if your child doesn’t choose wisely when picking a roommate? Sure, but that can be said of anyone they pick. Women are just as nasty to one another as any guy could be to them. I know you are all going to say your daughter won’t be raped by another woman. Well that does happen, not often, but it does.
Rooming with a woman doesn’t mean she won’t be raped by her roommate’s boyfriend or feel pressured when he brings over a friend of his own. There is also nothing to say just because she rooms with a guy of her choosing they will have sex or he is going to rape her.
Sex happens, rape is about power, and as a parent you are powerless to do anything about it. Also why aren’t you worried about your daughters sharing intimate space with another woman? Oh that is right you are too sure of your own sexuality and how good of a parent you are to believe she might experiment… HA!
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The Other Blog » Blog Archive » The Other Blog by Bradley Hart on
Sun, 4th May 2008 11:43 pm
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Philo on
Mon, 5th May 2008 9:32 am
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Brad on
Mon, 5th May 2008 1:28 pm
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Education Blog on
Fri, 22nd Aug 2008 11:24 pm
[...] Colleges Finally Going Coed (tags: battle of the sexes coed College Gender Issues higher education Parenting parents vs kids Sexual Equality) [...]
Don’t forget that at a lot of colleges there’s a waiting list for the dorms, so a lot of students live off campus. And ain’t nobody going through subleases to make sure girls only live with girls out in apartment land.
For the puritanical and worry-warts out there - here’s a thought: how about you teach your kids how to interact with people, how to deal with assholes, and other general “surviving in society” type lessons?
Thumbs up on the Philo! Of course I am not sure what is worse being on a waiting list for a dorm or on the flipside of things all the colleges that are making freshmen live on campus packing 2 of them in a 15×20 room making them share a bathroom with 20 or 30 other people and then having the audacity to charge each person the equivalent of $400 or more for it. My cousin was looking at moving into a suite when she transfered to a 4 year university last year. The price they quoted her for sharing a tiny bedroom with one other person, then sharing kitchenette, dining area and bathroom with 7 other people amounted to $700 a month. On top of that she still had to pay for phone, cable, internet service and parking which would have brought the cost to live in a crappy apartment with 7 other people to over $800 a month and the school said that was the best value on campus.
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