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| Optimistic | Aug 2 2006, 08:16 AM Post #26 |
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Also, most universities like to pride themselves on their openness and tolerance, and I think that having sexual orientation-specific dorms- no matter what their reasons- would earn them quite a lot of backlash. |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| Christopher T | Aug 2 2006, 08:18 AM Post #27 |
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The gay men only dorm wouldn't make sense if you're trying to keep people from living together who might have sex... The str8 men only dorm would work. They'd have to pair a str8 guy with a gay guy in each room or something to make it work, either that or a gay guy with a str8 woman or lesbian in each room. Seems too difficult. |
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| Christopher T | Aug 2 2006, 08:22 AM Post #28 |
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My partner Christopher and I are moving to Rochester. Christopher got an official job offer today at one of the largest law firms there, so we can go ahead and bid on the house we want probably tomorrow or Friday. I'm very excited. The music scene in Rochester is wonderful, and the people in Rochester are so incredibly nice! |
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| The 89th Key | Aug 2 2006, 08:23 AM Post #29 |
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Opt, you're right - it's a marketing game. Chris, good point...although you have to admit the gay-men-only dorm would probably be the cleanest, best-smelling, and best-decorated dorm on campus!
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| Christopher T | Aug 2 2006, 08:25 AM Post #30 |
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Only if it were full of gay men like me! Not Kenny...he apparently didn't inherit the decorating gene.
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| kenny | Aug 2 2006, 08:26 AM Post #31 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Uhm Lots of gay guys are pigs. ![]() Congratulations CT!
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| ivorythumper | Aug 2 2006, 09:18 AM Post #32 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Maybe you need to get your gaydar unit replaced. Is it still in warrantY? :lol: |
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| LWpianistin | Aug 2 2006, 09:51 AM Post #33 |
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To keep smelly, sweaty boys OUT! I would actually HATE to live in a dickless dungeon. Too much estrogen. Well...let's take it one level further - why are there male and female only schools?? |
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| Optimistic | Aug 2 2006, 09:58 AM Post #34 |
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My undergrad school was a women's college. From the website:
Is there much need anymore for a college geared toward advancing women? I don't think so. I know a few are now becoming co-ed. |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| LWpianistin | Aug 2 2006, 10:06 AM Post #35 |
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Yeah, I don't think there is much need any more. They used to be basically just to prepare a woman for marriage, really. I went to an all-girl's school from the age of 10 - 14 3/4. It was all right. The opportunities I had there were better than those offered at the public schools down the road, but it wasn't useful because it was girls-only, it was becuase it was private and had more money. It also turns out snobby girls who I find annoying. On a side note, I'm meeting up with some girls from that school at a pub tonight. I am feeling like it will be a sort of HS reunion, as I haven't seen most of them for 6 years. I also didn't get on with some of them...should be interesting. |
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| LWpianistin | Aug 2 2006, 10:07 AM Post #36 |
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Longwood (my school) was a women's college until....1973, I think. The female - male ratio is just about 2 -1.
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| The 89th Key | Aug 2 2006, 10:11 AM Post #37 |
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LW, I know that is personally true, when I visited there in 2002.
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| LWpianistin | Aug 2 2006, 10:13 AM Post #38 |
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:lol: Yes, it's a bit unfair for the girls, though.
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| kenny | Aug 2 2006, 10:14 AM Post #39 |
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To distract the gay students so they can't study, and get a crappy education. It is a big discriminatory plot against us.
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| sue | Aug 2 2006, 10:19 AM Post #40 |
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I would think so, Opti. And hope so. My son is just starting to investigate possible universities, and I hope wherever he ends up is a good mix of people; sort of like real life. Geez, he's only been checking out available courses, faculties, tuition fees and unimportant things like that.
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| Optimistic | Aug 2 2006, 10:20 AM Post #41 |
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Whoops!! That shouldn't say "I doubt," it should say "I think"!!! |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| sue | Aug 2 2006, 10:22 AM Post #42 |
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:lol: I 'read' think, not doubt, Opti!! |
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| Daniel\ | Aug 2 2006, 03:55 PM Post #43 |
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I give up. Would someone please show me how to make text with a line going through it? Thanks! Daniel
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| George K | Aug 2 2006, 03:58 PM Post #44 |
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Substitute straight brackets [] for curly ones {}. {s}Strike{/s} Through Becomes |
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| The 89th Key | Aug 2 2006, 04:13 PM Post #45 |
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Using a code like
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| Nina | Aug 2 2006, 04:40 PM Post #46 |
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I don't know if there is a "need" any more, like there was a need for colleges to "finish" girls so they'd make interesting wives and stuff like that. But I do think there's a definite place for all-women colleges. There's something to be said for an academic environment that doesn't have all the weird sexual stuff going on in the classroom--the competition, the flirting, the obsession about clothes, etc. I feel the same way about all men's colleges, for what it's worth. My only beef was when the many of the top-tier colleges were closed to women. The sister colleges can hold their own against any Ivy League in terms of quality of education, IMO. |
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| John Jacob Jingoism Smith | Aug 2 2006, 04:49 PM Post #47 |
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Christopher T, Sorry to hear about the homophobic metros. I thought the definition of metros included being comfortable mixing with gays. But perhaps if metros are straights who borrow from style/grooming etc of gays, perhaps there is another level of people who simply copy what the metros are doing without understanding the context. In any case I am sorry to hear about the hostile reactions. It's so much easier and more pleasant just to say 'sorry, not Gay'. |
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| Daniel\ | Aug 2 2006, 09:33 PM Post #48 |
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In the Ivy League/ Seven Sisters group there are (were?) notable exceptions to men being admitted. Bryn Mawr, Smith, Mount Holyoke didn't last time I checked. Daniel |
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| LWpianistin | Aug 3 2006, 01:04 AM Post #49 |
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Ah, but at an all-girls' school there is obsession with clothes and LOADS of competition, LOTS of slut-like attitudes (they were the "cool" ones who went to the boys' school across the road when the day was over), and so much behind-your-back talking... Oh...the memories. Still give me a headache. |
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| Optimistic | Aug 3 2006, 04:30 AM Post #50 |
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Not necessarily. My school wasn't like that at all. Dress was very casual, sometimes in sweats or even pajamas. Most people didn't even really worry about hair or makeup because. . . who to impress? I did appreciate the academic environment that you described, Nina; and I think the general consensus among the girls I talked to was that they were more confident speaking up in class because there were no guys present that they felt they needed to impress. I guess the biggest beef I had with that was that it's *not* a realistic representation of the environments the students will face once they leave that academic world and enter the "real" world and their careers. |
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