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Topic Started: Aug 2 2006, 05:55 AM (761 Views)
Optimistic
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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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Christopher T
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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
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kenny
Aug 2 2006, 10:50 AM
Christopher T
Aug 2 2006, 06:46 AM
Unfortunately it's not usually a polite response, like "Sorry, but I'm not gay."

It's usually something like, "What are you looking at, faggot?"  or, "You got a problem with your eyes, faggot?"

And in NYC, I find this particularly disturbing.  That's why I'm moving.

Really?
Where to, if you don't mind? You can PM.

I don't think there is a city anywhere where straight guys can be counted on to politely decline interest from a gay guy.

Be careful.
We live in a dangerous world.
I think it is going to be many many generations before being gay is no big deal.

Slavery ended long ago but still crappy attitudes towards blacks are still pretty common.

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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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! :P
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Christopher T
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Aug 2 2006, 12:23 PM
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! :P

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
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Aug 2 2006, 08:23 AM
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! :P

Uhm
Lots of gay guys are pigs.

:leaving:


Congratulations CT! :thumb:
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Christopher T
Aug 2 2006, 07:36 AM
Let me be more specific. I keep hitting on str8 guys accidentally because they look gay. It's just awkward for both parties involved when that happens. :wub:

Maybe you need to get your gaydar unit replaced. Is it still in warrantY? :lol:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Aug 2 2006, 10:03 AM


I mean...why are there seperate men-only and women-only dorms in the first place? ;)

To keep smelly, sweaty boys OUT! :P

I would actually HATE to live in a dickless dungeon. Too much estrogen. :unsure:

Well...let's take it one level further - why are there male and female only schools??
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Aug 2 2006, 01:51 PM
why are there male and female only schools??

My undergrad school was a women's college.

From the website:
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Founded in 1873 by the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND), College of Notre Dame of Maryland was the first Catholic college for women to award the four–year baccalaureate degree. Notre Dame’s fundamental dedication to young women endures today, even as the mission has expanded to serve working adults, both male and female.


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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LWpianistin
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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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Optimistic
Aug 2 2006, 01:58 PM

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.

Longwood (my school) was a women's college until....1973, I think. The female - male ratio is just about 2 -1. :eek:
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LW, I know that is personally true, when I visited there in 2002. :devilgrin:
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Aug 2 2006, 02:11 PM
LW, I know that is personally true, when I visited there in 2002. :devilgrin:

:lol:

Yes, it's a bit unfair for the girls, though. :(
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LWpianistin
Aug 2 2006, 09:51 AM
why are there male and female only schools??


To distract the gay students so they can't study, and get a crappy education.
It is a big discriminatory plot against us.

:veryangry:


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Aug 2 2006, 09:16 AM
Also, most universities like to pride themselves on their openness and tolerance, and I doubt having sexual orientation-specific dorms- no matter what their reasons- would earn them quite a lot of backlash.

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. :blink:
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Aug 2 2006, 02:19 PM
Optimistic
Aug 2 2006, 09:16 AM
Also, most universities like to pride themselves on their openness and tolerance, and I doubt having sexual orientation-specific dorms- no matter what their reasons- would earn them quite a lot of backlash.

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. :blink:

Whoops!! That shouldn't say "I doubt," it should say "I think"!!!
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
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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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Optimistic
Aug 2 2006, 11:20 AM
sue
Aug 2 2006, 02:19 PM
Optimistic
Aug 2 2006, 09:16 AM
Also, most universities like to pride themselves on their openness and tolerance, and I doubt having sexual orientation-specific dorms- no matter what their reasons- would earn them quite a lot of backlash.

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. :blink:

Whoops!! That shouldn't say "I doubt," it should say "I think"!!!

:lol: I 'read' think, not doubt, Opti!!
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I give up. Would someone please show me how to make text with a line going through it? Thanks!

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Substitute straight brackets [] for curly ones {}.

{s}Strike{/s} Through

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Using a code like
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[s]this[/s]


...turns into this.

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Optimistic
Aug 2 2006, 10:58 AM
LWpianistin
Aug 2 2006, 01:51 PM

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.

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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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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Nina
Aug 2 2006, 04:40 PM
Optimistic
Aug 2 2006, 10:58 AM
LWpianistin
Aug 2 2006, 01:51 PM

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.

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.


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.

I feel Bryn Mawr, Smith, and Mount Holyoke have discriminated against me and I'm going to sue them I agree same sex schools should have a place in the education system.

Daniel

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Nina
Aug 2 2006, 08:40 PM


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.


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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Aug 3 2006, 05:04 AM
Nina
Aug 2 2006, 08:40 PM


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.


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

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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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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