Me and a friend have started attending Brown this summer for a program, and are worried about the coed showers. I already know there’s all the reasons for/against/neutral whatever. I’m not looking for someone to tell me to get used to it, please. I just want to know if there’s a way I could talk to somebody or maybe set one of those votes to separate the showers on our floor while we’re there. I’ve heard other colleges can do that.
If there are co-ed showers, they are stalls with a private area behinds door or curtain where you can hang up your robe and towel, then shower. It isn’t like one big shower room. You won’t be undressed in front of others in the shower room.
Talk to the RA to see if there is any possibility to make any of the bathrooms non-coed. When my daughter was a freshman in Keeney, all of the bathrooms on her floor started out gender-neutral but then one was changed to women-only, presumably because someone requested it.
I agree, this is something to discuss with the RA. I assume you are talking about a building where there are multiple shower stalls inside a single bathroom, right? I think you’ll have a very uphill battle if you’re in a pembroke dorm with individual bathrooms and you’re trying to make it so that the opposite gender can’t be waiting outside the room for you to finish.
I believe the dorms are single-sex by floor for the Summer@Brown programs, so this shouldn’t be an issue.
If you talk tot he RA and tell her that you require a safe space to shower, the university will accommodate you.