Mixed-gender dorm rooms are gaining acceptance

<p>this sounds soo hot lol</p>

<p>I would much prefer this type of housing. I am a bi female, but I am engaged. So there would be no “funny business” if I were living with guys just like there is now when I’m living with girls. </p>

<p>Guys would be much easier to live with IMO as I have a pretty masculine personality. I spend most of my time on the guys’ floor anyway. </p>

<p>I think that college age students should have the choice of who they want to live with, we don’t need to be nannied by the school.</p>

<p>I hope that even by my time (in another 2 years) this FIRMLY remains by CHOICE ONLY. Has anyone ever thought of cultural issues? So many people raised in conservative families may not want coed dorms, let alone coed dorm rooms! Sorry to say, but this idea horrifies me (if I had to live like this) but for others, well what business is it of mine? I guess, the conservative in me is kind of shocked at the idea.</p>

<p>Emerson’s gender neutral housing requires an application with a written statement as to why you would like to be considered for that housing arrangement. It is not available to Freshmen, and there are only 60 total spaces. It is absolutely not assigned randomly, and “couples” are discouraged from trying to obtain these rooms together. They were definitely trying to accomodate transgender students when they established the new option.</p>

<p>Putturani, it will always be an option. Or there will always be an option for those who want single-gender housing.</p>

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<p>i would not want to room with a guy who thought this way, lol. no offense. i think this sounds great for LBGT people (for whom this whole roommate thing can be unnecessarily awkward), and as long as it’s only an option and not forced upon you (which it never is) i see no problem with it. i probably wouldn’t choose it, but that’s just because i would prefer to live with a girl roommate.</p>

<p>Well, then who do I room with if I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body?</p>

<p>^ Well, whoever you wish. That’s the beauty of being able to pick what gender you room with.</p>

<p>I really don’t understand all these what-ifs. You room with who you want to.</p>

<p>At your age, you’re going to have a lot of urges. You’re going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you <em>will</em> get chlamydia… and die.</p>

<p>^hahaha Mean Girls! that should be on a plaque in front of all gender-neutral housing.</p>

<p>(And before someone flames me, yes, I’m kidding.)</p>

<p>I’m with rge on this one–room with who you want too. This allows people to opt for the situation they’re most comfortable with. It’s an OPTion; no one’s forcing anyone into anything.</p>

<p>pacificvista-bahahahahahahhaahahah :)</p>

<p>i don’t think it’s a bad idea, as long as the student opts into it.</p>

<p>also, the limit does not exist. :)</p>

<p>My roommate looked up the home number of one of our floormates in the directory because she is mean to us and called her mom and said she was planned parenthood calling with her test results and left a message with the actual number to the ann arbor planned parenthood. That is the last time I suggest we watch mean girls after arguing with our floormates.</p>

<p>“Pitzer housing applications ask whether students prefer a roommate to be woman, man, “other,” or have no preference.”</p>

<p>Other??</p>

<p>^ Other is people that don’t comfortably identify as male or female. Whether they are transgendered or for whatever reason.</p>

<p>Some people don’t fit into our strict binary system of gender classification.</p>

<p>Or choose not to.</p>

<p>I’m sorry, I could not go to a school that offered that as a gender choice. But then again, I’m stuck in the Middle Ages, so I don’t know anything.</p>

<p>You aren’t willing to go to a school if it does not require people to classify themselves as male or female?</p>

<p>I get being uncomfortable around people who do that, sure. But why would a school giving that as an option be a deal breaker?</p>

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<p>It’s not a choice and it’s not a new phenomenon. For example, many Native Americans have deep traditions of two-spirits. People who were born genetically male/female but identified with the other gender. </p>

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<p>Because, quite honestly, some people are just that intolerant.</p>

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At my school, singles are $3000 more than doubles. Why must a transgendered person pay more money just to feel comfortable/not be harassed by other students? While I agree it isn’t a necessity and sure the person can live in a double or triple with the sex they were born as, most people aren’t too accepting about this kind of stuff and I’m pretty sure that transsexuals (as well as some genderqueers) wouldn’t want it obvious that they were born opposite to what they are presenting as. In places like southern USA, I’d think that it’s more of a necessity to prevent hate crimes.</p>

<p>When I first heard these coed rooming discussions, I was assuming it applied to two people who would be squashed together in the normal two-person dorm room. However, am I now to understand schools don’t even offer coed housing unless each person has their own separate sleeping room? (BTW, I am a parent = Old Person.)</p>

<p>All I can say to the students of today is: Must Be Nice</p>

<p>In the olden days dorm life meant living together in a tiny breadbox, with no maid service, refrigerators/microwaves, televisions, wifi, air-conditioning, or wall-to-wall carpet. Heck, I could probably room peacefully with Richard Nixon under today’s conditions.</p>

<p>lol</p>

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<p>So you are telling me that the transgendered community is completely and certainly scientifically understood? Hardly. In addition, the question of what constitutes gender is unresolved, which is obviously at the root of what it means to be transgendered.</p>

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<p>That is correct. And by your definition, I have no problem saying that I am intolerant. Worse in your mind, I don’t even care.</p>

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<p>Then the problem isn’t the rooming situation, it’s the open discrimination in the community. In addition, the problem you’re describing is not specific to transgendered students. That’s what I’m saying – discomfort, etc. are not limited to any one group.</p>