<p>I see a big difference for boys. There are still some who see it as “women’s work” who will grow up never helping around the house. Come on, I’m sure you know some of them…
Although I’m still astounded by an answer I got last summer from a boy who was leaving for college “You’re kidding right? I’m not going to do laundry, I’ll find a girl to do it for me surely?” </p>
<p>Is this thread fixed yet so we can post again?</p>
<p>YAY!! Wonder if all the “stuck” posts that didnt post can be put back into the thread??</p>
<p>^I will ask.</p>
<p>Thanks!! I just send you a request ;)</p>
<p>Stumbled across this article avout Davidson’s laundry service on a website called “reviewed.com” <a href=“Davidson College's Full-Service Laundry Gets Scrubbed - Reviewed”>http://laundry.reviewed.com/news/davidson-colleges-full-service-laundry-gets-scrubbed</a> Actually, the site is cvery helpful for the multiiple threads we have asking for infor on fridges, ovens, washer/dryers, etc.</p>
<p>In a related article, the U of Madrid banned men from doing laundry?? Huh?<a href=“College Under Fire for Banning Men From Doing Laundry - Reviewed”>http://laundry.reviewed.com/news/college-under-fire-for-banning-men-from-doing-laundry</a></p>
<p>Unbelievable, jym. From the article:</p>
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<p>You think???</p>
<p>Apparently men who use the washing machine on campus (all one of them) will be suspended (although they call it expulsion) from 15 days to three months. </p>
<p>So what do the “men” do for the women if they are doing all the laundry?</p>
<p>^exactly the type of situation that I was referring to when I spoke about gender equality and how doing laundry can do a lot of good to some boys. Didn’t know in Spain boys could be expelled for touching the washing machine… probably out of fear they’d be magically turned into women?</p>
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I totally agree. subcontracting situations should require further paperwork and justify exceptions - since there’s a number limit on them, H1Bs should be reserved to companies who had a great international intern and want to keep him/her, or have hard-to-fill positions that require specific skills and their #1 choice is not a citizen, etc. H1B already requires verification the international is going to be paid at a fair, market rate. The current H1B situation hurts companies’ competitivity by blocking reasonable requests and allowing the subcontractors to hog the visas, plus it sends thousands of US educated graduates who could help our economy, either to Canada (a Canadian official actually came to US campuses a couple months ago, telling STEM and critical language graduates “don’t bother with the crazy H1B system, Canada needs you and it’s no hassle to get a work permit and then on to become a permanent resident” - and apparently it worked.)</p>
<p>I’m always sorry to see a harmless perk disappear–and in this case it displaces workers, even if they are helped to find new jobs. Back in the stone age, my parents signed me up for “bulk laundry” and linen service my freshman year of college. It was pretty nice to have. Afterwards, I did my own laundry, but I didn’t notice any marked increase in my character as a result. As a young lawyer, I used to wash and iron my own shirts to save money. When I later started sending them out, I didn’t notice any decline in my character. My son washed his own clothes all through college–now that he’s in grad school in New York, and living in an apartment building with no laundry facilities, he’s taking his clothes to a “wash and fold” that’s not very expensive. I haven’t noticed any crumbling of his work ethic as a result–maybe that’s because he’s cooking for himself now.</p>
<p>Perhaps the service at Davidson was underutilized. That would be a good reason for getting rid of it.</p>
<p>My children had never done laundry when they went to college. I taught them in fifteen minutes, then I wrote out a list of rules about mixing colors, water temperature, and which clothes to hang dry. My son washes his clothes weekly and puts them in drawers. As far as I can tell, he has totally mastered laundry. My daughter doesn’t know which of her clothes are clean and which are dirty, there are balled-up clothes in her room everywhere, and her sheets probably don’t get washed the whole semester.</p>
<p>Attention to laundry has much more to do with individual personality than with gender. :)</p>
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Absolutely. Unless they went to Paris, Maine, GA, NY, TN, VA, IN, AK, IL, PA, WI, etc. Surely they have wonderful haute couture there.</p>
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<p>It is “a university in Madrid”, described as:</p>
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<p>Also, the article notes that the rule has existed for a while, from when the only washer was installed in a women’s dorm that men were then not allowed to enter.</p>
<p>Some time ago, there was a blurb in the New Yorker about a new trend in frequent 3-day trips to Paris, from Boston and NYC. (All before TSA, of course.) You can get there Sat am, leave midday Monday, be back in time for a good night’s sleep. </p>
<p>Imo, more problematic is that this tale of leaving clothes behind is so anecdotal. No reasonable person (leaving open that someone told cobrat about an unreasonable sort,) would do it repeatedly, just for next week’s clothes. As my kids would say, “so random.”</p>
<p>I’ve always done my own laundry. Learning to cook, clean, and other basic skills were just part of my education in high school. I don’t really know why it’s such a big deal among many of my peers who act like it’s some huge drag or seem to have some kind of fear of washing machines. Doing the laundry should be part of life, like eating breakfast. Just do it once a week and be done with it. That said, I might just start a laundry business at some of the local colleges and take advantage of this great fear of laundry. I didn’t know this was such a national issue.</p>
<p>Whatever school it is, ucbalum, its absurd that the men can’t use the washers. Ridiculous.</p>