<p>Aaaand the not so clever troll strikes again. </p>
<p>OP, don't worry about your roommate being gay, it doesn't really matter. If him bringing a guy over is going to bother you tell him and you can work something out. Maybe you'll get lucky and he'll have tons of hot girl friends, maybe not, either way it isn't going to be a bad thing.</p>
<p>Tennisfan88, despite the sarcasm, I feel bad for you. Request a transfer, talk to the residential life office and explain the situation telling them you feel uncomfortable. I'm sure you can get things switched around. Make your personal concerns a priority over the PC notion of being "tolerant."</p>
<p>People seem to forget that gay people have taste. </p>
<p>Gay people do not lust over any and every member of the same sex. If one exhibits such archaic brands of homophobia, chances are said gay person won't have much interest in you in the first place. Don't worry about it!</p>
<p>alittlebird, i completely agree. gay people usually want nothing to do with straight people sexually ... since there's no chance haha.</p>
<p>Simple tip to improving your forum experience:
"This message is hidden because oh_really is on your ignore list." </p>
<p>But like I've said, even if the guy is gay it isn't going to matter. If he's an idiot he would have been an idiot if he were straight and if he's an alright guy he'd have been an alright guy if he were straight. Just set the boundaries youa all are comfortable with (you'd be doing this with a straight roommate too) and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>if a gay guy can room with a straight guy then why can't I room with a girl?</p>
<p>Exactly. What everyone is failing to realize is that it's not weird/bigoted to want a roommate who isn't sexually attracted to your gender. If I arrived at college the first day and I had a random roomate of the opposite sex, I'd freak out. No one wants that awkwardness. </p>
<p>Oh and Jeremybeach, nice incorrect generalization. As a straight male who has experienced attempted sexual assault by a gay man, I take offense to your remarks.</p>
<p>That analogy does not make sense. If you roomed with a girl then both of you would have the potential to be sexually attracted to eachother. In a gay/straight room only one has the potential to be sexually attracted to the other.</p>
<p>'If you roomed with a girl then both of you would have the potential to be sexually attracted to eachother. In a gay/straight room only one has the potential to be sexually attracted to the other."</p>
<p>There's still sexual attraction potential which doesn't belong with random roomate assignments.</p>
<p>It'd be a learning experience, something everyone could certainly grow from. oh really is taking an incredibly immature approach. I think colleges in general should be more open about such issues. Why not have coed dorm mates? This is the 21st century, not the 1950s.</p>
<p>Oh_Really, does it surprise you to know that the majority of straight females have found another female sexually attractive? In fact, a study showed that females were aroused EQUALLY by gay, straight, and lesbian porn. Sexuality is a lot more fluid than people think. So should all women room in singles? It doesn't matter whether you have a gay or straight roommate...what matters is respecting boundaries. It seems like obviously your boundaries weren't respected, so you came to the conversation with bias.</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure they will never have co-ed roomates b/c of the POSSIBILITY of sexual assault or harassment.</p>
<p>Actually, there are a lot of schools that give people the option of gender neutral housing, and I don't know of any cases where a school has done away with it because of problems with assault or harassment.</p>
<p>If rooming with someone who's sexually attracted to people of your gender can't possibly work... who are bi and pansexual people supposed to live with, exactly? Trying to segregate housing by gender doesn't really make sense in the end.</p>
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<p>exactly, so let me room with a girl, or preferably 2 or 3 girls.</p>
<p>well yea im sure they would maybe allow them to all room together if they were all already friends but i can see why most schools dont have random co-ed room assignments, too many possibilites for headaches.</p>
<p>(notice how im trying to veer this topic away from my original post)</p>
<p>ha hahaha ga</p>
<p>I support co-ed rooming assignments. It's unfair to straight couples for gay couples to be rooming together.</p>
<p>I dont know what I would do If I had gay roomate.</p>
<p>Its likely to happen...but I would be weirded out</p>
<p>It's pretty normal to be weirded out by something you're not used to. I'm weirded out by having a straight roommate too but hey, it's part of going out of your comfort zone.</p>
<p>Smooth, rugbywinger. I'm sure you'd just love the complications that would ensue when your roommates started hating you because you were hitting on them all the time. In practice, I don't think you'd actually go after your roommate, big talk on the internet notwithstanding. That's why gender neutral housing usually works--most people aren't dumb enough to try and date someone they're stuck living with, or live with someone they're dating. Not to mention familiarity breeding contempt...</p>