"Hi my name is Wanda. I'm your new roommate. Got any more cookies?"
Posted on 03/27/2010 8:14:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kayla Eland and Lindon Pronto are roommates at Pitzer College in California. They, along with students at a growing number of colleges and universities, are pioneering a new trend – co-ed roommates.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Eland and Pronto “are not a couple and neither is gay.” The paper adds, “They are just compatible roommates in a new, sometimes controversial, dormitory option known as gender-neutral housing that is gaining support at some colleges in California and across the nation.”
The rise of co-ed dorms is the inevitable result of a breakdown in all rationality about sex, gender, and sexuality. In this case, the movement is being pushed by activists who are all too clear about their agenda.
The paper reports:
Pitzer, which began its program in the fall of 2008, is among about 50 U.S. schools with the housing choice, according to Jeffrey Chang, who co-founded the National Student Genderblind Campaign in 2006 to encourage gender-mixed rooms. Participating schools include UC Riverside, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, Dartmouth, Sarah Lawrence, Haverford, Wesleyan and the University of Michigan.
The trend toward “genderblind” campus housing comes after previous acceptance of co-ed dorms, generally with separate floors for men and women. Later, students demanded integration on the same halls, but with students of the same sex sharing a room. Now, co-ed rooms and “gender-neutral” campus housing are the next, and presumably final step.
Reporter Larry Gordon explained that the emergence of mixed-gender roommates came after college and university administrators worked to meet the requests of gay, bisexual, and transgender students - some of whom preferred a roommate of the opposite gender. At Harvey Mudd College (like Pitzer, one of the Claremont Colleges), gender-neutral housing started last fall. It was intended for gay and transgender students, but other students took advantage of the option.
Parents cannot veto the decision, Harvey Mudd officials said. Students are “encouraged” to discuss the issue with family, but parents have no right to prevent their offspring from sharing a dorm room with a person of the opposite gender. Even though several of the students interviewed for the article insisted that their relationships were not sexual, administrators admitted that they would be unable to prevent roommates with a sexual relationship from living together.
Jeffrey Chang put the case in straightforward terms: “College students are adults . . . They have every single right to choose the person they feel most comfortable living with.”
Guy Gerbick, dean of residential life at Harvey Mudd College, makes the case in even stronger - and more alarming - terms. After explaining that he could not make an issue of roommates having sex, he added: “If we are going into a post-gender world, then the regulation of private behavior is just not practical.”
All of this adds up to a perfect jumble of moral confusion. Consider all that is mixed-up here. First, we have schools collapsing under the logic of gender rebellion. Instead of respecting boundaries, they remove them as a gesture of supposed tolerance and sensitivity. Second, we have students insisting that there is nothing remotely odd or sexualized about two heterosexual students of opposite genders living in the same small space. That is both unbelievable and deeply sad. Third, we have activists and administrators lecturing parents that they have no right to resist all this. When Jeffrey Chang insists that college students are adults who “have every single right to choose the person they feel most comfortable living with,” he assumes, probably rightly, that many parents will just accept that argument at face value.
This is nuts. If these students are adults with such rights, let them pay the steep bills at Harvey Mudd and Pitzer colleges. What self-respecting parent would cave to this logic, or to the lectures from college administrators that they have no right to intervene? Colleges - and college students - get away with this insanity because America has too many parents with too little sense or backbone.
To cap it all off, Dean Gerbick adds this revelatory comment: “If we are going into a post-gender world, then the regulation of private behavior is just not practical.” True enough. A post-gender world represents the eclipse of personal morality and the regulation of private behavior. In this simple sentence, Dean Gerbick reveals a total moral revolution - and he seems proud to be leading and facilitating the revolution.
The Christian worldview requires an affirmation of gender as part of God’s intention in creation and as a central aspect of the goodness of God’s design. The “genderblind” movement represents a rebellion against this central premise, and “gender-neutral” student housing is the perfect picture of this revolt against both creation and common sense.
Lindon Pronto, the young man who shares a dorm room with Kayla Eland, insists that the whole thing is no big deal. “As far as I’m concerned, a roommate is a roommate,” he said. Those words represent nothing less than a moral revolution. Is that revolution coming soon to a campus near you?
I can’t see what could go worng.
How sick. When I was in college we had seperate dorms for men and women with very restrictive visitation privileges.
My niece tried this with a male friend and it was a disaster. He assumed that sharing a room meant more than it did and ended up with her in an apartment off campus and a restraining order against him.
>>How sick. When I was in college we had seperate dorms for men and women with very restrictive visitation privileges.<<
Obviously many of us went to college too soon.
College was fun.
Any truth to the rumor that Mr. Pronto’s real first name is “Siempre?”
And that simply isn't arguable. Otherwise, raise the age of consent to 21.
Social conservatives spend far too much time on these types of unwinnable battles and not nearly enough on the one defining moral issue of our time - the utter depravity of entire subculture's trying to live at the state's (meaning everyone else's) expense.
Liberals-—masters of disasters! With the new ObamasCare students can not only default on their loans but also receive free healthcare to treat their STD’s and taxpayer funded abortions! Party on students—oh, and never foget to vote for your DemoRats who bestowed upon you these magnificent benefits. /
SICKOS!
"Hi my name is Wanda. I'm your new roommate. Got any more cookies?"
I can’t think of anything.
No Fat Chicks!
Ok, I'm only kidding.
No Ugly Chicks!
Maybe when I'm in a hole I should stop digging.
Like, maybe you got a sister?
“Parents cannot veto the decision” Perhaps not, but parents can sure stop paying the bills. And, if the students are the adults they claim to be, this shouldn’t be a problem for them since they will be paying their own way through college.
And parents have every right not to co-sign for those student loans.
Same here.
This in sheer insanity.
Yet another sign of the culture of corruption, sleaze, anything goes, 0bama regime's total destruction of American values.
At Texas A&M (attended ‘84 to ‘89) in the dorm if had opposite sex in the room after 10 pm on weekday (12 am on Fri/Sat)... would be written-up by the R.A. After 2 or 3 write-ups you had to find a new place to live.
With my luck I would hear “Hi, I am Ralphie. Can we redecorate?”
And along the same topics, now that my kids have finished college, from what I saw over the last few years, I think that dealing with college-age women on a daily basis is a great way to discourage young men from having to do anything with college-age women. It wasn't always that way, but the sense of entitlement and superiority I saw among young women in college recently would have discouraged me. I would have looked for a shopgirl with more brains and less attitude.
Jeffrey Chang is an idiot.
When people leave school, they are free to chose anyone they like to live with as well, but that doesn't mean they share a room with a woman who is not their girl friend or wife. What the heck do you do if your female room mate is naked? Unless this Jeffrey Chang is a girly man, gay or impotent as well as being stupid?
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