Kayla Eland, left, and Lindon Pronto say sharing a dorm room hasn't been awkward. The mixing of genders is a generational issue, Pronto says, and "Over the years, this division between men and women, which was so big, is slowly closing." (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times / March 9, 2010)Mixed-gender dorm rooms are gaining acceptance
Omo Naija said...
DV......I am slowly coming around to your persistent meme on the asexualization of the Western male.I speak for myself. As an 18yr old male in college the only girls I hung around were those I slept with, fancied but never clicked and became friends or had friends I was interested in.
Maybe homeboy has a masterplan.....she and all her friends are all for grabs!
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I have mixed feelings about this simply because of possible sexual tensions that might develop and distract the students. Or the fact that it puts women in a more vulnerable position. On the other hand, college kids are adults and if they feel comfortable rooming with whoever, then why not? What I don't get is how this ties into the irrelevance of school?
DV......I am slowly coming around to your persistent meme on the asexualization of the West male.
I speak for myself. As an 18yr old male in college the only girls I hung around were those I slept with, fancied but never clicked and became friends or had friends I was interested in.
Maybe homeboy has a masterplan.....she and all her friends are all for grabs!
That should read..... Western male.
Omo...
Not asexualization
But turnin' Henry in tuh homo...
He scrawny, real tight clothes
cryin', I don't want no mo'...
All this manly responsibility,
Got dood callin' home
Putta lil tail n the dorm room
Now the dawg ain't gonna roam...
Gonna b lead, tempted
Given the bone
Now lil Henry...
U stay over dare all uh-lone...
Emasculated...
Now the dood owned...
I lived with my female cousin in college for a semester out of necessity. Of course, it was 2 of us in a three bedroom apartment. Obviously no sexual tension because we were family, but it was wack living with a woman and seeing her go through all of those moods, etc. Why the hell would I live with a woman I wasn't screwin' or wasn't my family member??
But she did bring me plenty of her fine ass friends for dinner. . .
But you don't hear me though!
Black boys are too feminized
"More than racism, the absence of father figures is the main problem holding back black kids in school"
Tony Sewell
guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 March 2010 22.30
"More than racism, I now firmly believe that the main problem holding back black boys academically is their over-feminised upbringing. First, because with the onset of adolescence there is no male role model to provide guidance and lock down the destructive instincts that exist within all males. Second, in the absence of such a figure a boy will seek out an alternative. This will usually be among dominant male figures, all too often found in gangs. This is the space where there is a kind of hierarchy, a ritual and, of course, a sense of belonging.
We have wasted years, and lives, looking in the wrong direction as to the causes of crime and education failure. We've had endless studies attempting to prove institutional racism – while all along our boys' psychological needs weren't met."
We've had endless studies attempting to prove institutional racism – while all along our boys' psychological needs weren't met."-Wax
All I can contribute to that to extend the conversation is an exclamation mark.
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