Down the Ivy-Covered Lane
January 31, 2010
A male high school senior I know recently visited an elite liberal arts college. The college matched him up with a student who was responsible for showing him around. The school arranged for him to spend the night in the student’s dorm room. The student was a girl.
She made known her intentions during the night. Was this part of the college tour? He declined to sleep with her. They spent the rest of the night talking about her problems with other men.
America’s colleges are in the business of prostituting women in a thousand subtle and overt ways.
BGC writes:
This reminds me of when, in 1980, I went to Harvard Medical School as a (male) elective student from my British university, and was pretty disturbed to find that my residence (Vanderbilt Hall) had mixed bathrooms with just a flimsy and inadequate shower curtain to protect my privacy.
At that time the UK had mixed halls of residence but with boys and girls on separate floors with separate bathrooms.
Since then mixed hospital wards have become normal (because they are cheaper); again with flimsy and inadequate curtains as the only concession to dignity.
Somehow, people’s feelings on this don’t seem to matter at all – being interpreted as just evidence of them having ‘hang-ups’.
Laura writes:
Mixed hospital rooms are an abomination. As with coed dorms with mixed lavatories, the ordinary person feels very uncomfortable with it. These practices break down male and female relations. They don’t improve them.
By the way, I have visited the college mentioned in the above post. It is one of this country’s most famous liberal arts schools. (I don’t mention it by name because I don’t want to embarrass the boy involved.) When I took a tour there with my son, we were told by the pretty student leading us around that a separate dorm was for “those who do not declare themselves one gender or another.” I think she meant for women who consider themselves men and men who consider themselves women. Why not a separate dorm for those who declare themselves angels or gods?
Lydia Sherman writes:
I did not know it had gotten as bad as this, but I was very concerned when I noticed a Christian college using pretty young girls to recruit the young men and show them around the college campus. They hired handsome, outgoing young men to phone the female prospects and invite them to a weekend college review in hopes of enrolling them. I saw several people getting loans to go to college, based on their infatuation with the recruiter.
Laura writes:
I don’t mean in the case I mentioned that the college meant for the female student to proposition the man, but it certainly facilitated that and the entire atmosphere it creates leads a woman down that path.