Women-friendly campuses

celloguy
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:17:05 +0000

calmom, my D avoids computers/college webpages and directories/chat rooms/LJ/CC and so forth; it’s all part of my job and my interests so I tune in – therefore I know more about her school than she does at this point. This feels a little weird to me too, but so be it.

Re your point about straight/lesbian friends – that’s not quite the same as being bureaucratically assigned to share a dorm room. You pick your friends. Most colleges try to assign compatible roomies – they ask about music preferences, neatness, quiet hours and such, but in the end you’re stuck with each other except in those rare cases where first-years can get a single. In D’s case, she’s just as shy around women as around men, so none of this is likely to matter.