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ToDaZeD Culchah WTF?!?

Natural and Logical Consequences of feminism + metrosexuality sitting in a tree dorm...

Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut’s Wesleyan University. But they say there’s no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.

They have set up their beds side-by-side like Lucy and Ricky in “I Love Lucy,” and avert their eyes when one of them is changing clothes.

So where’d Little Ricky come from?  Bloomies?

said Youngdahl, a 20-year-old sophomore. But “once you actually live in it, it doesn’t actually turn into a big deal."

Sophomoric, indeed.

I wonder if this is connected?

...college students today enter a low hook-up culture when they leave the classroom. In case you don’t know, a hook-up is a brief sexual encounter between two partners who don’t necessarily know each other before and who don’t necessarily want to know each other after. And it’s free. The sort of transient sex that once was available to men only for money can now be had, without paying, from college women – as long as the man is a fellow student and minimally artful about his approach.

...But most students also believe that “everyone does it,” even if the individual student, for some reason, cannot locate a partner. Thus an active minority sets the tone and makes hooking up a “culture.” When there are no sexual boundaries, either official or informal, the standard becomes the extreme, and all students feel the pressure to appear more promiscuous than they are. The traditional double standard of sexual conduct – more restrictive for women than for men – has been replaced by the single standard of the predatory male.

Not just here, either.  Is this part of the “Lipstick up China for the Olympics” campaign?

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Posted by Claire on 05/05 at 07:01 AM
  1. Here’s your <a href="http://curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com/2008/05/mfcs-meter.html">perfect fucking score. smile

    Posted by Rodger Schultz  on  05/06/08  at  03:47 AM
  2. Wow.  I never got a perfect score before…


    Fuck YEAH!!!

    [dammit.]

    Posted by Claire  on  05/07/08  at  05:37 AM
  3. Yur the best commenter ever!

    Posted by Rodger Schultz  on  05/07/08  at  09:58 AM

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