Just call me an antique

Posted: March 9, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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You know it takes a lot of money and an ivy league education to say something this stupid:

Junior Emma Sloan told the Yale Daily News that the idea that men and women are necessarily attracted to the opposite sex is “antiquated.”

This quote is in the subtext of deciding “whether Yale should allow juniors and seniors to live with roommates of the opposite sex, an accommodation demanded in the name of transgender students.”

This is a Nelson award winner and then some. It deserves the full Nelson.

By an odd coincidence the youngest told me yesterday that he has a girl. They have been texting each other quite a bit this weekend. I think I won’t let Emma decide if they should be allowed in his room together upstairs unsupervised.

Comments
  1. Smithers says:

    But if your son were gay, it would be other boys you’d have to keep him from being alone with. That, I believe, was Ms. Sloan’s point, and if you read the Yale Daily News article from which Ms. Mac Donald extracted the quote, I think that becomes pretty clear: http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27699.

    A common argument in favor of gender-neutral housing (the one Ms. Mac Donald was disparaging) is that gay students should have the option of living with people they aren’t attracted to–a decision which would, in fact, be a mature one on their part. So although you may not agree with Ms. Sloan’s point of view or sympathize with the argument, it’s not necessarily nonsensical.