tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post3146181949536862391..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too. From the NYTimes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53572454265820717392013-07-15T09:19:05.275-04:002013-07-15T09:19:05.275-04:00I was at Penn to get a graduate degree from 1980-8...I was at Penn to get a graduate degree from 1980-82.<br /><br />Somehow I missed this entire scene. . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-66343188379607303832013-07-14T17:35:48.417-04:002013-07-14T17:35:48.417-04:00Hey, some people find it hard to make new friends....Hey, some people find it hard to make new friends. They need to get laid too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84596655591862619882013-07-14T16:40:59.654-04:002013-07-14T16:40:59.654-04:00Maybe it's because I'm gay, came out in co...Maybe it's because I'm gay, came out in college, and had my obligatory (at that time) slutty phase, but -- I don't see why I would care that girls get laid, or even have regular arrangements to get laid? <br /><br />What troubles me a bit about this is the emphasis on alcohol, which inhibits decision making abilities. Sex is physically dangerous and I'm not sure that college Professor Chiltepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10087270705989845484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-78019148989746598972013-07-14T16:03:29.626-04:002013-07-14T16:03:29.626-04:00What really gets me about this article is that non...What really gets me about this article is that none of this sounds at all like fun. They seem to work like mad (which I did in college, with great relish), then engage in their 'social' activities as if they are work (can't just belong to a society, got to have a leadership role, c.v. points etc.), then see drinking - not DRINKING, getting DRUNK - and sex as their 'relaxation'Grumpy Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02896982515031823267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40194061061029130212013-07-14T12:36:56.633-04:002013-07-14T12:36:56.633-04:00I want to think my students are going to make it, ...I want to think my students are going to make it, but I read things like this and think, "No, everyone is too stupid for words." I'm really not an old crank about this generation. I have moments, of course, and individual students baffle me, but this article just made me sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-51145491249619862632013-07-14T11:05:31.287-04:002013-07-14T11:05:31.287-04:00Some of this is old news, some of this I understoo...Some of this is old news, some of this I understood. What I don't get is the "having sex with someone I don't like." Really? "Friends with benefits" I understand. I saw it in college way back when. But "people I can't stand to be with with benefits"? That one bewilders me.<br /><br /><br />Oh, and the graphic with the coke bottle reminded me of the old Middle-Aged and Morosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046076243513948921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-12643694659907424812013-07-14T09:56:39.275-04:002013-07-14T09:56:39.275-04:00Buried lede: Women said universally that hookups c...Buried lede: <i>Women said universally that hookups could not exist without alcohol, because they were for the most part too uncomfortable to pair off with men they did not know well without being drunk.</i><br /><br />To me, because of the consent issue, this should have been in bold flashing red at the top of the article. <br /><br />All in all I don't think the causal sex is so much of a Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08119100121479821544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57158958908559276972013-07-14T05:01:26.369-04:002013-07-14T05:01:26.369-04:00Is this any of our business? Are our students'...Is this any of our business? Are our students' private lives really any of our concern? They'd better not be, since in loco parentis was abandoned in the '60s. By the '70s, when I was an undergraduate, everything in this article was in full bloom, including the caveat that only a minority of students were as promiscuous as the press likes them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com