>>>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/29/pub-navy-combats-critics-fight-let-women-submarines/
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>>>So now there will be womens' quarters and mixed bathrooms.
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>>IOW, it'll be like any college dorm. What's the big deal?
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>>Tamar
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>Yeah - you're right.
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>Most college dorms are combat environments where the students are locked in for several months at a time w/o being able to look or walk outside, w/o communications with the outside, and with the possibility of never going home because the students are defending freedom for their country.
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>Most college dorms have hot bunks that people share and bathrooms the size of tiny broomclosets that dozens of people share.
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>You're right.

My point, of course, was that college kids live in coed dorms with coed bathrooms and the world doesn't seem to have come to an end. I'm pretty submariners can handle it, too, especially since I suspect they (all navy personnel) actually get some training in living with members of the opposite sex.

Tamar