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Tango0126 Mar 2014 9:40 p.m. PST

"The new unisex dormitories have been trialled at a military base in northern Norway, with each room putting two women together with four men.

According to Ulla-Britt Lilleaas, co-author of the report "The Army: the vanguard, rear guard and battlefield of equality", the women reported that sharing a room helped make them "one of the boys".

"To them there was nothing strange about the unisex rooms," she wrote. "They had entered a common mode where gender stereotypes had disappeared, or at least they were less obvious." …"
Full article here.
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Armand

R Brown26 Mar 2014 10:07 p.m. PST

Her name is Ulla?
Certainly no gender stereo types in Crimea

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse27 Mar 2014 7:02 a.m. PST

There certainly will be some "night maneuvers" going on … for sure ! huh?

emckinney27 Mar 2014 8:57 a.m. PST

I was in a co-ed college dorm floor with co-ed bathrooms (not bedrooms, though). One week of giggles, followed by months of not caring.

One romance on the floor. AFAIK, they're still married.

(Not sure that his parents were happy about it, a nice Muslim boy from Atlanta being seduced by a Catholic schoolgirl from Idaho!)

(Wildly off-topic reminiscence: her Mac had the biggest hard drive anyone had ever seen. Her father worked for HP in Idaho and his lab had built it custom--they didn't make HDDs for Macs!)

Tgunner27 Mar 2014 11:29 p.m. PST

Seesh emc, way to geek up a potentially salacious thread! Legion 4 points out booty call potentials and you're geeking out about some chic's hard drive. Way to go… 8P

tuscaloosa28 Mar 2014 4:15 a.m. PST

Ha!

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse28 Mar 2014 7:29 a.m. PST

I know my buddy commanded a QM/S&T Company with floors alternating Male-Female … When most of your troops are in their late teens to early 20s … and human nature kicks in … well you know what happened behind closed barracks doors when night falls … or before ! Glad I was an Infantry commander ! huh?

Tango0128 Mar 2014 11:22 a.m. PST

Great videos you can made there! (smile).

Amicalement
Armand

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