Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Men in Cohousing (was "Call for journalist interviewing cohousers")

[Dane Laverty (danelaverty]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:27 AM, G/P Looney-Burman <
burloon [at] fresnocohousing.org> wrote:

>
> Our counter to that ("You always have privacy when you want it") was never
> really accepted or believed
>

Kind of off topic, but I find that when I tell people about cohousing, this
is their response too. I explain how it provides both private and public
space, but people's brains immediately flip the cult/commune switch and
can't comprehend that it's not that different from having your own
home/condo.

That said, I'm afraid cohousing has kind of brought that on itself by going
with "cohousing" as a moniker. The term immediately conjures up images of
people living communally together in a house. If it were called something
else (I don't know what...I'll have to think up some terms), I think it
would be easier to sell the idea to socially cautious Americans.

D