karenpadi
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I am a young (27), single woman, and I am planning a scuba trip for myself and I hope to go to somewhere warm for about a week to dive. Because I am traveling by myself, I will either need to get a random roommate or pay a supplement. I have no problem with either option . . . as long as the roommate is female. I think of this is a basic safety and privacy need.
One of the outfits I am researching pretty much told me that I'd have to be "flexible" because it looked like there's more men than women on the trip. I immediately offered to pay a single supplement if a female roommate wasn't available. I thought this was more than reasonable.
Based on what some of the other people said following my comment, I felt like maybe I had gone too far. I was quite concerned about this so I spoke with some (guy) friends of mine whom I trust to tell me when I'm crazy. Well, they thought I was crazy. Immediately, I felt like I was being labeled as a man-hater who couldn't "be more mature." They think that because the guys on the trip are there "for the same reason" and paying the same amount of money that I can safely assume they are decent guys whom I can trust to share a bedroom.
Like most women, I have my reasons to be wary of strange men but I am taking this too far?
Am I the unreasonable one here for insisting on a same-sex roommate or paying a single supplement rather than rooming with a strange man for a week in a foreign country?
One of the outfits I am researching pretty much told me that I'd have to be "flexible" because it looked like there's more men than women on the trip. I immediately offered to pay a single supplement if a female roommate wasn't available. I thought this was more than reasonable.
Based on what some of the other people said following my comment, I felt like maybe I had gone too far. I was quite concerned about this so I spoke with some (guy) friends of mine whom I trust to tell me when I'm crazy. Well, they thought I was crazy. Immediately, I felt like I was being labeled as a man-hater who couldn't "be more mature." They think that because the guys on the trip are there "for the same reason" and paying the same amount of money that I can safely assume they are decent guys whom I can trust to share a bedroom.
Like most women, I have my reasons to be wary of strange men but I am taking this too far?
Am I the unreasonable one here for insisting on a same-sex roommate or paying a single supplement rather than rooming with a strange man for a week in a foreign country?