This story reminds me of why I moved off-campus at the first opportunity when I was in college nearly 20 years ago. It’s been my experience that RA’s are among the most humorless, uptight, crypto-fascist people you’ll find at a university community. They come by this honestly, as they are usually trained by the folks in Student Affairs, who are among the most humorless, uptight, crypto-fascist human beings you’ll find on the planet.
I’ll never forget the time an RA accused me of being homophobic. My crime? One of my buddies in the dorm jokingly F-bombed me and I responded with “geez, at least buy me dinner first!” Apparently that counted as homophobia in the all-knowing RA’s eyes. And that was in the mid-90s. I can only imagine what would happen these days if that exchange had taken place.
That’s odd, because I said “no thanks” to the F-Bomb, and nobody flipped out.