The prom’s status quo is out the fucking window now!
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“It’s just sickening,” read a typical comment on USA Today’s website. “When I was in high school, the prom Queen was the prettiest girl in the freekin’ school and the King was the captain of the football team. That’s the way it should be. This school should have police tape around it: ‘Crime Scene’.”
That’s pathetic.
The only thing that becomes a little awkward with this is perhaps the King being forced to dance with him.
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It is rather awkward for the Prom King- two women dancing together is not particularly odd or unusual, it often happens in folk dancing where there are fewer men than women. But at a prom… well, it would make more sense to allow them each to choose their own partner to dance with. I’m not sorry we didn’t have a Prom Queen and King, I don’t know if they ever have them at UK proms.
The comment about the prettiest girl and captain of the football team is pretty bad, but some of the comments below are also just as bad- long discussions about homosexuality being an “illness” and then people countering that with religion being a mental illness requiring treatment. Although such news sites do tend to attract people (well, the internet as a whole, too, but news sites moreso) who like to get on their soapbox, particularly the militant of both the religious and atheist variety.
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But you’d want the choice of girl as well: what if it was a real munter, or your ex etc?
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Despite not agreeing with the whole Football Jock and cheerleader bit, we still are a superficial enough country that Prom King and Queen can only mean male and female respectively, we haven’t gotten to the point where it’s just prom ruler’s (or some gay name like that), I hope we do get to that point but it won’t happen for a very long time….
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And you say you want it to change, but it can’t?
It changes through people doing it differently.
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I meant more or less most people would want something like that to stay true to what it is as they otherwise fear change.