The NFL Draft starts tomorrow and proms are going on all around the country. You’d think these two things wouldn’t have much in common, but a bunch of male students at Newport Beach, California’s opulent Corona del Mar High School reportedly managed to combine them. According to the Los Angeles Times:
“[B]oys took turns plucking folded papers with numbers written on them. The lower their number, the better their odds of landing a prom date with the girl of their choice.”
The principal sent a note to parents, and school officials are conducting an investigation. Aside from a “prom draft” being a classless, jackass idea, you might’ve noticed the inherent logic problem here: The girls aren’t saying yes or no. Apparently these guys think it’s their own decision to make?!
Asking a girl to prom is awkward and nerve-racking. (Even if she agrees, it’s still awkward and nerve-racking when you try to kiss her at the party after prom and accidentally bump heads.) But you can’t get around that by treating girls like property who don’t have a say. That’s an outlook that went away more than a century ago.
No wonder the ACLU sued this high school in 2009 over its athletes bullying a gay student and threatening a female student. The prom draft guys had a Twitter account (@CDmprom_Insider, it’s been deleted) and were publicly bragging about this, but the joke’s on them. As the Times reported:
“One junior…paid $140 for a better draft pick to increase his chances of getting first dibs on a specific girl. ‘It’s awkward because he spent a large amount of money to go with someone he doesn’t talk to,’ the student said. ‘And she finds it awkward that he chose her.’”
FOH. As ridiculous as promposals can be, at least they’re asking a girl for her damn opinion!
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