This post is a follow up to my “dance=oscars” post. So this week almost everyone has been asked to the dance. Now I understand if you are going to the dance with your “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” but why have a date if you don’t even like them? For instance girls at my school are going to a non-date function with guys they NEVER talk to as, “friends.” At lunch I said “if it’s a non-date function then why have a date even if you are "just friends?” The girls looked at me like I had a mental problem! Apparently if you get asked to the dance by a boy you don’t like or are not dating, you have to say yes. I don’t understand why these girls want to make sure the guys don’t get there feelings hurt. Why do it for them if they don’t do it for us! One of my closest friends wasn’t going to go to the dance but then she was asked and she HAD to say yes. They say it is good manners, but if parents are teaching their daughters to say yes to a boy because its “good manners.” When will girls know to stop being polite and when to SAY NO!!!! Then of course there are the girls who actually want to get asked by someone and never do. These girls who are promised by their best friends that they will go as a group of girls, but then the best friend is asked and suddenly forgets about her promise. What are people teaching their daughters in the south? To forget about your friends and say yes to the first boy who asks you. This does not sound like the “baptist way” to me! Dances should be about hanging out wiith friends, NOT worrying about if you have a date or not!
