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[quote=Anonymous]Perhaps the answer depends (like most things) on the details of the program. I grew up in the Deep South in the 80s and 90s. Our cotillion was held at the local country club, which still “unofficially” denied membership to black people and Jewish people then. I was one of just a few kids from my (all white catholic school) who didn’t attend cotillion in the early 90s. My dad didn’t appreciate the racist policies of the country club so didn’t want to send me. The gender politics were really strict too—girls had to wear dresses to attend, and as a girl who hated dresses, I really didn’t want to go (I came out as a lesbian after leaving home, so there’s that too). Do I think all cotillions are inherently racist? I don’t know, but can say that the one in my hometown certainly has a troubled racial history that they’re not willing to examine.[/quote]
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