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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who didn't grow up in this country, I never understood the obsession with prom. And I'm very confused about why parents are so eager to have it- perhaps to live out their high school days vicariously through their children? The outdoor dance/movie night with food truck options seem to be great, especially if the kids dress up for a Big Night Out. We had balls, and they were black tie indoor/outdoor events. I'm just genuinely perplexed about this prom obsession. [/quote] It’s a teen rite of passage in high school. Surely you can understand that even if you never went to one yourself? If you’re raising kids here get used to it. [/quote] It's honestly not that big of a deal to most people in most parts of the country. Even waaay back when I went to my prom (yes, with a date, a pack of friends, a limo, an afterparty, the whole nine yards) everyone I knew recognized the inherent lameness of this forced, cliched, plastic event. I didn't know anyone who was dying to go or who had looked forward to it since they were a young child. We went, but with lots of joking and irony at how silly the whole thing really is. But in some pockets of the country it is a VERY BIG DEAL. It is VERY IMPORTANT to go tanning and go to the spa and get an updo, etc. so that you look your VERY BEST because looking your VERY BEST is a validation of who you are. These are the same pockets of the country where child and teen pageants are still a thing and gender roles and heterosexual normativity is policed at every turn. The thing about the DMV is that people from all over the country and the world live here, so people with very different feelings about a things like the prom (or pageants, or cotillions, etc.) find themselves in the same community. Hence this thread. [/quote]
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