{"id":9630,"date":"2013-04-09T17:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T17:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:59:00","slug":"why-not-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2013\/04\/09\/why-not-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not, Ladies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republished from the 2011-2012 Acronym Year<\/p>\n<p>By Julianne Crawford &#8217;12<\/p>\n<p>Our college applications are turned in, standardized tests are history, and although we are finally second semester seniors there is still one very important event to check off our lists before we graduate\u2026senior prom. Prom has been an integral part of the high school experience for countless generations, and although IMSA differs in many ways from conventional schools, this is one convention that remains the same.\u00a0<em>Traditionally<\/em>\u00a0speaking, it\u2019s the guy who asks the girl to the dance. Consequently, it\u2019s the girl who spends sleepless nights tossing and turning, worrying who will ask her, or worse yet, whether or not she will be asked at all! Whether she has a special someone in mind, or simply doesn\u2019t want to go alone, the question remains, should she wait to be asked, or take the initiative and ask the guy herself? As the saying goes, \u201cThe only way to get what you want is to ask for it,\u201d but just how far are we willing to take this notion? Some argue that if a guy is interested, he will take initiative, other times however, it isn\u2019t that straightforward. Occasionally, guys are insecure about themselves, and might just be too timid or (and I apologize) clueless about the protocol. So why not, ladies? I say go for it!<\/p>\n<p>A quote from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/sfmoms\/2011\/12\/08\/michele-bachmann-girls-dont-ask-boys-to-prom\/?tsp=1\">an article in the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>\u00a0reads, \u201cWe\u2019re no longer living in the dark ages. Today, women are acing math exams, playing sports, supporting their families. They\u2019re the CEOs of companies and some, like you, are even running for president. Shouldn\u2019t they be able to ask a boy to the silly prom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am not advocating that a girl should go up to a guy she has never talked to and ask if he will be her prom date, not at all. There has to be some level of relationship between said boy and girl in order for this to happen. What I\u00a0<em>am\u00a0<\/em>saying, girls, is that if there is a certain someone that you want to go with, why not just take the initiative and ask instead of waiting around to be asked? \u00a0Of course, you need to be prepared for anything, rejection or otherwise. Either way, you are increasing your chances of not only having a date, but also having a date of your choice. Remember, you only have one high school senior prom, so make the most of it!<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image photocred to: Kaylee Karumanchi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republished from the 2011-2012 Acronym Year By Julianne Crawford &#8217;12 Our college applications are turned in, standardized tests are history, and although we are finally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,12],"tags":[1790,1283,1789,1787,1785,1788],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews","category-opinions","tag-crawford","tag-girls","tag-julianne","tag-ladies","tag-prom","tag-tradition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9653,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions\/9653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}