Racist "prom-posal"

I disagree but I'm not fighting a Texas Death Match over it.

 

I've seen mommies of kindergartners and first-graders boast about their child's little girlfriend or boyfriend or crush and people just go ga-ga for it. We never even talk about that stuff in our house. It's well-understood it will wait for later in life. When my daugher talks about being "pretty," I steer the conversation elsewhere.

 

Are promposals a new thing? Not sure, but I do remember a story of Brad Pitt asking a girl to the prom by walking it out in the snow outside the school. She said no. Undaunted, I did something similar by peeing a proposal in the snow in the mid 1990s. I got the same answer.

 

Exactly. I’m pretty sure every kid in America knows better than to make a “joke” like this by that time they reach puberty, at the latest.

 

I'm with you. (Even though I started the thread.)

I used to make tasteless jokes, too, often about race. The joke was not the actual joke, if that makes sense. The joke was that I was being outrageous. We've been over this kind of thing a lot here. I'm in the very tiny minority.

 

Same. Best-case scenario at this point is he gets a little bit of a "shock sentence" that makes him aware that not being an asshole is a good way to go about life.

 

Adults are conned daily by Donald Trump; the kids are alright.

 

You’ve got a huge bladder and/or are a man of few words.

 

No. Absolutely, positively no.

For one, younger people today don’t look at racial humor the way we do. This is perfectly acceptable in their entertainment world.

For another, their brains don’t process. I’ve mentioned this before, but read “The Teenage Brain.” It’s amazing how crazy the stuff is going on in there. And that’s even in the “smart” kids. Decision-making is simply not strong, particularly in high school boys, because of physiology.

 

The "prom-posal" fad never happens without social media. The goal isn't to go through with it. The goal is to be seen and documented going through with it.

 

Jan prom? (it wasn't that difficult after a couple of waters). My mistake was the girl's name was Maureen