Crossing at the Prom!

[Natalia]

(From Pam'shouseBlend.com)

More evidence that the world is changing and kids are cool with it! Even some of the adults are going along this time.

Peabody female student gets OK for male prom date in drag
By Robin Kaminski / The Daily Item
PEABODY - Like most senior girls, Peabody Veterans Memorial High School student Deborah Lawson has been busy picking out a dress for the prom and securing a date for the big day.

But the twist to Lawson's fairy tale is that she wanted to bring a male friend to the dance -- one who would like to wear a dress as well.

PVMHS Principal Ed Sapie-nza reportedly balked at the notion and den-ied Lawson's request.

Ultimately, Lawson, 17, won the battle with the school to bring her friend to the dance when School Superintendent Milton Burnett gave her his OK shortly after Sapienza said no. The friend will wear one of Lawson's own dresses.

Further in the article, various kids support their classmate. Perhaps my favorite comment;


"If I saw him walking around in a dress, I might be taken aback by it at first, and think that it's kind of weird," Cassie Trombley, a junior at PVMHS said. "But if a girl wanted to wear a suit or a tux to the prom, I think that would be alright, so I'm OK with him wearing a dress."
Really, it's just clothing. People should be able to wear whatever "suits" them... (pun intended)

[Alex-is]

Ahh i wish i could have done that

[Chrisacd]

That is awesome. I dont see why the principal would deny the girl to have her friend come he would be in formal wear. I understand it might be weird but i would rather see a kid in a dress then all that disgusting grinding. It seems easy for girls to accept the fact we crossdress where as most guys would shun at the idea.

[TxKimberly]

Awesome! And the world gets just a little more enlightened. :-)

[jennifer easton]

Well coming from the female side of the school thats all well and cool but the problem is going to be from the a##hole, bully males that will try to save the prom from the fa%%et thats attacking the school prom,lord knows that once they get there foot in the door all is lost!!! so they need to save the night, straiten them out! I so hope that this is not to be the case here, but this is what we see on the news every night! some one trying to save the world buy the way they think Jennifer

[Natalia]

Maybe, just maybe it will not end badly...My guess is that enough people know about it that this one kid is safe this one time...

[Pandora]

Well coming from the female side of the school thats all well and cool but the problem is going to be from the a##hole, bully males that will try to save the prom from the fa%%et thats attacking the school prom,lord knows that once they get there foot in the door all is lost!!! so they need to save the night, straiten them out! I so hope that this is not to be the case here, but this is what we see on the news every night! some one trying to save the world buy the way they think Jennifer

Jennifer, your post just made me envision a prom like the one in Carrie, only Carrie is a CD with psychic powers.

"They're all gonna laugh at you!" :eek:

We know who got the last laugh in that one.

[jennifer easton]

I know girls I came off as some wild crazy woman!! and your right Natalia and Pandora, I should look to the goodness of the young, and I do only wish good things for there Prom, I too would have loved to attend my Prom in some flowing dress with my date sweating over how he was going to pin on my corsage, so I've settled down and have counted to ten all is well, I HOPE!! Jennifer

[Cheyenne Skye]

Jennifer, your post just made me envision a prom like the one in Carrie, only Carrie is a CD with psychic powers.

"They're all gonna laugh at you!" :eek:

We know who got the last laugh in that one.

I had the same vision.:heehee:

To the OP: Do you have a link to the full article?

[Natalia]

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5444

You all need to scan through Pam's...wonderful friendly place for all.

[Michl41]

Maybe the superintendent is one of us!:daydreaming:

[Donna Michelle]

I can also imagine the bullies picking on the poor crossdresser. I have a male friend who dressed as a girl and had a male date for her prom. She had a beautiful gown, her date had a tux and her mother let her have her own prom at home. They decided NOT to go to the "real" prom, since crossdressing was not permitted.

[CharleneT]

My impression, from knowing a fair number of High Schoolers (friends kids) is that they are more accepting than we imagine of different dress and lifestyle choices. Sure, there will probably be some kidding ... but heck, they will also kid people just because of the color of a dress or whether Tom tied his bowtie right etc...

Hat's off to those kids !!

C.

[boy2girl31]

I love this story. If something like this would have happened at my school I probally would have gone to my prom and he wouldn't have been the only one in a dress. Have you seen some of the new prom dresses Ohhhhh...

[Natalia]

That may account for some of the tolerance we see here...

I cannot imagine the same story coming out of W. Virginia or any other such state...

Mass has a long history of leading in social tolerance dating back to being the very first of the states to abolish slavery - decades before the emancapation proclamation.

Massachusetts and New Hampshire enacted state constitutions with declarations of rights that seemed to prohibit slavery. In Massachusetts, a series of freedom suits brought on behalf of Quok Walker eventually resulted in a 1783 court decision that the 1780 constitution granted rights incompatible with slavery and therefore slavery was abolished "as effectively as it can be without resorting to implication in constructing the constitution."

[docrobbysherry]

This should NOT be a big deal! Anyone, should be allowed whatever they want to a prom, as long as they're dressed up!

Of course, all the guys wearing dresses r gay, and girls wearing suits, dykes! Oh, by the way, r they still burning witches in New England?

[Natalia]

As I understand it, the topic of witch burning is being held back from the US Supreme Court during this term in hopes that John McBush will be elected and finally stack SCOTUS with 4 more angry christian white males in Pilgrim Garb.

(only partially in jest)

[Angie G]

That's cool I hope it works out good foe them.:hugs:
Angie

[pamela_a]

As I understand it, the topic of witch burning is being held back from the US Supreme Court during this term in hopes that John McBush will be elected and finally stack SCOTUS with 4 more angry christian white males in Pilgrim Garb.


More love from the "tolerant" libs.

On a brighter note. I'm happy they are allowing "diversity and tolerance " in the halls of the diversity and tolerance indoctrination centers (aka public schools). It's encouraging to read about young people stepping out and maybe taking the lead on getting the word out that CDs are people too. I hope they have a great time.

-Paula-

[victoriamwilliams1]

Now I am happy for this! Now has anyone noticed that these stories come out every year around prom time? And when they do the school has a problem with it even if the student dressed the whole year as with what happened last year and the year before that, in those cases both are TS.

[Adrianamireasa79]

am happy for him/her.
i just wish that i could have done the same at my prom :o
if i did i have been made queen for sure :D

[Natalia]

May 16, 2008
NY High School: No male escort? No prom.
Here's some random sexism for you. A Staten Island high school has banned female students (it's all all-girls school) from attending their prom without a male date.

The juniors at St. Peter's Girl's High School have one week to find a boy to take to prom, or they're not allowed to go. It's a new rule that has some parents upset.
"I don't think it's right because what if they don't have a boyfriend?" mother Tanya Altieri said. "They got to be forced to go bring somebody off the street, or a cousin? That's embarrassing … or your brother?"

...Added New Brighton resident Mimi Quillin: "That's really sad, because I thought we'd just gotten to the point where boys and girls, if they wanted to do it stag, alone, whatever, they could do it."


Apparently one of the reasons that girls can't attend without a male escort is the fear that without a proper date, the gals will get a little too crazy. Yeah, you know we need dudes to keep us in check.

Posted by Jessica at 09:42 AM | in Sexism | Comments (29) | TrackBacks (0)

[Crystal Dawn]

I wish that would of happened to me when i was in school, and i wish someone around my town would help me out.

[LUVTHOSEHEELS]

That would have been awkward for me as i got Prom King
"And here is your prom King......uh Queen!"
I wish:daydreaming: