Sadie Hawkins Day

Well ladies I hope you are ready. It only happens once every four years but tomorrow is "Sadie Hawkins Day". Thanks to cartoonist Al Capp in his comic strip Li'l Abner, in 1937, February 29 will ever be known as Sadie Hawkins Day. The original strip had Sadie's father, Hekzebiah Hawkins, a prominent member of Dogpatch, set up a race for all the unwed ladies to pursue a bachelor. By the end of the thirty's Sadie Hawkins Day had swept the nation. Girls were allowed to ask out boys to a dance. In 1939 over 200 colleges across the country held Sadie Hawkins Dances.
That's pretty nice of Mr. Capp to allow women the freedom to choose a man, be it only one day and it only occurs once every four years. I am all for women asking men out, as a matter of fact, any women out there that want to ask me out feel free. I believe in equality between the sexes, women should feel the same anxiety that men feel when they ask someone out. Women should feel the same rejection that men feel when they are turned down over and over and over and.......well you get the picture. On the other hand, men should feel the same insecurities that women feel waiting for some one to ask them out. Sitting by the phone (ok so in these days of cell phones, "sitting" by the phone has a much different meaning then in the day of one land line per house) pining away, worrying that they will grow old alone. In one of my favorite movies, The Quiet Man, John Wayne, is referred to as "Sean Thornton, Bachelor" while Maureen O'Hara is, "Mary Kate Danaher.....Spinster".  That movie was made in the fifty's so you see, a lot hadn't changed since 1937.  I don't think women today would handle the asking out in the same manner as men. I can't see a woman being a wingman (wingwoman doesn't sound right, sorry) willing to "take one for your buddy" by picking up the good looking guys ugly friend. So once every four years we men get to know what it's like to wait. Ladies take the time to choose right, it will be a long time before you get to do it again, if we adhere to Mr Capp's world. Then again this is the 21st century and we don't live in Dogpatch so ladies if you do choose wrong don't worry about it just pick again on Thursday.