Ladies: Ask Him Out!

Back in high school, every year they would have the Sadie Hawkins dance, in which the girls asked out the guys for a change. I remember being puzzled by this. Why should that be different than any other dance, I wondered?

I am tired of hearing women complain about how men ignore them, they don't get asked out, etc.Buck up and ask him out ladies! Let's discard this old-fashioned nonsense about how men always have to make the first move, open doors, pay for the date and so forth. Why can't it be more equal? I mean, we say that we want equality and yet we still expect men to do all this stuff for us.

Now I know some of us are shy, but well, so are some men. Of course, it's O.K. , even becoming for a woman to be shy but for a man to be shy and sensitive is just, well *unmanly*. It's not just the male locker-room where this attitude persists- women buy into it too. C'mon, give the "non-macho" guys a chance!

So by women making "the first move" from dates to dances to even proposing marriage, gender roles of both women and men can become more flexible. Plus, think about it: if the man is always the one to go first- he has more power.