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Sadie Hawkins[edit]

Sadie Hawkins Day/Sadie Hawkins Dance We held our Sadie Hawkins Day Dances on February 29 each Leap Year. It was the only time the girls could ask the boys to the dance. Padailey (talk) 02:24, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate names?[edit]

I'm fairly sure we ought to remove all the alternate names, mainly because none of them are cited or have any references. I'm sure if anyone did a little research they could clean up that section fairly well. I've removed a few of the obvious names connected with specific schools. The "Snowball" explanation neds a citation. Crazy (talk) 01:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed and done. Vertigo Acid (talk) 17:11, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

School-related article[edit]

It seems to me that Wikipedia refers to this page as if "Sadie Hawkins dance" were a school somewhere. Is that the way it should be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.109.117.218 (talk) 10:24, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tolo is not explained[edit]

This article is the page I was redirected to when I searched for "tolo". Tolo is not explained in any detail. I am also in agreeance with Others this article needs citations and further explanations/clarifications. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.22.30.181 (talk) 22:01, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for Content Improvement[edit]

As a suggestion for improvement, I re-wrote the passage removing content that could not be supported by fact with more neutral language. I also included sources. I do not know how to create references, but I did include my sources if someone were to use my suggestion.

In the United States, a Sadie Hawkins Dance is usually a less formal dance sponsored by a high school or middle school in which female students invite male students^[1]. This is contrary to the standard practice of male students asking female students to school dances such as Prom, in the spring, and Homecoming, in the fall.

The Sadie Hawkins dance derives its name after the Li'l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins, created by cartoonist Al Capp^[2]. In the strip, Sadie Hawkins Day fell on a given day in November (Capp never specified an exact date)^[3]. The unmarried women of Dogpatch got to chase the bachelors and "marry up" the ones they caught^[4]. The event was introduced in a daily strip which ran on November 15, 1937^[5].

In the U.S. and Canada, this concept was popularized by establishing dance events to which the woman invited a man of her choosing, contrary to the practice of the man inviting the woman^[6]. The first known event was held in 1937 ^[7]. Within two years hundreds of similar events followed suit^[8].

1. Lewis, Casey. http://prom.about.com/od/introtopromsformaldance/p/sadiehistory.htm "The History of Sadie Hawkins Dances", About.com, 29 April 2013.

2. Capp Enterprises. http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html "Sadie Hawkins Day", Capp Enterprises, 29 April 2013. Sbostran (talk) 02:43, 30 April 2013 (UTC)Sbostran[reply]

Hi there, this is my first time editing a wiki (!!!) so please forgive me if I messed anything up. In this article, phrases like “demurely waiting” and “woman-empowering rite” strike me as being unnecessary, as well as having too much weight behind them, you know? So far, I’m a little too nervous to actually delete content here, but I think those phrases should be struck, along with the other mention of female “empowerment”. Thank you! 😃 MsKG (talk) 13:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

URL for second ref is http://lil-abner.com/sadie-hawkins-day/

Ref 1 is already there, and I created ref 2. Both can be used in multiple places. David notMD (talk) 03:43, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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