OK, competition for homecoming queen is tough enough when you're up against only the female hotties. But now the latest trend appears to be gender-nonspecific homecoming "queens", as reported by SCSUScholars:
Via Cold Spring Shops and Tongue Tied, I read this morning that another school has decided to pitch the idea of homecoming queens as gender-nonspecifc. At least in their case you could argue that the reason was noble -- they wanted to give everyone an equal chance to win a scholarship.
However, I agree with SCSU that trumpeting one's love of "diversity" and "tolerance" by electing a male homecoming queen is still sillier than doing away with the whole "elected royalty" nonsense. It seems that at SCSU, a group of students deliberately nominated a male for homecoming queen (and a female for king) in order to "challenge traditional gender roles and promote tolerance among the student population." Sorry, but it's still a cheesy popularity contest, and I don't need anyone to challenge my belief in traditional gender roles in order to decide that.
Posted by kswygert at November 16, 2004 05:43 PM