Thursday, November 18
Sadie Hawkin's Day
So this is getting interesting. Below I mention Sadie Hawkins day in a post about the Texas school district cancelling its cross-dressing day, which also had aspects of Sadie Hawkins Day as I remember it: it was that dance in junior high when the girls got to ask the boys. I suspect they had them in high school, too, but you forget I went to an all boys Catholic school. I was always afraid of that day in junior high because of a misguided fear that a girl would ask me out. Misguided in that they never did. Nothing to fear but fear itself and all that.
Anyway, check this out: Here is a holiday that originated from a cartoon. It all began in Al Capp's "Lil Abner Cartoon in the 1930s. In the cartoon series, the mayor of Dogpatch was desperate to marry off his ugly daughter. So he created Sadie Hawkin's Day. On this day, a race is held and all the single men were given a short head start. If the ugly woman catches her man (probably a girlie man, in Ah-noldese), he had to marry her.
This all took place in Dogpatch. Where's Dogpatch? Arkansas, of course. A red state. It all comes full circle.
Anyway, check this out: Here is a holiday that originated from a cartoon. It all began in Al Capp's "Lil Abner Cartoon in the 1930s. In the cartoon series, the mayor of Dogpatch was desperate to marry off his ugly daughter. So he created Sadie Hawkin's Day. On this day, a race is held and all the single men were given a short head start. If the ugly woman catches her man (probably a girlie man, in Ah-noldese), he had to marry her.
This all took place in Dogpatch. Where's Dogpatch? Arkansas, of course. A red state. It all comes full circle.
