The Racist & Sexist History of Prom | Teen Vogue

desegregation was a huge mistake. Good thing my school segregated itself

My grandma was the first black prom queen at her school :) in 1971

Whats wrong with gender norms? Actual question

Now teach them about the racist and sexist history of the Minimum wage. :)

I actually thoutght thaf I was the only person thinking that prom has a lot of sexist rules putting people in their "gender roles ". Glad that video came out.

This is such a boring, tired subject
It’s weird Americans got so obsessed by it starting 2014
It’s... last century’s struggle...

I beg your misogynistic pardon

So a girl that with a boy hair cut tries to tell girls that it wrong to act like a real lady and boys not to act like real men.
Prom was a formal dance. Then era and some people opinion were used in judgement. Right or wrong
Its still a formal dance. But people like you don't like when real boys and girls dress proper. You take offense to it. Get over it.

Segregation should not even be a problem but we still need to desegregate proms what kind of a world are we living in that we can’t get over our past without a protest 🙄😤

how to be liberal

Oh wait a minute, are you telling me that stuff before the 1960s was segregated and racist? Gee, I wouldn't have guessed. Also, there is nothing wrong with a Prom having social, behavioral and beauty standards, since it's meant to be a higher class dance. And about that "good girl" poster: I think we have all observed the modern culture when it comes to dressing. Many girls like showing a lot of skin. Don't deny it, if you've gone to high school in recent years, you know what I'm talking about. Since as mentioned before, Prom is meant to be a mature and classy dance, so naturally the school wouldn't want you to show up wearing something overly revealing. But oh wait, dress codes are sexist because they don't allow girls to wear anything. Oops I forgot.

Wow this is cancerous

WHO CARES

I get what she's saying and understand that it's history but what does this have to do with today's prom.

this is such propaganda.  Keep on crying SJW's, everyone's out to get you!!  Grow up, get a backbone, and quit blaming other people for your pathetic life.

So SJW

Anybody noticed that she skipped the 1970's ??

Prom need to go. It's outdated.

Until chapter 5 (and some signs of misogyny and racism) I don't see any wrong and evil thing at proms in history. That's just the way things were back then. I understand that at after the 60's those things shouldn't be happening because of the change of society.
But I think it's more an issue about the culture, not the party. I'm mexican and been living in Mexico my whole life and when I was a teen never had those "elitist", racism or misogyny issues. The dress code was just "go fancy". Nothing complicated or forced.

Tea ☕️