Feminists accuse man who proposed on graduation day of 'hijacking' his girlfriend's special occasion

Lion_amongst_gods · 2019-07-28T10:41:25+00:00

I don't want to side with feminists here, but there's a time and place for everything. A graduation ceremony is a graduation ceremony, not the occasion to propose.

Imagine you're in a hotel for a date with your lady and you have planned to propose to her at the end of the meal. Just before the champagne with the ring arrives, your girl's university dean appears in a gown and gives her a diploma in an impromptu ceremony. She is ecstatic, and jumping with joy. Now wouldn't you think that the university stole your thunder and hijacked your special occasion?

You can argue that it makes her day doubly joyous, but I'm not buying it.

antilopes · 2019-07-28T09:57:13+00:00

Meh, most people realise it is uncool to propose during a speech at someone else's wedding. Isn't this similar?

rbrockway · 2019-07-28T14:25:02+00:00

I proposed to my life on her graduation day, but I let her enjoy her ceremony and take pictures and all that. I didn't want to interfere with that. Then in the evening, when we were alone I proposed.

She says she loved it. Made her day even more special.

She's also a feminist... when she read this, she said (slightly paraphrased) "Those are just women looking for something to complain about, which is doubly frustrating because there are actual issues that impact women they could be advocating for."

Sandy_abdul · 2019-07-28T13:42:32+00:00

Propose in private: "bride to be isn't happy because not enough effort was put into it" Propose in public: "you're basically forcing her to say yes"

Question, Why do guys have to be the ones to make the first move, and propose?

rbrockway · 2019-07-28T18:41:56+00:00

Maybe there is a case to be made that he disrupted the ceremony but he must have had the university's approval for this and she's come out and said she's happy with what happened.

In any case, the problem I have with the feminists here is that they feel compelled to frame this (and everything else) in terms of gender, and make their outrage public.

Jamie850 · 2019-07-28T08:35:48+00:00

This screams out jealousy.

double-happiness · 2019-07-28T18:21:56+00:00

Dr Jana Bacevic, a research associate in sociology at the University of Cambridge, wrote on Twitter: "Imagine being a man and feeling so threatened by a woman's intellectual success that you have to force her to frame her identity/agency in relation to you on the very day she is being celebrated for her intellect.

"Oh wait, that's, like, 99.9 per cent men."

I see Dr. Bacevic admits to being "both precariously employed and only part-waged" herself. Let's hope ms. Banuskeviciute didn't major in sociology.

rbrockway · 2019-07-28T06:40:09+00:00

Feminism is Lithuanian for outrage.

5th_Law_of_Robotics · 2019-07-28T13:30:00+00:00

So a bunch of misandrist femcels are upset some other woman is in a happy relationship.

Pathfinder24 · 2019-07-28T18:05:14+00:00

They're right. It's bad form.

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Title	Feminists accuse man who proposed on graduation day of 'hijacking' his girlfriend's special occasion
Author	rbrockway
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Date	July 28, 2019 6:39 AM UTC (6 years ago)
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