Sadie Hawkins Dance

One of my favorite songs - Sadie Hawkins Dance by Relient K
Anatomy of the Tongue and Cheek



So, one of my good friends is throwing a Sadie Hawkins Dance for 15 girls in theater and they have to invite one guy to go with them. Really fun idea, right? Well, I haven't been on facebook (lent) so I didn't get the original invitation.
So, one of my best friends (Max) starts hinting to me all day..."Meredith, so uh.. I heard you have something to ask me..." and of course I'm like "Max, what are you talking about?" (Because I really don't know) and he says "Aren't you going to ask me a certain question...?" And I'm utterly confused of course.
So he finally explains and is dying for me to ask him. I'm debating waiting until the last second just to drive him crazy. That was in 3rd period, right before 7th period, when I was walking to English I saw Max in the hallway. The hall was crowded with people and they all stared at me as I got down on one knee on the germ-infested ground and asked Max to go to the Sadie Hawkins Dance with me. To this he replies "YES!"
I love him, in a bff way of course.

So I thought to myself "Who is Sadie Hawkins anyway, and why did they name a dance after her?" So I turned to one of my favorites - Wikipedia
Here's what I found :

The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li'l Abner comic strip character, Sadie Hawkins. In the comic, November 13 was Sadie Hawkins Day, where the unmarried women of Dogpatch got to chase the bachelors and marry the ones they caught. The event was first introduced in a strip published on November 13, 1937. The idea of this dance name has been brought to attention heavily in Delaware by Pat Ramone.
In the U.S., this concept was popularized by establishing dance events to which the woman invited a man of her choosing, instead of demurely waiting for a man to ask her. The first known such event was held on November 9, 1938. Within a year hundreds of similar events followed suit, and the tradition became a permanent fixture in some regional American cultures.