Sadie Hawkins Day
Sadie Hawkins Day, an American folk event.
It made its debut in Al Capp's Li'l Abner strip November 15, 1937. Sadie Hawkins was "the homeliest gal in the hills" who grew tired of waiting for the fellows to come a courtin'.
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Daisy Mae hopes to win Lil Abner in the Sadie Hawkins Day
race in this funny old time film clip classic. I know the code of the
Hills....
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Her
father, Hekzebiah Hawkins, a prominent resident of Dogpatch, was even more
worried about Sadie living at home for the rest of his life, so he decreed the
first annual Sadie Hawkins Day, a foot race in which the unmarried gals pursued
the town's bachelors, with matrimony the consequence.
By the late 1930's the event had swept the nation and had a life of its own. Life magazine reported over 200 colleges holding Sadie Hawkins Day events in 1939, only two years after its inception. It became a woman empowering rite at high schools and college campuses, long before the modern feminist movement gained prominence.
The basis of Sadie Hawkins Day is that women and girls take the initiative in inviting the man or boy of their choice out on a date, typically to a dance attended by other bachelors and their aggressive dates. When Al Capp created the event, it was not his intention to have the event occur annually on a specific date because it inhibited his freewheeling plotting. However, due to its enormous popularity and the numerous fan letters Capp received, the event became an annual event in the strip during the month of November, lasting four decades.
See also this funny clip with giggling Sadie Hawkins girls
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