Sadie Hawkins Day

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Kate Neuman, If You Like a Guy, Tell Him. Sadie Hawkins Day was the one day that the girls pursued the boys. New York Times, Nov 15, 2018 (op-ed).
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/ ... en-ask-men-out.html

Note:
(a) online title: "If You Like a Guy, Tell Him. Only Then Will Women Be Free. [subtitle:] Let every day be Sadie Hawkins Day."

(b) "Sadie Hawkins Day — traditionally celebrated on Nov 15 — was the one day a year when it was the girls who pursued the boys, instead of the other way around. It was big back then, if less so now. * * * the holiday dates only from 1937. In the comic strip 'Li'l Abner' by Al Capp, Sadie Hawkins is 'the homely daughter of the earliest settler.' Her powerful father, fed up that she has had no marriage proposals, declares a namesake day for her during which she will chase the unmarried men in town, and the one she catches will have to marry her."
(i) Li'l Abner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner
(1934-1877 (43 years); the first strip based in the South; A white male, "Abner was 6' 3" and perpetually 19 'y'ars' old")
(ii) Sadie Hawkins Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_Day

Sadie is a diminutive of Sarah -- Hebrew name in Old Testament meaning noblewoman.  (In contrast, Marquis de Sade was the namesake of Sadism.)
(iii) Abner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner

(c) "Yvette Mimieux nearly died from wanting it in the classic teenage melodrama 'Where the Boys Are' "

Where the Boys Are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Boys_Are
(a 1960 American film)

Quote: "Melanie Tolman ([played by] Yvette Mimieux) to lose her virginity soon after the young women [her follow female university students] arrive in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. * * * Melanie discovers that Franklin (Rory Harrity), a boy from Yale who she thought loved her, was only using her for sex. * * * [Melanie went] to meet Franklin at a motel and instead finding there another of the 'Yalies,' Dill, who had raped her. Franklin had moved on to another girl, but told Dill that Melanie was 'easy' and set up the ambush. Melanie, with her dress torn, ends up walking into the busy road nearby looking distraught and wanting to die. Just as her friends arrive, she is sideswiped by a car and ends up in hospital."