Promposals have been a buzzword for debate lately among adults and teenagers alike. Between authors Barbara Greenberg of the Huffington Post and Kelly Faircloth of Jezebel.com, the scale and publicity of a typical promposal seems to be the dividing issue. Greenberg, as a “lover of all things fun”, is elated by the amount of creativity and teamwork that teens are employing to strive towards making their promposals spectacular (Greenberg 3). In her opinion, having a giant, involved event is optimal and benefits everyone. Faircloth, however, sees only the bad, upset about the fact that a large production could put a girl on the spot, where if she says no she is labelled as a “huge bitch” and if she says yes, she’s trapped into going to prom with someone she “didn’t actually want to go with” (Faircloth 5, 2). Faircloth’s values obviously lie with making sure teenagers get the right introduction into adult dating. From this…show more content… She realizes that “the elevated fanfare of an unexpected promposal can put a lot of social pressure on the girl to say yes”, and suggests a solution that would “encourage new customs without sabotaging what's so great about [promposals]” and make a girl more comfortable, such as it becoming the norm for her to be able to respond privately if she so wishes (8). Conversely, Faircloth doesn’t seem to have a suggestion to improve promposals. Like Greenberg, she realizes that there are some kids who are “a couple of hams who just love staging flash mobs”, but she has no suggestions as to improving the promposal in that aspect, instead opting to continue to complain about how a boy can use a promposal to “hedge his bets” (Faircloth 4). Faircloth doesn’t care that some kids are having fun-- she finds promposals corrupt, and therefore they must all be shut down, even if she concedes that “this isn’t a trend that adults really have the power to stop”
