Arcadia High's Prom Song Ban

It was an okay idea until I thought about something...girls will still give free lap dances. Kids will still be grind dancing on other kids. Some random couple will have sex in a dark corner. You know, the normal slutty stuff that goes on at school dances that kids would hate for their parents to find out they do.

Misogyny is found in many different genres, so why are all the songs they're banning from Hip-Hop and R&B? They say that they started their mission when they were watching Oprah and she asked Hip-Hop/R&B artists if they thought their lyrics were degrading to women. (http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_12355557) So who do we blame, Oprah for not bringing on other artist or them for not caring to do more research and taking Oprah's word as law? (easy answer....it's Oprah's fault!)

They said they had a list of 300 songs but only 20 will end up being banned from the prom. I would like to see the complete list of 300 songs. I'm really curious to know if the whole list is comprised of Hip-Hop/R&B songs. If not, why were the only songs that were chosen all from the same genres? Apparently they presented the school with the list of 300 songs and 20 songs were picked from the list.

...oooookkkkkkkaaaaaayyyyyyyy????

Also, where are the Kidd Rock songs? How about “Don’t Trust Me” by 3OH!3?

Addicted - Saving Abel
Hit That - Offspring
Rock This Bitch - Ben Folds
Clothes Off – Gym Class Heroes
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang
Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry

I'm sure there's many more and in other genres than rock too. I'll be adding them as I come across them...

In one article it says that there was a chain email going around the school telling other students not to sign the petition because they felt that what the club was doing was going to ruin their prom. Idk, but that sounds crazy to me. You can't enjoy prom if you don't hear the words, "Smack that all on the floor / Smack that til you get sore"? I'm sure you'll enjoy the music. They're not going to go all "Disney Channel" on you. I'm sure they're not going to pull out anything from 1970 something. Like they said, they are not promoting abstinence...they're trying to not promote treating women like objects.

Well, we shall see how things unfold. I kinda hope that at this dance the DJ decides to be a smart aleck and play a song that’s not Hip-Hop or R&B that degrades women so, hopefully, when they do their misogyny-free dance they’ll actually be targeting songs that degrade women and not just Hip-Hop and R&B songs that degrade women. I know that's mean, but I don't think they'll notice the issue if they don't see it right in front of their faces. After all it took something big, like The Oprah Winfrey Show, to get them to do this. I'm actually kinda shocked that they missed a very obvious one, "Hoe" by Ludacris. :-\

If you went to this prom please leave a comment telling me about how it went. I'm very eager to hear about what happened. :)