Halloween Dances
by Jacob on October 19, 2005, under Insights
I’ve decided that I don’t really like stake Halloween dances, and let me tell you why.
Actually, its not the fact that a Halloween dance is bad, but its when there are generally only two stake dances every year and one of them is a Halloween dance. I’m unhappy because about half the the stake dances that I’ve ever been to at BYU have been Halloween dances.
Halloween dances can be fun, but I just think that the Halloween theme is so often done (every year) that there are other fun themes for dances which never happen.
If you ask people about why there are dances, you might get a variety of answers. Some might say that its for the free food, free fun, or the exercise. I suppose many people will say that it provides an unique environment to socialize with friends. If these were the only reasons, then perhaps a ward Halloween dance would be appropriate. But I’m talking about stake dances here, which have an additional couple of purposes. I think one of the biggest reasons to have a stake dance is to be able to meet new people in the stake that they would not normally have a chance to meet. Of course part of this is meeting new people of the opposite gender that you might want to get to know better.
So if one of the major purpose of a stake dance is to meet new people, then let me ask, does having everyone disguised in costumes promote this purpose? It seems like with Halloween, people dress up and look (and often act) different than they really are. I don’t think that having people look and act differently than they normally do makes it easier to meet and get to know new people to make friends with.
How is it suppose to be easier to meet some cute girl that I’ve never met before if she has makeup and whatever that makes it look like she has an axe coming out of her back or something?
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October 21st, 2005 on 7:56 am
Maybe it’s not about what the girl looks like.
October 21st, 2005 on 12:31 pm
I was very careful to not say that it was all about what a girl looks like. Unfortunately, I’ve observed with Halloween that when people are dressed up in a costume, they actually (often) ACT differently.
But I would also be a fool to think that it has nothing to do with what a person looks like. I think this is a social standard. Anyone who has ever spent any extra time dressing up for a date or taking that second look in the mirror before going out accepts this fact.
If on Halloween, someone dresses up to look scary (and don’t tell me that never happens), it DOES make it difficult to see them for who they really are.
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