Sadie Hawkins Day - For Butterflies

Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 17:00 in Psychology & Sociology

If you're not from a part of the U.S.A. that read the "Li'l Abner" comics by Al Capp, you may not know Sadie Hawkins Day - but butterflies do.   Sadie Hawkins, as comic strip aficionados know, was 'the homeliest gal in the hills' so her prominent father, worried about her never finding a husband, invented a day where women could chase men and marriage was the result.   The strip debuted in November of 1937 and was wildly popular, resulting in Sadie Hawkins dances all over the country for decades since. The cool days of November aren't lucky for just bachelor men.  Butterflies have sex role reversal when the days get cooler as well. read more

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