Comments on: Lesbians Win "Cutest Couple" In High School Yearbook, Are In Fact The Cutest Couple

By: Paper0Flowers

Paper0Flowers — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:23:22 +0000

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Translation: This is adorable

By: Sammi

Sammi — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:11:34 +0000

I think this is wonderful. Being openly gay myself, this brings a lot of hope to me. I just wish it wouldn’t have been that big of a deal to be in the news, you know?

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:07:55 +0000

This happened at my high school too, about 7 years ago. It was awesome!

By: eLJay

eLJay — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:41:04 +0000

Yay to society’s baby steps to full acceptance and respect to diversity!

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:09:17 +0000

We had that award in my middle school, but not my high school. I find it weird that high schools still assume that best friends have to be of the same gender (I mean, besides the fact that they aren’t aware that couples CAN be of the same gender).

By: Robot

Robot — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:20:27 +0000

My girlfriend and I were runner up for cutest couple at our school this year…and from what I hear it was pretty close. But to be fair, we are pretty damn cute.

By: wallow

wallow — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:15:14 +0000

Oh hey, Cara! This is Bonnie.

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:11:48 +0000

Thank you, Captain Buzzkill, for your valuable contribution. Here’s mine.

Votes are always anonymous and vary a hell of a lot depending on school culture and how tight-knit and/or catty the current class is. Some schools will nominate ‘cutest couples’ who aren’t even *dating* because students think they’d ‘look cute’ together (i.e. they vaguely resemble each other in looks and personality and the cult of personality at some high schools actually operates like a Disney teen sitcom). Most yearbook category winners are pretty predictable in some way; a pair dating since freshman year is basically a shoe-in for Cutest Couple. At *this* high school, I guess there weren’t any straight couples who were visible, friendly, and stuck it out that long, hence the win. The legitimate, totally sense-making win.

I can’t believe I had to talk this long to justify a weird American high school ritual and ‘politically correct’ as a term really needs to throw itself down a very deep hole and never emerge again.

By: Carita

Carita — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:51:09 +0000

I graduated in 2003! Can’t believe this came out of Calaveras!

By: syntxofthngs

syntxofthngs — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:59:00 +0000

I feel like they should’ve just said, “Sorry Ma, I’m gay… but my girlfriend and I are already winning shit for it.”

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:43:34 +0000

…a lesbian couple won best couple in my high school yearbook. I was good friends with them. It didn’t really phase anyone at my school. They all knew they were going to win because of how damn cute they were. They were actually irked that people voted for them because they weren’t out to their parents yet.

By: Dani

Dani — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:39:15 +0000

During my prom me and my girlfriend were completely skipped over in the nominations for cutest couple, when I say skipped over I mean literally the only non hetero non nominated couple in our year. I also happened to go to a very religious school, wonder what the connection there was…