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Stop Interrupting Your Significant Other’s Accomplishments With A Proposal

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There have now been fiveproposals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Five!

The first came from Deodoro Stadium managerMarjorie Enya and Brazilian rugby playerIsadora Cerullo.

Then came the very public proposal of Chinese Olympic divers Qin Kai and He Zi.

Monday saw a more private proposal between UK race walkerTom Bosworth and boyfriendHarry Dineley.

Monday also saw UK dressage competitor Charlotte Dujardin pressed by her fianc, Dean Golding.

And then on Tuesday, AmericanWill Claye went up in the stands to propose to American hurdlerQueen Harrison after he got silver in the triple jump.

But you know what?That’s enough. No more. The Olympics proposals have to stop.

I am no Scrooge. Love is super fun and everybody should have it!

Marriage can be a really cool thing if you find someone you like who’s good to you! Engagement rings are dazzlingly pretty as long as you forget about the whole patriarchal history of oppression and the ring’s symbolic indication that the woman is now owned by the man!

Nah, but for real. Proposals can be really sweet. I am not anti-proposals.

I helped my now brother-in-law plan his proposal and then spent the day ofexcitedly pacing around my living room waiting for my sister to call me with the good news. Proposals are fine.

But, you know what’s not fine? Making an engagement seem like a bigger deal than a superhuman accomplishment for which you worked crazy hard.

I stand by Judy Berman on this: “Any idiot can get married.”

Do you know what any idiot can’t do? Olympic diving or dressage or track & field or rugby or race walking. (Race walking is hard you guys.)

It was especially irksome to see Zi’s boyfriend jump up while she was in her moment of personal achievement just to ask if they could get married.

Bro, she’s kind of busy right now.

Enya, the stadium manager, proposed to rugby player Cerullo after the rugby final between Australia and New Zealand. Enya told the BBC,

As soon as I knew she was in the squad I thought I have to make this special.

Do you know what else makes making an Olympic squad special? Making the Olympic squad.

Enya also told the BBC,

I wanted to show people that love wins.

Which is great! Having two same-sex proposals in such a high-profile venue is an awesome sign of progress for the world.

But on the personal level, questions remain, thoughit is, of course, not impossible Enya knew the answers to these questions: Did Cerullo want her Olympic appearanceto become a message to the world? Was she ready for that? Was she ready to get engaged at all?

Rom-coms (and “The Night Before“) over the years have taught us public proposals are terrible, especially when they’re surprises. What if you’re not ready? What if you wanted to think about it a little bit? No time for that, everyone’s looking at you!

Public proposals are terrible (unless you’re into that thing and discussed itat length with your partner).

I mean, just look at Dujardin. Her fianc wore a sign to her gold medal ceremony saying, “Can we get married now?”

So while Dujardin is having her moment, she’s also faced with public pressure to go ahead and get married already, woman!

After the London 2012 Summer Olympics, Dujardin and Golding broke up for a bit because of the pressures she faced to continue competing. According to The Telegraph, Golding is “desperate” to start a family.

There mightbe a few reasons why Dujardin is not quite as desperate as her fianc to start a family.

But, now she’s being pressured as if her personalachievements are getting in the way of a woman’s only purpose in life: to get married and start a family.

The other terrible thing that starts happening after a public, high-profile proposal is the media coverage. It’sthe worst.

Publications start writing that getting engaged is an awesome achievement — as if winning an Olympic medal is on par with a thing, again, any idiot can do.

And then, people take us back to the whole patriarchal oppression business.

For example, this is how the official English Rio 2016 Twitter account talked about Claye’s proposal.

Queen Harrison, an Olympic athlete in her own right, is reduced to a thing someone “wins.”

In headlines, Harrison becomes nothing more than “girlfriend.” The Roanoke Times wroteit was “a good morning in Rio for Kristi Castlin and Queen Harrison.”

Castlin qualified in heats for the 100-meter hurdle semifinals. Harrison answered a question. But, we’re all being told these areequal levels of achievement.

In any case, proposing in the middle of a big achievement is like having your birthday on New Year’s. Instead of getting two chances to celebrate, all you get is one.

Not to mention, can you imagine how annoying it must be for the other athletes around?

Imagine telling your grandkids,

Well, I won gold in diving in the 2016 Rio Olympics, but then some egomaniac jumped onto the medal stand and nobody cared that I won gold anymore.

Lovers, this is the Olympics. There are more important things going on here than your desireto be with your partner.

Honestly, the only people who did their proposal kind of right were Bosworth and Dineley, who at least kept it out of competition.

Love is great, I’m really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but you gotta let real achievements finish first.

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