California school cracks down on 'prom draft'

[The Straight Story]

21. From the article

“I am part of the draft and am friends with many girls in the draft and yes, in some instances girls can be picked by appearance,” she wrote to the Register. “It is all just a fun way to decide who you will be going to prom with. It is not meant to harm those who are picked and I do not believe that it does. It is not, was never, and will never ever be used to objectify the girls at our school.”

I don't see it so much as sexism as people imitating real drafts from sports - ie, something they participate in in the real world but also in fantasy sports where people don't opt in). You want the 'best' people on your team, you have a pool of people to pick from, you draft them. When we do it other things people aren't calling it sexist towards boys. All throughout school you have mini teams where they 'draft' or pick from a pool to be on one team or another, etc. This is an extension of that.

As noted, I personally don't like it but I have a hard time judging others in this when it appears, as noted above by one of the girls, that it was fun and games and nothing more than a mapping of something else that is even more common.