This has to be every man’s nightmare. On one hand, it’s the risk you take when you choose such a public venue to ask for a woman’s hand in marriage. On the other hand, is this the best way the woman could have handled it?
This man is probably ruined for life…no exaggeration.
Roll tape…
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8 responses to “Man Proposes to Girlfriend at UCLA Game…and…She…uh… (VIDEO)”
Can you say OUCH? WOW!!!
Unfortunately, that is the best rejection at a UCLA game this season.
Any man who chooses such a cowardly way to propose to a girl deserves whatever happens to him. I don't know when men will get it out of their heads that proposing in public venues is some sort of grand, gallant gesture. It's anything but. It's a sign of massive insecurity. It's bringing the weight and pressure of the whole viewing public down upon the girl instead of showing her the respect of making her own choice. If I were a woman, I would resent being treated that way too. I always respect the women who stand up for themselves this way. Sure, it's probably a traumatic experience for the guy, but it's hard not to say he didn't have it coming.
I wouldn't call him "cowardly." It's hard for me to knock any man willing to ask for a woman's hand in marriage in an age where baby-mamas are the norm.
I wouldn't have done it this way and would have advised against it if he were my friend and sought my counsel…but I wouldn't call him "cowardly." Leveraging the pressure of the moment in the hopes she'd say yes was unfair to the woman, no doubt. But I would term this as good idea (marriage), poor execution (the proposal). The moment (and viral nature of the video is shame enough. I wouldn't also indict his manhood by terming this as cowardly.
Morris Will O'Kelly I agree with you as far as your argument goes, though I still think it's an insecure guy who puts his girlfriend up to a stunt like that. However, whether or not the guy is cowardly, you definitely have to question his judgment. It boggles my mind to think a guy would propose marriage to a woman without having ever brought the topic up with her before to see if she were, you know, receptive to the idea. To spring a question like that on a woman without any warning isn't going to necessarily be received as the wonderful surprise he is fantasizing about — it's going to be jarring, especially in a venue like that.
I once read an interesting comment about the video depicting that guy whose proposal got rejected at the Twins game (in fact, he got slapped in the face for his pains) from someone who said that he regularly sees such stunts in his line of work. In most cases, he said, you can tell that the guy is expecting to get rejected; he's just making a desperate last stand he's pretty sure is going to fail. I can't imagine buying a ring in the vain hope that the sparkly will buy the girl's love.
Ah, well. We all make mistakes. When I was a hopelessly romantic teenager, I used to fantasize about making a grand gesture like this myself, until I grew up a bit, looked at it from the woman's perspective, and realized it's at best impolite and at worst a bit creepy.
Rourke Douglas Decker Agreed…the judgment was questionable at best. And I also agree that for him not to know on some level how she would respond says volumes.
To propose in such a grand and public way should be a formality…not an actual question. You could tell, he really didn't know how she would respond, which speaks to his lack of judgment and poor reconnaissance.
If he was insecure before…this surely doesn't nothing to change it, only exacerbates it. I tend to give the benefit of the doubt in situations like these where it doesn't seem like he was being mean-spirited. He was definitely unfair in how he decided to go about it, but I don't think it was maliciously done.
I think we agree that more blame goes to the man than the woman in this scenario, but I do maintain that getting up and walking away wasn't the best and only option available to her. Yes, it's easy for me to say that on this side of the camera in the privacy of my own home, but I would like to think there was still a better option for her in terms of response.
Rourke Douglas Decker Agreed…the judgment was questionable at best. And I also agree that for him not to know on some level how she would respond says volumes.
To propose in such a grand and public way should be a formality…not an actual question. You could tell, he really didn't know how she would respond, which speaks to his lack of judgment and poor reconnaissance.
If he was insecure before…this surely doesn't nothing to change it, only exacerbates it. I tend to give the benefit of the doubt in situations like these where it doesn't seem like he was being mean-spirited. He was definitely unfair in how he decided to go about it, but I don't think it was maliciously done.
I think we agree that more blame goes to the man than the woman in this scenario, but I do maintain that getting up and walking away wasn't the best and only option available to her. Yes, it's easy for me to say that on this side of the camera in the privacy of my own home, but I would like to think there was still a better option for her in terms of response.
Poor guy 🙁