School Dance

It's almost October which means the season of high school dances is about to begin. I have younger siblings that are twins in high school, so dance madness has already begun at my house. Same age, same school, same friends...totally different experiences.
My brother; varsity soccer star, longboard wiz, varsity lacrosse player, surfer stud, and stereo-typical "bro" has his picks of girls from his graduating class of 950 students (400-something of those being girls). Him and his friends have been joking for weeks about which girls they will deem to ask. Last year for homecoming I was unfortunate enough to witness my brother and his friends flip through the year-book and point at random to the girls they would ask. They are fully aware that any girl they ask will feel lucky to just be asked to the homecoming dance and will more than likely say yes. But why? Why should girls have to just sit around and say yes to the first high school delinquent to ask them?
My sister; junior varsity lacrosse player, salesgirl at a local boutique, a bit timid and shy, but genuinely the nicest and most polite girl has been secretly fretting for weeks about whether or not she will be asked. I have witnessed time and time again her and her friends waiting and wondering if they will be going to the dance this year. Will they be lucky enough to be asked? Will they be dress shopping by the end of the week? Unfortunately for my sister and some of her friends the luck of getting asked wasn't in there favor this year - and they have no dates. Thus they are not going to the dance. This is exactly the same experiences I had in high school. If a girl didn't get asked to the dances then she obviously would not be attending that dance. Is this right? I think absolutely not.
While going to homecoming or any school dance is suppose to be a special experience - the boy asks the girl, the girl says yes, gets dolled up, and dances the night away - why should this be the only experience? Why can't the girls ask the boys? Why can't high schoolers boys and girls feel comfortable enough with themselves to go with our without dates?
Society needs to teach our youth that it is okay to be in a relationship or to be single. Being one is not better than the other. Girls need to realize that they have just as might rights as boys do. Girls should take control and ask boys to dances if they want, they shouldn't feel that is socially unacceptable. I hope when I have kids (in the far, far, far future) that they will attend high school in a time where boys can ask girls to dances AND girls can ask boys to dances.