There's an old saying in American politics, something about how you can bring 'em to the PROM but you can't make' em dance.

美国政界有句老话：你是怎么把他们带进舞厅的，你就怎么让他们跳舞。

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"Barnett Shale properties are like the beautiful woman at the prom, " one company PR man told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2005. "Everybody wants to dance with her.

2005年，一家公司的公关人员对《沃斯堡明星电讯报》表示：“巴奈特页岩田的财富就像是舞会上的漂亮女人，每个人都想和她跳舞。”

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In the ad, a boy gains confidence from driving his father's Audi to the prom, kisses the prom queen once he arrives at the dance and gets decked by the prom king.

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Mareshia and her friends bucked 40 years of local customs this month by organizing their own integrated prom, a formal dance open to Wilcox County's white, black, Latino and Asian high school students.

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But more surprising was the reaction to ads featuring what Siddiquee called more "subtle" forms of sexism, such as Audi's "Prom" ad, which showed a teen boy strutting onto the dance floor, grabbing a girl and pulling her in for a kiss.

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