Is there a male equivalent of debutante balls?
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To clarify: Focused on an age cohort rather than individuals. So coming of age rituals don’t count. twitter.com/Terence_Hughes
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Ahh! Is that a weird play on Cotillion?
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The beautillion, though it's mostly only found in Jamaica and parts of the Philippines
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All the people mentioning competitive sports… no. The key feature of a debutante ball is an age cohort being formally presented to society for the first time. You do it only once and together.
Possibly medieval tournaments might count for first-timer jousting knights though
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This is intriguing but feels off. Induction in a secret or private society as opposed to public society and riding to a public formal status.
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nominations into mens clubs?
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Kinda weird. It’s like batch-processing IPO of young women into marriage market. I’m kinda surprised the tradition has survived in the south at all. Feels vaguely like racehorse breeder’s market or something. Like those races they have specifically for first-timer young horses
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Technically both men and women debut at balls (see wiener-staatsoper.at/en/staatsoper/) but I don’t think that’s your point. In Jewish society, Bar Mitzvah was similar (tho individual rather than collective).
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