Did He Take This Proposal Too Far? Man Slammed for Where He Chose to Pop the Question … And Where It Left His Girlfriend

Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford criticized a man seen proposing to his girlfriend at her graduation ceremony in Melbourne, 🇦🇺Australia, in a viral video.

Ford’s tirade began with a video of the man walking up to his fiancée as she walked off the stage, diploma in hand. He then tells her, “I love you with all my heart,” before falling on his knees to propose as the audience claps.

“Stop it. Stop doing this,” Ford said to the camera in a Dec. 16 video shared on Facebook. “That is her moment. She’s graduated. We don’t know under what conditions she went to university. We don’t know how hard that was for her, but she did it by herself. That is her moment.”

In the video’s caption, Ford wrote, “Why? Why do so many men feel the need to make women’s achievements about them?”

WARNING: The video contains language which some may find offensive.

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“Why do they believe a public proposal is exactly what will make her GRADUATION better? Why can’t they just let women shine without having to draw the light towards themselves?”

Ford went on to call the proposal an “entrapment” and “not romantic.” “ow is she meant to say no when there’s an auditorium of people oohing and gasping?” Ford wrote.

“Now, the only thing people will congratulate her for at the post grad party will be her engagement. They won’t ask to see the degree, only the ring,” the activist continued.