If you can prove that my "don't conform man!!!" advocacy is bullshit, please go on. I am more than ready to debate about this.
Why should one encourage something that doesn't seem to be actually rational. Why should it be required to pay to look nice to assist to a prom without fearing judgment from others? No one should be forced to conform to that. Actually, that shouldn't even exist in the first place.
And I don't put emphasis on the money here, my point is mostly about judgment. Buying something just by fear from judgment proves that there is something wrong that must be fixed, and you surely can't fix it by conforming.

... But maybe I'm wrong. Please prove me wrong: don't let me fail so blatantly at understanding the Truth behind all this.

You have just won my respect.

Prom is meant to be a formal event. I'm all for not just doing what everyone does, but you shouldn't be a dick and ruin the formality of the event just because you want to be different. Are you going to wear flannel pajamas to your wedding whenever you get married? I heard it's pretty expensive to get a tux for that.

Saying that you'd somehow create a better society by wearing a pirate costume to prom is ludicrous.

If you actually had some sort of intense desire to reform society, maybe the best place to start isn't your highschool prom.

I like how the woman on the right is like "We are not amused."

Both are totally missing my point.
I'm not advocating to be non-conformist on purpose. I'm advocating that there shouldn't be any kind of dressing rule that comes along with "formal" events. If someone feels like buying a tux, go for it. If you feel like dressing as a pirate, cool. If you want to dress normally, good for you.
What I don't want is people judging/rejecting/etc. on people that do not want to conform on irrational rules, that is, someone that felt like not wearing a tux.

It's cool, I killed that bitch later.

What's a prom

You find a date, rent an expensive suit/tux, go to the prom in an unnecessary limousine, grind your frontal (but clothed) genitalia upon your date's rear end for a few hours, possibly stopping to get some punch, grind more, and afterwards you usually end up bowling or engaging in sexual intercourse.

tl;dr: A place where everyone but you gets some pussy.

...but why

So that you can have a one night stand with your chemistry lab partner in a cheap hotel room, of course.

But people do that anyway...

Not after spending $800 to attend and prepare for a dance, they don't.

Yeah, not $800. $100 I've seen regularly in NZ for people going to clubs and doing much the same as a prom minus tux's. Much more fashionable to go as party rockers :3

Erry day I'm shufflin

Quote from Azrael

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you will looks like a douchebag if you don't wear a tux.

I don't want to looks like a douchebag...

You can always make your outfit out of Duck® Brand duct tape and win a scholarship. Serious.

She kept hinting that she liked me, so I asked her to prom, and she said yes

Now that half the trouble is over, I have encountered some more problems. Though we are still going in a group of our friends, I still need to pay for her ticket. What else am I supposed to get for her?
-Pay for her share of dinner
-Her share of the limo fee
-A Corsage?
-???

No question mark on that corsage - don't be a scrub.

PS lol@limo

Does she also go to your school? Tell her to buy her own ticket. >_>

If you do pay for her ticket, I think she could handle her own food/limo costs.

Definitely take advice from Dem0n. Based on his Shoutbox conversations regarding women, he is an expert.