Traditional or Non-traditional?

Every morning as Rob and I drive to work we listen to the same morning radio show out of NYC.  It brightens up our mornings.  The other day I was listening to this show after dropping Rob off and heading to my office and they were talking about this woman who called into the show and was about to propose to her boyfriend because she wanted to get engaged and thought he was never going to ask her.  The next day she called back and said that her boyfriend said yes, but also told her that he wished she would have let him propose.  After that a number of women called in; some saying that they had proposed to their boyfriends, and others saying that after hearing the show they were now considering proposing to their boyfriend.

I read online that the only day where it is traditional for women to propose to men is on February 29th, Leap Year day.  Interesting little tidbit of information if you are ever on Jeopardy.

I am not a super traditional person, but the woman proposing to the man just seems weird to me.  Then I ask myself why it seems so weird.  Both people are part of the relationship and technically have equal rights to asking for the others' hand in marriage so why is the man the one who is expected to propose?  Perhaps it is connected with the man's role as the leader and initiator of the relationship....which if that is the case, then I definitely agree that the man should be the leader.  I am not all that traditional, but I never would have even thought about proposing to Rob, (although I did get him an engagement ring that I carried around for a while whenever we were together, "just in case" he were to pop the question).  I found it quite interesting that so many women were open to proposing to their boyfriend after hearing about this topic on the radio.  I think I kind of like things as they are, with the man doing the proposing.