Congratulations, you're getting married! The guy I went to prom with is now going to be your husband. I couldn't be any happier for you. But let's talk about something here.

First, this article could not sound any more condescending. Just from reading it, I felt like you were mocking me to my face. You might as well have said "nah-nanny-nah-nah, I'm marrying your prom date!" for the whole article and it would have meant the same thing.

High school is not a be-all-and-end-all. Just because it didn't work out with the guy I went to prom with, doesn't mean my love life is officially over after I get my diploma! Besides, nobody really marries their high school sweethearts anymore. If any of you readers did, congratulations, because that is extremely rare in this day and age!

Now, I didn't even have a boyfriend when I was in high school, let alone a prom date or anything else. In fact, looking back, my prom was a disaster, so it wasn't any big loss. My love life didn't actually begin until long after high school ended...but that's beside the point.

This piece is annoying - in reference to this part in particular:

"You got to go to games and support him. It kills me that I couldn't be there for him because I know I would have actually been there wholeheartedly. I would have done it out of love, not as a popularity appearance."

Because every high school girl with a boyfriend, ever, only goes to his events for clout and not out of genuine love and support, right?

Also, Victoria, I'm just kind of confused. At some points in your article, you sound like you're happy for the reader that they got to go to prom with your man and do all those fun prom things. But the rest of the article takes on a mocking tone that I'm not a fan of. The tone is seriously everything and how someone reads it in their head matters a lot.

Finally, and I hope you thought about this after your article was published. Your article, to me, seems like it creates unnecessary competition among women. We live in an incredibly sexist and misogynist society, therefore we already get enough flack from men as it is. But when this unnecessary competition-fostering comes from one of our own? Honestly, it hurts.

Victoria, I doubt you will be able to read this, especially after all the backlash you received from your original article. But I don't want to berate or make personal attacks at you because I did read your follow-up article, and I'm really sorry you had to go through that. Nobody in the world deserves that. But I just want to let you know where you went wrong writing this.

Don't lump everyone's experiences into one because everybody's high school experience was different. Some dates don't work out, and that's OK! When they don't, it's for a reason and it shouldn't mean it's the end of the world.

I really hope you take my advice in the future when you write articles, let alone articles like this. From one girl to another, I want you to do better and uplift and support your fellow woman.