Paying for a girl's night out isn't trying to buy her.
It's perfectly normal courting procedure. Whether you personally think it's right and proper or not is completely irrelevant.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 13:02, archived)

If that's normality, madam, then normality is an ass!

( Newington, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 13:03, archived)

Well we know that already.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 13:04, archived)

Yes it is normality
And it's a normality that is reflected in the original post, otherwise she wouldn't have asked nor made the edit concerning morals when pretty much everyone replied with that version of normality in mind.
( Lord Gnome, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 13:07, archived)

And that's the nail hit firmly on the head
It's courting procedure.
( Lord Gnome, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 13:04, archived)