Posted on 11/02/2023 2:24:18 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
This year’s Miss Universe pageant will feature at least two trans women for first time, after 23-year-old flight attendant Marina Machete was last week named Miss Portugal.
Machete will compete for the crown at the 72nd Miss Universe competition in El Salvador this November alongside Rikkie Kollé, who in July became the first transgender winner of Miss Netherlands.
In a video posted to the Portuguese pageant’s YouTube channel ahead of the contest, Machete spoke about trans rights as part of her platform, describing rising levels of “transphobia and intolerance” worldwide as “alarming.” She added that it was “heartwarming” to see the Miss Universe Organization, which changed its rules to allow trans contestants in 2012, being inclusive and “breaking boundaries.”
“As a trans woman I’ve been through many obstacles along the way, but fortunately, and especially with my family, love proved to be stronger than ignorance,” she said in the video.
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It takes a man to be a woman.
I have Miami Vice, Magnum PI, and Seinfeld.
I don’t always feel like reading.
I have older movies as well.
I guess my main “point” is disgust with current society.
There was a movie in 1969 called The Queen.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-queen-1969
“The 1967 All-America Camp Beauty Pageant. From all over America they came, “each a winner in her own right,” the champions in their local contests, hoping to be named the best drag queen of them all.”
“Andy Warhol passed up an invitation to sit on the panel of judges.”
All male transvestites.
Right. Lola will prevail.
I kind of thought they were obsolete. I’m surprised to hear they’re still going.
I remember these pageants being kind of a big deal when I was a kid. But I haven’t heard much about them in a few years.
It figures the lefties are turning them in to freak shows like they do everything they touch.
Yeah. I can plunge and clean my toilet that night.
“I wonder how the feminists can justify men taking over, and often winning contests that used to be between women.”
The feminist movement was never about women’s rights. I think Rush pointed that out several times. I was hoping those two clowns that took over Rush’s time slot would pick of the slack and fill his shoes. Never happened. Sometimes I wonder if they are leftists themselves.
“But I haven’t heard much about them in a few years.”
They’ve faded since the promotion of ladylike, clean cut femininity has become unacceptable.
Was not Gaza available for this event?
Paging Water-Ski Fonzie.
Yep. Exactly
You are right the real women are the ones who must stop this BS. It should note fall on them but it has.
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Bud
Light
That I don’t have problems with. It’s not physical contest
Neil Patrick Harris, Paul Shaffer, James Corden and Jim Parsons will be added to the panel of judges. Back the Bulge will be the theme of this exciting competition.
Anyone who stoops to watch such trash should be ashamed of themselves.
It’s like they say, this competition is no longer a beauty contest.
If you judge beauty, no must be one of those low-down, rotten Neanderthal HETEROSEXUALS.
A bevy of beauties! Just like in Victoria’s Secret.
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