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The Miss Universe Pageant Is Still Sexist as Hell, and Not What We Need Right Now
Daily Beast ^ | Noivember 27, 2017 | Amy Zimmerman

Posted on 11/27/2017 7:59:03 AM PST by C19fan

Edited on 11/27/2017 8:07:24 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Nowhere is the gendered double standard more apparent than in the Miss Universe competition.

While women in all industries face professional hurdles, pageants are one of the only workplaces where they are required to wear ball gowns while doing so. In this annual competition, women are expected to be gorgeous, intelligent, and poised; to look good in a bikini, ace a question-and-answer segment, represent their entire nation and walk perfectly in high heels. Meanwhile Steve Harvey, the reigning male host, automatically exceeds expectations if he manages to read out the correct winner (and was somehow rehired after f***ing up his one and only job).


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: beauty; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; missuniverse; pageants; snowflakes; southafrica; steveharvey; whatever; women; zozibinitunzi
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To: C19fan

How would you make it not sexist? Have male contestants? Wouldn’t they look cute prancing about with a silly-a$$ smile and saying how much they want to bring peace to the world, save the big fishes, and sing kumbaya.

Or should it be one of each of the LGBT gang? I hear they added some letters, so it’s LLGGBTTYDBSGRY#&H$^^^ or some such thing.

And this year’s winner, is a non-binary fluid dickless person who goes by the pronoun “zey” and uses the restroom of “zey’s” choice.


41 posted on 11/27/2017 9:45:05 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: robroys woman

The suggestion might have been that only a very few women look good in bikini & high heels.

Where was that beach village in Italy with an ordinance that allowed women to go topless but ONLY if they met accepted standards for young female beauty? Local police did the judging.


42 posted on 11/27/2017 9:56:31 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: smokingfrog

Butterface!


43 posted on 11/27/2017 10:00:12 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: TigerClaws
Canada should have won.

Do we know she didn't? You never know with Steve Harvey hosting.

44 posted on 11/27/2017 10:05:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: robroys woman

Believe me - it is!


45 posted on 11/27/2017 10:09:38 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Now that I think about it, you’re right!


46 posted on 11/27/2017 10:13:01 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

A thirteen year-old boy is going to respond to that drive somehow. Would you rather he do it by watching Miss Universe or by dialing up some internet porn?


47 posted on 11/27/2017 10:14:46 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: smokingfrog
It’s educational. I learned that Finland is also called Suomi. :)

FYI 25% of Finns speak Swedish because Finnish is difficult to learn.

48 posted on 11/27/2017 10:17:06 AM PST by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: robroys woman

and us.


49 posted on 11/27/2017 10:28:07 AM PST by Bob Celeste
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To: C19fan

Don’t like it, don’t watch it. These leftwingers endlessly conflate totally innocuous things into major issues.


50 posted on 11/27/2017 10:32:11 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: C19fan

What about the pageant s racism? I think Miss Mexico has a minimum height requirement of 5 foot 6, which leaves out the great majority of indio and mestizo women.


51 posted on 11/27/2017 10:40:17 AM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: C19fan

They really must stop forcing young women to enter beauty pageants at gunpoint.


52 posted on 11/27/2017 11:00:34 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: jazminerose
They really must stop forcing young women to enter beauty pageants at gunpoint.

Seriously, we must stop making women take on traditionally womans roles, like modeling for example. The horror that some women must still be models in our enlightened society...BTW, I was really pleased that South Africa won last night. Besides being drop dead gorgeous, she was a "don't be a victim" promoter. Gotta love a beautiful woman who throat punches her car jacking assailant and lives to inspire others not to be preyed upon.

53 posted on 11/27/2017 11:08:31 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: tumblindice

You can say that again. NOT attractive at all.


54 posted on 11/27/2017 12:37:23 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SW6906
Pictures of all of the European candidates: Safe for work

Hot dog! I want to move to an FSU country!

55 posted on 11/27/2017 1:13:42 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Actually I believe a granny did compete in one of the pageants.


56 posted on 11/27/2017 2:11:01 PM PST by redangus (actually hit her?)
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To: Magnum44
I feel like this thread needs a pic...


57 posted on 11/27/2017 3:40:09 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: smokingfrog

Looks like Peter Stormare.


58 posted on 11/27/2017 3:52:51 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hmmmm....that reminds me. Ice skating in the Winter Olympics is coming up. Wonder when the trials are.


59 posted on 11/27/2017 5:30:04 PM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Magnum44

I didn’t watch, but she sounds like a winner!


60 posted on 11/28/2017 4:52:47 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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