Posted on 06/10/2014 7:04:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Beauty-pageant interviews tend to be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Usually, answers become famous by being the subject of mockery for a flubbed phrase or a nonsensical answer (see recent response by Miss South Carolina in 2007 and Miss Utah in 2013).
But a couple contestants in Sunday’s Miss USA pageant drew attention for coherent answers on some relatively touchy issues. The problem was that Miss Nevada Nia Sanchez and Miss Louisiana Brittany Guidry’s views on a couple issues of the day didn’t sit well with liberal commentators.
Take Sanchez, who went on to win the competition. When asked to address sexual assault on college campuses, her suggestion that women should learn self-defense abilities proved controversial.
I believe that some colleges may potentially be afraid of having a bad reputation, and that would be a reason it could be swept under the rug, because they don’t want that to come out into the public. But I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. Myself, as a fourth-degree black-belt, I learned from a young age you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself, and I think that is something we should start to implement for a lot of women.
Cosmopolitan editor Elisa Benson and the Huffington Post’s Mandy Velez both criticized Sanchez for her answer:
I get that the college sexual assault problem can’t be solved in 30 secs but still icky to pretend like self defense is the answer. #MissUSA — Elisa Benson (@elisabenson) June 9, 2014
Not happy she won.. RT @taramurtha Miss Nevada says teaching women self defense is the best way to reduce sexual assault on college campuses — Mandy Velez (@mandy_velez) June 9, 2014
Let’s hope Nevada uses her media tour to reiterate that teaching girls self defense is NOT the best way to protect against assault #MissUSA — Mandy Velez (@mandy_velez) June 9, 2014
Other Twitter users took to social media to voice their opposition to her answer:
Ms Nevada’s solution to sexual assault is to teach women to defend themselves. How about teach men not to rape? #MissUSA #YesAllWomen — Karen Eileen (@KarenDuhe) June 9, 2014
Ms Nevada’s solution to sexual assault is to teach women to defend themselves. How about teach men not to rape? #MissUSA #YesAllWomen — Doxing-Rx (@DoxingRx) June 9, 2014
Miss Nevada needs to read up on #YesAllWomen. Girls don’t need to protect themselves, men should not attack women. #MissUSA — Joshua Louvat (@JoshuaLately) June 9, 2014
oh yeah and you are supposed to pee on him
Concealed carry?
all publicity is good publicity for the advertisers.
until the organizers admit this is just a bikini contest with a scholarship prize, sound bite controversies is all they have.
What would happen to the competition if the contestants were given free reign to wear any bathing suit design?
what’s the diff
How Novel!!???
Maybe someone should have told Hitler not to GAS Jews in the 1930's.
That would have stopped him!!
There were a couple of great answers that I would expect my own daughters to give. Then there were some air headed responses that made us shake our head. But absolutely Louisiana and Nevada answers were surprisingly solid. Better than Miss America answers I have heard.
” their defense would be to castrate all men. “
That won’t stop rape. The reason Muslims had eunuchs in their harems was not that they could not have sex with the girls, it was so that they would produce no offspring.
Eunuchs are capable of intromission.
It’s a trap. Just another way of harassing people for their views. Girls should learn to defend themselves, with karate or guns, and rapists should be castrated and thrown into a pit.
Here is a question for you: What is the basis of truth that informs us that rape is wrong and therefore a valid truth that men should accept? I know, but I doubt that the leftists have a clue because their values are blowing in the wind. They really don’t want any solid basis for truth because all truth is not convenient for them. So here we are. If a man doesn’t know rape is wrong, it is because he doesn’t care. A woman who can whip his butt can teach him that it is wrong and you may get your butt whipped if you try again. Or shot if in Texas!
“... and get arrested for it because they slept with someone as drunk as they were.”
That’s not the problem. The problem is that they DON’T get arrested. What the colleges do is have a Star Chamber proceeding and expel the male student involved regardless of what he says or what witnesses say. The student is not allowed to have legal counsel and is often not allowed to face or question his accuser. Sometimes he doesn’t even get to be present. At least one school has it as official policy that if both students are drunk and have sex, it is automatically the male’s fault.
Male students are fighting back. It has been noticed that Title IX is sex-neutral - it says that schools cannot treat the two sexes differently. It does not say that females always get preference. Male students who have been expelled in such proceedings are filing Title IX suits - and winning.
Looks like they both got the memo.
Well then they’ll demand the “Lorena Bobbitt” approach.
I think you’re overlooking the real significance of “teach men not to rape” and of the whole leftist reaction to Ms. Sanchez remarks.
She gave a sensible response to the question with “sexual assault” given its normal English denotation. The left uses “rape” and “sexual assault” in elastic Newspeak versions which always carry the connotation of the English word or phrase, but with fluid denotations, allowing them to apply the condemnation properly applied to what the English word denotes to other things as suits their political expediency. (Think of the way they use “racist”.)
Misreading body language and kissing a woman who does not want to be kissed is no longer the “stolen kiss” of romantic poetry, but (when it suits the left) “sexual assault”. The twentieth century practice of college practice of women taking a bit of “dutch courage” before giving away their virtue now becomes the basis of a claim of “rape” against the young man who takes up the offer (should the woman regret it in the morning). Neither of these instances of the Newspeak “sexual assault” is reasonably addressed by having an advanced level in a martial art, and neither of them is what normal, sane, English-speakers mean by “sexual assault”.
To the left, I'm sure the castration of all men would be an acceptable solution.
“Surrender to the attacker motivated by guilt at being the cause of his rage”
Should read: “Surrender to the attacker motivated by White Privilege Guilt at being the cause of his rage”
Josh, sweetie, who said she was talking about MEN raping women?
Report for reeducation.
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