Miss Universe Pageant Tonight!!!

[arely staircase]

Does anyone give a shit?

I don't.

What are your thoughts on such pageants generally? I think they are an antiquated ceremonial objectification of women, surprisingly so even in a world in which objectification of women is common. I think they are crass and shallow even in a world in which crassness and shallowness are common.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Beauty pageants are so 1950's...

My god!!! What about Sputnik???

[longship]

2. When somebody like Marie Curie wins, I'll pay attention.

Otherwise, it's utter rubbish.

[arely staircase]

3. +1 nt

[Laffy Kat]

4. Can't believe we haven't evolved beyond beauty pageants yet.

[Bob Jones]

5. Sexist garbage. Anyone who participates...hell, anyone who *watches* this kind of patriarchal filth

should be ashamed of themselves.

[William769]

6. In the cesspool bigoted Country of Mother Russia.

I damn sure don't give a shit!

[Warpy]

7. Cattle auction.

It's what my mother called the debutante circuit, a marital slave auction. Just entering local pageants will up your marital stock value.

The really sad part now is that surgical enhancement is now necessary since women are expected to look like models with eating disorders who weren't considered thin enough and were Photoshopped into a "near death" body weight.

I won't be watching. It has never appealed to me, it's appeal is mostly to men and partially to young women who are looking for fashion role models.

As a poster above said, wake me up when a Marie Curie wins or when life accomplishments will be a factor instead of just tits and ass and youth.