Now I have spoken of the insane
need for bigots and haters to go on and on about how something is
“Not American” usually when dealing with idiots who post stupid
hate speech when some small child sings the National Anthem. I have
run off at the mouth more times than I care to think about when
trying to deal with people who associate being American with being
White Anglo Saxon and Pale. (My version of WASP for the record.) So
I feel no need to go into all of that again, so just let me say if
you are still like morons posting hate speech because an AMERICAN
(She's from New York for Krishna's sake!) won the Miss America
Pageant and happens to be of Indian Descent, well grow up or get
lost! The 19th
century is that way.
Nope, this little rant is a bit
more odd. I was scrolling through all of the comments in several
posts about this particular debacle and I was struck with the
downright silliness of some of the comments. People went on and on
again about how the Loser of the contest better represented American
values, traditions and morals. How a girl who hunted, fished and God
only knows what else was a better representative of the American Way
of Life. (AWL for short, I was going to call it AWOL but that seemed
a bit much.) As I read these I couldn't help but snigger not so
quietly to myself and I decided to address the main problem with this
whole attitude. This one is prolly going to get me severely yelled
at, but hey I am used to it by now.
Let us get one thing completely and
utterly straight here. ANY Beauty Pageant is not about how honest,
forthright and true (Wait is that the Boy Scouts?) the participants
are. It isn't about how their values most reflect the values of
their country, state, county etc. The simple fact is that any Beauty
Pageant is, well, just about Beautiful the participants are. The
winner wins because she or he is the hottest, sexiest person on the
stage. It is that simple. Sure we have sections dedicated to
talent, but no one wins because of how well they play the trumpet or
twirl a baton. Yeah we have parts where the participants tell how
they want to solve world hunger or bring about peace for everyone,
but no one ever won because their speech was the prettiest.
Beauty Pageants are one of the last
and most powerful nods to Male Lust. Look at any major pageant and
most minor ones. Every single girl participating is no more than a
size 3 or 4. They have no visible scars or deformities and usually
they are more than a little gifted in the upstairs/downstairs
department. In other words, if you are attracted to skinny overly
made up women, they are all smoking hot.
So let us just say for the sake of
argument, that Miss Cornfield actually did better represent Truth,
Justice and the American Way (No wait that's Superman.) than the
person who won. Guess what? It doesn't really matter. The powers
that be obviously felt that the woman who won was hotter and sexier
than the losers. After all Miss America is a Product that is sold
for an entire year by One person. Sure a good personality helps, but
pretty faces sell products.
What kills me is that women still
have not rose up against these spectacles. Thousands of women world
wide still primp, starve and prance in some insane attempt to please
others, and it starts young. Anyone who has watched even a single
episode of Toddlers and Tiaras should feel sick to their stomachs at
how Mothers (Usually earlier victims of this same plague.) dress
their kids up in outfits that would make Madonna blush in shame and
prance around in front of judges desperately trying to get their
approval.
What I would love to see is True
Beauty Contests where people are actually judged by how talented and
how good they really are. Contests where people are judged by how
much they can change the world and make it a better place for every
one. As long as we focus on superficial beauty which will fade as
time goes on, we will never see the real beauties of our world.
In closing, let me just say that I
have met many “beautiful” people who were some of the cruelest
and ugliest of people and I have met some incredibly BEAUTIFUL people
who would never even make it into a Miss America Contest. Beauty in
all of its many shapes and forms is in the eyes of the beholder.
End of Rant
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