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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:32 AM Original message |
Is Miss America or Miss Universe or beauty pageants in general even relevant today? |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. Has been a joke for the last 30 years at least. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
2. not in my world |
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NC_Nurse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. no, not even. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. I doubt if they were ever relevant. |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. IDK |
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ROakes1019 (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
5. beauty pageants |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
6. Sure, how else will Fox "News" choose their future anchors? |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 11:14 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. ...and repuke vice presidential candidates |
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Desertrose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
7. Only to the ones who participate in it.... |
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uberblonde (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. Don't be silly! |
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T Wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
9. It's not a beauty pageant - it's a scholarship competition. And if so, isn't this as valid as |
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tbyg52 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:40 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. It's a beauty pageant *and* a scholarship competition! |
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Stagecoach (468 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
11. I don't think they are |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
12. Miss America is about as relevant as Perez Hilton. |
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OKNancy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
13. Different strokes |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
15. If it were still relevant the pagaents wouldn't be on cable stations now |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
16. We need future pr0n stars ...it's a jobs thing. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
18. I don't see the impulse for physical perfection ending any time soon. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
19. It sustains the rule that women are supposed to be, first and foremost, decorative. nt |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. IMHO neither pageant is relevant, but point of correction: It was the Miss USA , not Miss America |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
21. Mass media sets the agenda. |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
22. Miss Universe is total joke... |
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carlyhippy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
23. It's still big business, kids from infants are in pageants |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. To a particular subset of the population, yes, |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. Was it ever "relevant"?????? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
26. I dunno, I prefer going to a titty bar myself |
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foxfeet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Pageants pretty much ARE titty bars. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 03:58 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Yep - that's where I was going with that :) |
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