{"id":1678,"date":"2016-06-18T18:15:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2016-06-18T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T18:15:53","slug":"miss-america-swimming-suit-beauty-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"With or Without Bikinis, Why Beauty Pageants Need to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span>t\u2019s the year 2019, we are nearing the end of a decade and a lot has changed. Honda <\/p>has announced <\/a>that by 2022 it will have electric cars that charge in 15 minutes, Japan is in the process of replacing real human interaction with robots, the highlight of the decade, at least as far as women go, is the MeToo movement. Meanwhile, the Miss Universe pageant refuses to do away with the \u00a0controversial swimsuit round, dropped by Miss America.\n\nThe Miss Universe pageant says it is \u201cby women, for women\u201d and \u201cempowers women to realise their personal, professional and philanthropic goals through experiences that build self-confidence and act as catalysts for future success\u201d, while\u00a0completely forgetting that woman are judged basis their ability to twirl, sashay, and pout better than the other gorgeous women in the room – all of whom are possibly aspiring doctors, pilots, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, but now stand reduced to a measurement statistic.\n\nThe real question we should be asking post #MeToo<\/a> is: Is there some reason that beauty pageants still exist? As if the world didn\u2019t have enough outlets for casual sexism today, we have somehow decided to retain a pageant from the days of the World Wars as a reminder that women are still expected to dress up and look pretty in the hope that the crowd will give them a round of applause and some whistles.\n\nMiss Universe, or any other beauty pageant for that matter is the most dishonest talent hunting show in the world. Even Splitsvilla treats its women contestants better. The pageants claim to pit well-rounded woman against each other. But it always end up looking like a wet T-shirt contests with a patriotic sash, and we fool ourselves into thinking we\u2019re rooting for more than just physical beauty.\n\nWe\u2019re not. Let\u2019s face it, anything once owned by Donald Trump is not judging women on any parameter other than how hot they are in different \u201clooks\u201d. (Trump reportedly boasted about having walked into the dressing room of contestants and joked about his obligation to sleep with them.) The men of Mr Universe are expected to lift a stupid amount of weights, and flex each part of their body until their veins look like a map of the Delhi metro<\/a>. At least that is one, very specific skill they are asked to showcase.\n\nAn astute reader will at this point in the debate bring up the \u201cquestions\u201d<\/a>. Most questions on world peace and hunger don\u2019t even pretend to be anything more than sound bytes. A few are downright insulting. \u00a0Take for instance a question asked<\/a> in 1969, when people were advanced enough to go to the moon: \u201cIf a man flew down from the moon into your hometown, what would you do to entertain him.\u201d The only correct answer to this is presumably, \u201cWhatever he wants me too, baby.\u201d\n\nThe problem with the \u201cbeauty pageant\u201d is no matter how hard it tries to be well-rounded, it will never convince us that it is not specifically designed to whittle it\u2019s contestants down to one dimension. If it were, we\u2019d have more Miss Universes solving climate change instead of inaugurating bakeries before fading out of everyone\u2019s memory. Some of these women are competitive swimmers, others are excellent photographers, heck some are even industrial engineers, but once they enter the pageant world they\u2019re all the same: Beautiful women who for some reason are expected to be experts in foreign policy.\n\n\u00a0\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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