MISS AMERICA, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
May. 15th, 2010 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: Tomorrow’s Miss USA pageant is adding something new this year: cheesecake lingerie photo shoots.
Like this.
The New York Post has extensive coverage.
Not unexpectantly, some people are complaining that Donald Trump is ruining Miss USA’s wholesome image.
To which I say, “What?”
See, the problem I have with beauty pageants is NOT that they’re a commercialized big-money celebration of superficiality (which they are) but that organizers and fans of pageants refuse to admit this, and – especially in the case of the Miss USA pageant and other national titles – dress it up in patriotic drag and “wholesome” virtues to distinguish young women parading around in swimwear in front of judges from something less wholesome – like, say, wet bikini contests at the local sports bar.
Which, for my money, is like how Hooters uses the “wholesome American beauty” line to defend its “hot young waitresses with epic boobs” gimmick.
Only no one believes them. So I don’t know why Miss USA gets a free pass.
As for the pics themselves ... I’ve got ten American dollars that says The Donald thought it up as a pre-emptive strike against the next “Miss USA In Naughty Photo Shocker” scandal. I have another sawbuck that says it won’t work.
American booty,
This is dF
Like this.
The New York Post has extensive coverage.
Not unexpectantly, some people are complaining that Donald Trump is ruining Miss USA’s wholesome image.
To which I say, “What?”
See, the problem I have with beauty pageants is NOT that they’re a commercialized big-money celebration of superficiality (which they are) but that organizers and fans of pageants refuse to admit this, and – especially in the case of the Miss USA pageant and other national titles – dress it up in patriotic drag and “wholesome” virtues to distinguish young women parading around in swimwear in front of judges from something less wholesome – like, say, wet bikini contests at the local sports bar.
Which, for my money, is like how Hooters uses the “wholesome American beauty” line to defend its “hot young waitresses with epic boobs” gimmick.
Only no one believes them. So I don’t know why Miss USA gets a free pass.
As for the pics themselves ... I’ve got ten American dollars that says The Donald thought it up as a pre-emptive strike against the next “Miss USA In Naughty Photo Shocker” scandal. I have another sawbuck that says it won’t work.
American booty,
This is dF
