Such events are nothing more than an opportunity to ogle gorgeous,scantily-clad women and pit them against each other – so why achieve they still exist?
The most awkward moment of the Miss Universe pageant this week wasn’t host Steve Harvey naming the wrong winner on live television - it’s that in 2015, a pageant still exists that parades women around in bikinis for the honor of winning a sash and tiara. That’s the actual embarrassment. That Harvey couldn’t distinguish one pretty woman for another is almost poetic, and because in pageants like Miss Universe,Miss America and Miss USA, women aren’t individuals anyway. They’re literal symbols – unnamed besides the state or country they’re there to represent. It’s the ultimate display of women as interchangeable, or vying for the proper to be the shiniest thing in the room. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com