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Who Won't Be Crowned the Next Miss Philippines?

GiggleSugar — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:15:00 -0700

Girlfriend kicked butt in the evening gown and swimsuit competitions, but opened her mouth and screwed her standing with a rambling response about like such as, haha, omigod, only being 17-years-old, so sorry for this sh*tty answer, wait, this is the top 10? No joke. We should at least give the girl credit for maintaining a genuinely fake smile the whole way through. Desperate times call for desperate smiling . . .

(Thanks, eBaum's World!)

Brace Yourself: Lil Pageant Queens

GiggleSugar — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:54:47 -0800

They know how to bat those false eyelashes, smile real pretty, pose for the camera, and strut in a bathing suit. They're pageant queens and they're only six. VH1's Little Beauties: Ultimate Kiddie Queen Showdown follows four girls (and their hypercritical stage mothers) through the preparatory process and behind-the-scenes emotions leading up to the crowning of one ~~cutie~~ "ultimate beauty." The take-home lesson? There's no such thing as natural beauty. That's why there's Aqua Net.

Flashback: Pageant Queen Disaster

GiggleSugar — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:00:00 -0700

Is this prima donna really tooting her horn to the Star Wars theme song? This is the wrong place and time to let your freak flag fly, but I think our lovely contestant knows that she doesn't have a chance in hell of winning this competition. She's not only tone deaf, but girlfriend ~~dances~~ waddles like a penguin (fast forward to 1:15). Star-spangled unitard, shoulder cleavage and decorative arm streamers? Takes guts.

If She Only Had A Brain...

GiggleSugar — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:00:00 -0700

...This is what she would have said. And if I only had a heart, I'd stop ridiculing her already. So much for that.

Beauty And The Brain Fart

GiggleSugar — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:00:00 -0700

Perhaps we've been a little too hard on Miss Teen South Carolina. And I say this because I just came across this old video of Miss Hawaii (Ha-Vie-Ee), who proves to be even more brain blank. For crying out loud, she's not even thinking on the spot here. She's reciting something she's had months to practice and she still somehow screws up!? (At least the spackled-on smile and mile wide should pads make up for it, right?)

Miss Teen S.C. Explains Away Her Incoherence

GiggleSugar — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:00:00 -0700

How Miss Teen S.C. can muster up the smile power to make an appearance on "The Today Show" is beyond me. I don't think girlfriend understands that she's the laughing-stock of the country right now. So she's back to recite her newly revised and rehearsed answer to the question she flunked Friday night. She also regurgitates a bunch of other prepared, pageant-style remarks to make us think she can do more than smile and nod. Sigh...

Miss Teen S.C. Can't Answer A Question

GiggleSugar — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:00:00 -0700

We won't even begin to dissect the numerous grammatical problems with this response, but we will amuse ourselves with the content of her answer. Miss Teen South Carolina was asked a question about Americans and their poor geography skills, and she responded with something along the lines of blah, blah, blah, blah...doing goodwill abroad. WHAT?!

Not Fake: Hungary Crowns Miss Plastic Surgery

TresSugar — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0700

Perky contestants vied for the crown of Miss Plastic Hungary this week. Only women who have gone under the knife were invited to participate in the artificial-beauty pageant held in Budapest. Botox wouldn't qualify you, but one contestant's surgically adjusted toes did get her included. Reka Urban, 22, won the (plastic?) crown, and she received an apartment in Budapest as her prize. Check out this video from the contest, and tell me what you make of such an unabashedly fake beauty pageant!

They've Got Beauty Covered - the Miss Headscarf Pageant

CitizenSugar — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:00:13 -0700

A Danish television station held a “Miss Headscarf 2008” beauty contest to show “cool Muslim women who often make up a very fashion-conscious and style-confident part of the Danish street scene.” The hope behind the pageant was to quell the controversy over calls for a ban on Islamic dress in public and foster healthy debate.

One behind the pageant says, "We would like to contact all the Muslim women who are seldom heard in the debate but are often just as preoccupied with fashion and beauty as other women." Entrants in the pageant don't have to be Muslim, they just need to submit a photo of themselves wearing a headscarf. One of the contestants in her video says, "It's about the time the media talked to us, and not about us all the time."

Not everyone thinks it's a great idea. To see why not, the BBC video of the story, and the winner, read more.

This idea is widely criticized by Islamic traditionalists, one of whom, a spokesman for the Islamic Society, said: “I strongly advise the girls to shun the competition," and went on to compare the women competing to nuns competing in a beauty pageant. This is the second conflict Danish media has had with Islamist fundamentalism since 2005 when a newspaper depicted the image of the prophet Mohammed, which sparked outrage and the threats of attack. The winner of the controversial contest is 18-year-old Huda Falah.

Can a contest like this foster healthy debate and a greater understanding of women in the faith? Does the very notion of the pageant go against their religion?

Source

Miss Nepal Pageant Not Looked at Kindly by Maoists

CitizenSugar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:00:00 -0700

If you're a Nepalese woman in search of a tiara, the outlook is bleak. The ruling Maoist party has postponed the Miss Nepal contest, set to be held this weekend, for the sixth time this year. In the battle between beauty queens and bureaucrats, oddly their takes on the issue are at once at odds and the same.

The women who were supposed to have been in the canceled pageant say they've been "victimized" by the government's decision. The government says they were trying to stop a practice that they say discriminates against some ethnic groups and demeans women. Specifically, according to the Maoist's most senior woman, it's not fair to shorter, darker women and further objectifies the winners by making them appear in toothpaste and shampoo ads.

To see the women's rights ramifications, read more.

The pageant was set to take place in the army's headquarters given the tumult surrounding it. One of the contestants said the cancelation violates women's rights, saying, "I feel like we are under a dictatorship more than being a republic or democratic." The crux of the argument appears to be whether a beauty pageant can further a woman's skills and lifestyle, or whether being judged on looks is a degradation above all else. That argument, however, may be covering up the growing perception that the Maoist party is puritanical and obsessed with social control.

Whose side are you on? Is it a woman's right to be in a pageant? Is the real issue here government control?

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