Comments on: On Beauty Pageants

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:35:57 +0000

Ah, yes. Who could forget Janina San Miguel?

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:32:45 +0000

I expect the best in everyone. *diplomat*

By: Jethro

Jethro — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:36:06 +0000

Pageants were never meant to be consumed by anything that possessed grey matter.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:22:10 +0000

These are people who sashay across the world's television screens wearing nearly nothing , while apparently believing that they are promoting values like "intelligence, good manners and culture" (thank you Wikipedia) WHY IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU EXPECTING THEM TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER ANY SORT OF INTELLIGENT QUESTION?!? You evil, evil, evil chauvinist pig, imposing your impossible ideals on those poor women.

By: Levi

Levi — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:52:29 +0000

And anyway, when will they ever steer clear of that stupendously hackneyed phrase, “world peace”?

I don’t think they really say “world peace”. LOL It’s just that Miss Congeniality made such an impression on pop culture.

By: Bryan Manzana

Bryan Manzana — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:28:20 +0000

“This made me furrow my eyebrows to the point that for a brief moment I must have resembled a bulldog.”

I wonder if you also sounded like one? “Arruugh?” :))

Kidding aside, I quite agree with your points. I’ve suspected that questions given to the contestants of such “contests” are given beforehand. It’s quite sad that the organizers of these events are only looking for the best crowd-pleasers, which almost equate to the most beautiful contestants. They do not want to embarrass their contestants (and therefore, “shame” the pageant) by a contestant’s poorly contemplated answer or whatnot.

And anyway, when will they ever steer clear of that stupendously hackneyed phrase, “world peace”?

By: phi

phi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:14 +0000

I don’t feel any pressure right now.
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Confident!

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:05:41 +0000

The answers weren’t good either even though they were plastic and mechanical. There was this one person who was asked why she’d like to be famous given that there is invasion of privacy, etc. Her answer was that.. well, she was already famous. It didn’t make sense to me. Lol.
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I always thought the Q&A was supposed to measure intelligence. They’re supposed to measure confidence? I’d accept pa if they’re used to measure articulation eh. Because they’re ambassadors, blah blah. O:
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*shrug* They’re teenagers taught to be pretty.