This is so unbelievably and predictably stupid, I don’t know where to begin.
This is one of those stories where you’ll get NO PHOTOS! and NO LINKS! because they’re all too smutty for me to share and people who want to check out that kind of stuff know where to find it ...
But anyway, shall we talk about the Miss USA Pageant? You know, the one where the contestants were all photographed in suggestive poses modeling lingerie before the competition and where the “competition” requires contestants to parade on stage wearing high heels and bikinis? The one that skewered Carrie Prejean last year when she didn’t get the social agenda memo and failed to publicly support the destruction of traditional marriage? That classy, high-brow affair?
Well, it appears that this year the Miss USA Pageant might have a real scandal on its hands. It would seem that this year’s winner, Rima Fakih, posed for sexually suggestive Miss USA photos and also waltzed around in heels and a bikini for photo opps that the pageant could use for profit.
But that is not the scandalous part.
It would seem that Ms. Fakih was found to have (Ready now? Here comes the scandal!) made videos and posed for other racy photos that might have profited someone other than the Miss USA Pageant ... possibly even herself.
This is shocking stuff. So shocking, in fact, that the usual tabloids are suggesting that Ms. Fakih might be in jeopardy of losing the Miss USA crown.
What exactly is going here? Other than Donald Trump (who owns the pageant) and lots of tabloids making lots of money?
I’ll tell you what’s going on. Our warped and twisted culture simply cannot figure out how it feels about sex and female bodies. We can’t decide whether to exploit women’s bodies in pageants or “protect” them by pretending to find offense in “scandals” like this one.
The message we come away with here is that exploiting women’s bodies for money is a perfectly acceptable endeavor, as long as it’s rich old men who profit from it. Anything else is scandalous.
Might I suggest something else? That the Miss USA Pageant—with its bikini-clad contestants answering ponderous political questions on stage and its predictable sex-infused, crown-threatening “scandals” the morning after—is a complete and total joke?
Someone needs to say it. It’s a joke. But as a mother of daughters, I’m not laughing.
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Why, I repeat, WHY do the contestests do this to themselves.. they know if they win their entire life is going to be combed over with a fine tooth comb!! She had to of know pictures of her dancing on a stripper pole would come through… Think she’ll be allowed to keep the crown? I’m not so sure myself!
Great job, Danielle. You know there will still be those who will defend such nonsense. We need to ask ourselves: Are these the kind of women we want our daughters to be? No. Are these the kind of women we want our sons to date, let alone marry? No. On the other hand: Are these the kind of women who have been hurt? Yes. Are these the kind of women who are being degraded and used? Yes. Are these the kind of women who are wanting love? Yes. They need our prayers and they need some real men and women to protect them. May our Blessed Mother gather these brokenhearted lost souls and take them to her Son so they can be truly loved.
Write more about pedophile priests and not about beauty contests.
I agree about 85% on this one. Yes, the Pageant is stupid, sex-saturated and Predictable. I dont find it refreshing for the soul and overall, i find it BORING for the most part so i never watch it. However, last year a Christian woman (namely Carrie Prejean) proved that a woman, steadfast in her beliefs and religion, could get into the Pageant, be confident and determined in herself and her God, and turn some heads doing it. Why arent you defending her Danielle? You make it sound like parading around in lingerie and bikinis is the only part of the whole contest. Also, I’ve begged these questions from people like you my whole adult life: If you think this is so bad, why dont you change it, what would you do to change it so it could be more acceptable? So I ask you Danielle and anyone who responds to this, What would you have the Miss U.S.A. Pageant be?
I forgot to ad, there’s a evening gown and interview portion of the contest, so it’s not just women in bikinis
If treating women like horses and parading them around in bikinis and evening gowns while they neigh about politically correct solutions to world peace in order to determine who is more deserving of the blue ribbo…I mean crown does not constitute the demeaning objectification of women, I’m not sure what is…
You didn’t mention the question about the Arizona law with which the Oklahoma entrant was sandbagged for saying Arizona had the right to pass it whereas the winner got a softball question (in the estimation of “progressives”) affirming birth control pills and she still managed to miss the point in answering. It’s all bogus and degrading as you said as well as self-promotional like “The Donald.”
This is another in a long, long line of mixed messages our politically “correct” society sends out all the time.
Johnny Catholic, what would I do to improve the Miss USA Pageant? Get rid of it altogether.
I’ve never seen Miss USA, only Miss America which, to me, seems somewhat classier at least - and definitely less trashy. And one Miss America from several years ago - Angela Baraquio - was even a practicing Catholic. You can read more about her at http://tonyrossi.blogspot.com/2008/06/she-wouldnt-even-be-here-if-wed.html
I have stopped watching Miss America (though I do like the talent portion) and Miss USA, and Miss Universe and Miss World and all the other “Miss” pageants years ago.
That being said, the “Mrs” pageants (and there are some, most are on cable) are WAY more classier. Yes, they still have the swimsuit competition (most are one piece-no one over 30 should wear a bikini no matter how great shape you’re in) but the gowns are way more modest. Most are mothers with kids (albeit some are adults themselves) so the answers to politically correct questions are more family oriented.
I also find the international pageants are also more modest, particularly from those countries with strict moral values that is more in line with Christianality even if they’re not.
It’s sexual exploitation such as these pageants that gives rise to disgust, sometimes extreme, among decent people. It is such decadence that appalls most Muslims. Pornography (let’s call it what it is)is a $12-billion annual business in California alone. Pray that the revolution against our rotting Western society will not be violent. It’s coming.
I watched the news report on this….how could they have selected the first place winner over the the runner-up? It is beyound beleif. I agree with Danielle; it is a joke, an unfunny joke.
I am laughing out loud right because, like usual, no one wants to answer my question directly. Let me ask this question then: What would the Miss Catholic Paegeant look like then: An interview on how much this world sucks, a talent competition that must include evangelization, a 5 layers of clothing in the evening competion, a wearing of shapeless, plaid, ankle to neck length jumpers and finally, a critique of sexual misconduct and sin purging. Sound about right? Serious, I dont see you women objecting to the Mr. Universe or Mr. Atlas competitions or the strong man competitions. Arent those just as objectifying of men? or does that not matter? We all get upset when a woman is scantaly clad in a movie, but Taylor Lautner in ‘New Moon’ or Christian Bale in ‘The Dark Knight’ is fine, right? I cant stand hypocricy!!!
In response to your questions, Johnny Catholic, I would have to say that there wouldn’t be a Catholic USA pageant, at least not in the form of what you’re thinking, because prudishness isn’t the cure of an over-sexed culture, it’s the opposite extreme and verges on scrupulosity and saying that women are a temptation and have to be covered in order to protect others from their sensuality. Yes, men are objectified in the same manner as women quite often and it goes without saying that both are wrong, in fact I don’t watch any form of pageantry including the Mr. Universe program, which having watched once I found it to be not only humiliating to the men but just kind of gross to watch. The fact is that in our society something has gone seriously wrong in the way we view ourselves and each other. Modesty does not mean walking around in shapeless sacks, it means having respect for yourself as a person and dressing in a way that is not provocative to others or to yourself… in all things we must have love for each other and ourselves, it’s just part of being Catholic.
Johnny Catholic: Why have pageants at all? The fact that you wrote that question shows that you have bought in to the sexploitation culture. Academic bowls, sports competitions, speech contests and the like give an outlet to a healthy desire for competition. I happen to know a contestant who was a state Miss USA champion and entered last year’s Miss USA competition. She could have won many competitions of the type that I mentioned above. But since she is absolutely gorgeous, and since there’s no scholarship money in academic bowls and speech contests, she persuaded her parents to allow her to parade around half naked in many pageants, hoping to get her education paid for. She did this in spite of acknowledging that she was selling a portion of herself and also acknowledging that she would have to carefully phrase her answers so as not to offend the liberal (often gay) judges.
Unless you are for this higher-class form of prostitution, boycott pageants!
@Alcie- Prostitution huh? So you know for a fact that all Paegent contestants exchange sexual favors for money? Because that’s the definition of prostitution according to good ol’ webster and myself. Or are you overly exaggerating like most catholics do? Most catholics also Judge without one ounce of truth behind the judgment, like you did when you said i’ve bought into this sex-saturated society. I havent bought into it, just in case you were wondering, i just havent bought into the Church’s ultra-prude, hush-hush view of sexuality either. I suppose i’m a hard sell when it comes to this subject. For instance, I’m saving myself for marriage, but I do look foward to sex in marriage (shocker huh?). I’m against Contraception totally but also against Natural Family Planning. I want children but I wont become the next ‘Jon and Kate plus 8’. Care to know anything else about me? I love Christ more than you can possibly fathom, as well as his holy catholic church.
Why would any “Christian” watch or participate in this type of ‘Entertainment’ at all ?
“......if thine Eye offend thee, pluck it out”.(or at least change channel)
Johnny Catholic- I suggest you read The Good News about Sex and Marriage by Christopher West, I know that as a woman discerning the religious life it showed me a great deal about what the Catholic Church actually believes about sex and marriage, and what you seem to misconstrue as prudish is in actuality an amazing and beautiful thing… it really helped me a lot. God bless!
why do they not lat weman who are married or have kids compet in there pagents.
Who watches these pagents anyway? Garbage in, garbage out.
The real and ideal woman is Our Blessed Mother. She can teach me all her ways and I am so very happy to learn from her pure and humble heart.
Don’t watch it. There. Now it shouldn’t bother you. See how easy it is?
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