Dominus wrote:Who watches that anyway? Are you really turned on by often barely legal women in swimsuits? Is that the reason you watch it? phew...
I've never watched a beauty contest at all, and I don't tend to fancy women like the beauty queens or fashion models anyway. And if beauty contests were stopped because people didn't want to watch them or appear in them then fine, but what I object to is that this is yet another instance of political correctness over-riding common sense and logic. How can a 'beauty' contest be judged on non-beauty based attributes? It's no longer a beauty contest then. You might as well tell the competitors in the Tour De France cycling race that they can use their cars if they like.
It's the same sort of brain-dead PC rubbish that claimed it was wrong to use the word 'blackboard' in British classrooms in case anyone found it racist and was offended by it, but you were still allowed to say 'whiteboard', of course - in England political correctness only applies to minorities (or women, who are actually the majority, but then you don't expect common sense or reason from the PC fanatics).
badmojo wrote:No complaints here, I'd prefer my daughters grew up in a world where this leery, outdated BS is questioned.
Er, first of all, the women who enter these contests actually WANT to do so, no one's holding a gun to their heads. Most beautiful women are vain to an extent, and most young women in general go to quite a lot of effort and time to look as good as they can, because they like to be admired by men. Changing a 'beauty' contest won't change womens' desire to be noticed, nor will it stop men looking at, and being attracted to, women.
And why is it now considered, by the politically correct, to be 'leery' for a man to look at a woman, but those same politically correct people wouldn't dream of calling a women looking a man 'leery' (even if it's a bunch of drunk women on a hen-night screaming happily at a naked male stripper), or, OH NO! a gay man looking in appreciation at another man?
Basically, political correctness now means:
Male = bad, potential rapist, pervert, misogynist (unless he's black, gay, or a muslim, in which case he's above criticism)
Female = good, noble, pure, incapable of doing wrong.