...Onion news!
Well, it wasn't quite an onion for me... I used a newscast from the CBC news... The one called "Farewell, Miss Canada" captured my attention. Et, en plus, it was first broadcast in my birth year!
Those Miss competitions look really fancy, glamorous...and so cheap. I mean, what do you think is the reason why the feminist Judy Rebick had more interview pieces included than Miss Canada 1981 and Miss Canada 1992? Both Misses only got half a sentence granted in this podcast! And then it was only something like "Quebec, Vancouver, British Columbia, Winnipeg... it brings the whole of Canada together!" and "I think I have to inform people what it's all about".
(More or less) surprisingly, they seem to be the typical "Miss"-stereotype! Looking good, but not much behind that beautiful face. Hm. Interesting.
I am happy that they finally realized (in 1992, MY birth year!) that those Miss competitions are outdated and deliver the wrong image of women. However... why then, if they all got over this presenting-women-like-meat-attitude, did the USA come up with America's Next Top Model in 2003? What else does it provoke than complexes in thousands of girls, and ambitions to become America's Next Top Model (which is, all in all, pretty much the same as a Miss competition)? This show already spread throughout the whole world, reviving the craving for superstitious beauty.
Does that mean society has made another step back in the fight for the treatment of women? Is being rated by one's exterior the new trend again?
Well, it wasn't quite an onion for me... I used a newscast from the CBC news... The one called "Farewell, Miss Canada" captured my attention. Et, en plus, it was first broadcast in my birth year!
Those Miss competitions look really fancy, glamorous...and so cheap. I mean, what do you think is the reason why the feminist Judy Rebick had more interview pieces included than Miss Canada 1981 and Miss Canada 1992? Both Misses only got half a sentence granted in this podcast! And then it was only something like "Quebec, Vancouver, British Columbia, Winnipeg... it brings the whole of Canada together!" and "I think I have to inform people what it's all about".
(More or less) surprisingly, they seem to be the typical "Miss"-stereotype! Looking good, but not much behind that beautiful face. Hm. Interesting.
I am happy that they finally realized (in 1992, MY birth year!) that those Miss competitions are outdated and deliver the wrong image of women. However... why then, if they all got over this presenting-women-like-meat-attitude, did the USA come up with America's Next Top Model in 2003? What else does it provoke than complexes in thousands of girls, and ambitions to become America's Next Top Model (which is, all in all, pretty much the same as a Miss competition)? This show already spread throughout the whole world, reviving the craving for superstitious beauty.
Does that mean society has made another step back in the fight for the treatment of women? Is being rated by one's exterior the new trend again?
"Does that mean society has made another step back in the fight for the treatment of women?"
Truly - I was tempted but did not want to comment. Being afraid that my comment would be longer than your blog entry.... but you encouraged me to write!
Now - think about society and women. About percentages: How many women and how many men live on earth? What - who - is society?
Women are responsible for what they get! Yes - it's my opinion!
As long as mothers don't care to encourage their daughters to be strong, and as long as they spoil their sons, as long as girls don't learn to say 'No!' - as long as they don't even bother to think... and so on... you'll have stupid contests like that and thousands of volunteers. It's sad but real. Every single woman on earth could do something against it from the first moment when her new baby is born. We do not need to be political, but only strive to help our children to become well educated, open-minded and responsible, to make them strong. It sounds so easy... but look at reality and you'll find out soon that it is not easy at all! One woman can't change the world, but many of us can do a little bit to make it better!
Thoughts of your Mom...
media gains more and more in influence, and this becomes a vicious circle. Education nowadays comes from TVs... :(