On the Significance of Beauty Pageants

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Because sex sells.

So ya, Miss Megan Young won the title of Miss World because of her great advantage since she'd been an actress and a host in the Philippines for quite some time now, last September 30, 2012 in Bali Indonesia despite the efforts of some Muslim groups to put a halt to this whole thing and disrupt the competition. They've been protesting for weeks but Indonesian authorities said no demonstration or rallies occurred at the time of the pageant. So, nice try Muslims. But I do commend the people from the conservative Muslim groups for not resulting to violence as means to get meager attention like they always do. But anyway, that was a digression. I'm actually here to give my two cents about beauty pageants and how the Filipino culture perceives these types of Most-Physically-Preferred-And-Therefore-Most-Likely-to-Pass-on-their-Genes-According-to-Evolution contests. 

You see, I think these contests are over rated as far as the Filipinos are taking it. I mean, one of the biggest bullshit I've ever heard in Philippine tv next to those funny political clowns, is people from the entertainment industry telling that the question and answer portion is the best thing to gauge the contestant's intelligence. And I can't believe people are actually buying into this nonesense. I hear girls quote beauty queen replies as if these overly glorified white elephants are accomplished authors and philosophers. Can anyone tell me just how a highly rehearsable politically-correct question that only needs about 2-3 sentences to answer - safe answers most of them - be something that measures the intelligence of these women? Is the standard for measurement of their IQ's lower than the average person just because, I don't know, they're good looking? If so, then this just might be the biggest and the worst double fucking standard there is!

And some women walk on the stage a certain way that's slightly different than the other contestants, and what to people do? They fucking name them. Nothing to me sounds more like a cheap sensationalism ever since they started naming Pokemons. And please don't tell me the bikini portion does not in any way objectify the female gender, okay? Alright, I'm tired of typing now so I'm just going to close this article real quick. I see nothing wrong with appreciating winners from major beauty contests every now and then or doing it in your baranggay every fiesta or if your officials decide to think outside the box for a bit and put a summer twist in your Santacruzan. What I can't understand is people putting these women on a pedestal just because they're good looking and did a bit of charity work and all. If anything, we should be glorifying scientists,doctors, innovators, politicians who are actually noble, thinkers, really good professors and men and women of letters, people who are often overlooked by society, people this country really needs more of if it is to develop as one of the leading nations in Asia.