MISS USA
"This year, the Miss Universe pageant is using photos of contestants, including Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih, in nothing but body paint to promote the August 23 event, and it has one former pageant organizer crying foul.
Angie Meyer, described as a "former pageant-organization worker," expressed her dismay with the photos to Fox News: "It's alarming that this has been turned into a Playboy-esque masquerade, she said. "By implementing topless photos as part of the pageant process, they're putting applicants in an extremely compromising position."
I quote above from Yahoo News. And i agree with Angie Meyer. This is just a cheap publicity stunt to attract more viewers.
What's the purpose of beauty pageants anyway?
1. To celebrate beauty?
More like celebrating fake beauty especially with all those make up. Beauty is not suppose to be measured with the amount of make up you have on your face nor how good your make up skills are.
And i don't know if plastic surgery is permitted. If it's permitted, then this is not a contest of natural beauty and there's no appreciation of such beauty.
2. To celebrate the intelligence of women?
I suggest so because you have to be kindda smart, like being aware of current news and be able to carry yourself well, professionally and intellectually. If not, the contestants wouldn't be asked questions on current affairs in the competition.
And being able to answer well is a requirement.
Besides, the work of the beauty pageant after declared a winner is that she needs to go around the world helping the poor and helpless and at the same time looking pretty.
Then there's a defence to this whole topless pictures.People claim nudity is a form of art, that human bodies are beautiful. Yes, i do think human bodies are beautiful and some nudity can be considered art such as drawings, photographs or sculptures but the topless body paint pictures of the beauty contestants don't really scream art... It's like they are using it as an excuse to justify topless pictures. Again, lame cheap publicity to get the ratings of the show up.
"The Miss Universe organization, which is co-run by the Trump Organization and NBC, says they arranged the Las Vegas photo shoot to celebrate the diversity of this year's contestants. In a statement to Yahoo!, Lark-Marie Anton, vice president of marketing and public relations for pageant, defended the promotion: "The contestants who compete at Miss Universe are diverse, as they represent more than 82 countries around the globe. Many of their cultures embrace nudity," she said."
Many of their cultures embrace nudity? Seriously? Why don't you allow nudist to walk around in the street? In the nudist's defence he can claim it's a form of art and it's acceptable to their culture or whatever.
People are not stupid. Taking semi nude pictures for contest or tv shows is a scheme to attract more viewers. They are so many other kind of photography art but why nude body painting? And this is a beauty pageant contest, artistic photography is not a requirement.
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