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[bloodyrosemccoy]

The one thing I took away from that Miss Utah business was that it's ludicrous to expect ANYONE to be able to provide a satisfactory answer to a multifaceted, yet bizarrely vague, question addressing a large social issue in the 12-second time frame allotted. I would have stood there aghast and finally said something like "How the hell am I supposed to answer THAT? World peace. Fuck you all" and stomped offstage.

One of the several reasons I am not Miss Utah, I guess.

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[the-jackalope.livejournal.com]

That is a good point. I've seen the video going around various forums and I just feel so bad for her. It's an extremely complicated question, and it feels tailor made to humiliate the person trying to answer it.

[spiffikins]

I TOTALLY agree!

I don't really have strong feelings about these types of contests - but I have seen that clip and while she didn't exactly come off as *prepared* - I'm not sure what anyone could have come up with as a good answer in a quick snippet

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Mostly the pageants just mystify me--they seem so weirdly arbitrary about what they're looking for. And I have to admit, when they're fully made up, beauty queens look terrifyingly uncanny valley to me.

The question was ridiculous, though. I realize they're making a token effort to show that the pageant is about Serious Feminist Issues, not just about how white your teeth are and what you look like in a bathing suit. It's backfiring.

Although I will point out that the OTHER Miss Utah, from the Miss America competition LOOK I DON'T EVEN KNOW, has been spending her term encouraging women and girls to get involved in Science and will be continuing medical school once her term is up. Which is nice, I guess. (I only know all this because she was the opening speaker for Phil Plait when he gave his talk here. It was a bit of cognitive dissonance for everybody.)