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Miss USA killed Chivalry

June 4, 2010 by  
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By Jane Smith

Everybody has heard of the Miss USA pageant show, many of us might also be great fans. But the truth is pageant or not, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Somebody please explain to me how fifty young women getting judged by their looks all the while spitting out superficial and unoriginal answers to superficial and unoriginal questions thus finding a lucky winner to put a tiara on top and call her “Miss USA”.

Let me start off by saying that a great percentage of the contestants are coincidently good looking. Now, it doesn\’t take a genius to figure out what the qualifications are to be a pageant contestant: good looks. Now moving on through the actual contest which starts by seeing who can look best in a swimsuit and who looks best in a gown. And to make it all look somewhat intellectual, let\’s ask the final contestants a few questions they already know the answers too! REALLY? Is our media really that desperate to catch an audience? Has our country run out of creative ideas thanks to The Simpsons, and American Idol? And the nation wonders why teens are suicidal and depressed.

When beauty is expressed by fake tans and anorexic diets, then we shouldn\’t be surprised to see depression in the eyes of a girl who feels unsatisfied with herself because she is being compared to supermodels. The main message people get from broadcasts like Miss USA, is that women on TV are nothing but sex symbols that definitely don\’t get judged by intellect. But I\’m sure the producers of this contest didn\’t know any better, and if they did who cares. Success censors whatever poison filled message might be going to audiences as well as viewers around the nation.

Word on the street is Chivalry is dead. But if you do your research you\’ll find that Chivalry immediately died when shows like Miss USA first came out. It makes sense for a guy to think “Hey that girl looks just like Rima Fakih (Miss USA 2010 Pageant winner) I should open the door for her…” Thanks a lot Rima Fakih. Now, nobody opens the door for me anymore.

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  • Anonymous

    MSIE 8.0 Windows 7

    hmm. someone’s angry…

  • Freshie

    MSIE 8.0 Windows Vista

    Great points, though I feel it’s old hat that Miss Usa, and all Miss___ contests are an absoloute joke, and a waste of most people’s time. Save them as fodder for Perez Hilton’s blog’s or whatever future scandals they harbor.
    Did you hear about Rima Fakih?
    Rima who?
    You know, Miss Usa. You’ll never guess what she did….
    eh. I say let superficial people have their superficial shows and leave the rest of us alone.