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Topic: "ordinary" Russian teen wins anti-barbie bid as Miss Universe contender
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N.Beltov
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posted 15 April 2004 02:43 PM
quote: Originally posted by Michelle:Hmm. One could infer from your last sentence that whether or not a woman's opinion should be respected should depend on whether she's a "busty Barbie" or a plain Jane.
Really? Alyona seems to be a kind of subversive to the beauty contest. I like that. What she's done draws attention to social problems in Russia. And her message is more powerful, to me, because her whole approach mocks and undermines the contest. It draws attention to things that are more important and trivializes what should be trivialized. It wasn't my intention to belittle Miss USA but rather to insist that we should expect her to have "something worthwhile to contribute" (to borrow Tommy Shanks expression) and not presume that she is "challenged." I'm not sure that we disagree at all... I freely fess up to alliterative excess however.
From: Vancouver Island | Registered: May 2003
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Tommy Shanks
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posted 15 April 2004 05:00 PM
Actually I was referring to this: quote: Quite a contrast to the recently crowned Miss America...who went public with her intention to spout the virtues of the current U.S. role in Iraq. Seems that she views it as her duty to do so.
It seems that traditional "Beauty Queens", unlike Alyona, tend to be somewhat, howshall we say, limited intellectually. But what does one expect from Ms. Texas? If you're looking for pronouncements and reasoning the Ms. Universe Pagent ain't where you should be looking. If your idea of cutting commentary is "I wish for world peace and I love kitty-cats" than a typical participant in the Ms. World shin-dig should be right up your alley. As too this: quote: One could infer from your last sentence that whether or not a woman's opinion should be respected should depend on whether she's a "busty Barbie" or a plain Jane.
Quite the opposite. If someone has something of worth to contribute, then I should listen. [ 15 April 2004: Message edited by: Tommy Shanks ]
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