Dogs are paraded in front of judges, evaluated on their temperament (at Miss America, think "Presence and Poise in Evening Wear"), and required to meet precise appearance criteria. If these honors remind one of a dog show, the resemblance is more than superficial. Then there is the National Dream Girls USA Pageant, where winners’ titles include Senior Grand Champion, Junior Grand Champion and Tiny Grand Champion. There are ethnic pride pageants, Internet pageants, modeling pageants, fitness pageants, petite pageants, children’s pageants, pre-teen pageants, teen pageants, senior pageants, swimsuit pageants and pageants for the disabled. In addition, there are numberless regional, state and local pageants awarding such titles as New England Star/Sweetheart, Miss Rice Belt USA, Apple Festival Junior Apple Princess, Underwater Queen, Miss Effingham County Fair, Miss Fire Ant and Miss Rural Electrification.
On a more cosmological scale, there’s Miss Sun Queen, Miss Milky Way and Miss Universe. Professional Woman International, Queen of the World, Miss Globe, Mrs. American United States, Miss International, Ms. The 81-year-old pageant that first assumed our country’s name has spawned numerous imitations that have bestowed on thin women grandiose titles like Ms. The selection of Miss America is the final outcome of 1,200 state and local pageants in the Miss America network, and these constitute only a small part of the vast subculture of beauty competition in the United States. And last May the Miss Universe Pageant attracted a television audience of 11 million, a 40 percent increase over the previous year’s telecast. The 16 million people who watched Miss America’s crowning in September, though fewer than a year before, still helped ABC to its strongest Saturday evening in eight months. It was in the news recently when Muslim rioting in Nigeria, provoked in part by perceptions that the event is sexually immoral, forced its organizers to move its venue from that country to London.īut despite the intense disapproval they evoke from many quarters, beauty pageants are still very much with us, even here in the United States, where popular interest has been waning in recent decades. An international television audience of more than a billion people, a large portion of which lives in Third World countries, will view the contest. MINNEAPOLIS (WOMENSENEWS)–At this moment, young women all over the world are striving to lose enough weight to win a beauty pageant.Ī few of these women have just now reached their peak level of competitive thinness in preparation for the season’s biggest beauty event, the Miss World Pageant on Saturday.
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