"The View" on Perez Hilton on Miss America on Gay Marriage. Nobody on effects of pageants on women?

[omega minimo]

:wow: :crazy:


Is it possible that indoctrinating people into rigid gender expectations and behaviors could reinforce their attitudes about gender expectations and behaviors?

:think:

[Captain Hilts]

1. The View has set women back decades. nt

[omega minimo]

2. and the pageants return like clockwork

[elshiva]

3. I don't like the whole beauty pageant idea.

However, I do take offense at the posts that make fun of the contestants' looks. (I'm not talking about the OP) It's find to protest the pageant in itself, but I hate comments like "all you need to do is starve yourself and stuff silicone" and "they look like transvestites." The posters reforce sexist ideas with such comments. It puts women in a Catch-22 situation if your not a beauty contestant, you're ugly, if you are a contestant you're a phony. :(

[backtoblue]

4. Nicely put

Women are portrayed as nothing more than eye candy and pageants are proof of that idealism.

The women on stage have probably been to pageants their entire lives and have been conditioned to smile, wave, and walk a certain way. They are portrayed as "barbiedolls" and making fun of them fuels fire to sexist assholes who see women as nothing more than visual/physical stimulization. nt