Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "America's Top Environmental Beauty Pageant: Miss Earth USA" video.

  1. Lipstick on a pig. Not the women, Beauty Pageant contests themselves. The reason why the stigma of old fashioned won't go away, whether people realize it or not, is because the entire concept of beauty pageants was created and fomented by men, with extremely puritanical and sexist views, for men to gawk at, and do a whole ton worse things. I will remind that in the past this institution had a category for teens. And that the entire concept of such a contest has spread out way beyond their roots, created a whole ton of different offshoots that are still around, and continue to have similar problematic ramifications. It was designed to force a single standard of beauty, which has a long entrenched history of being racist, and different organizations had different problems in them. It's likely the strongest symbol of old fashioned Mad Men era objectification of women still alive. No matter how much you polish that turd, it won't shine. And then, fundamentally, it has the problem of trying to quantify, classify, judge what is called "beauty". I think that's the most self evident problem in all of this. Even if you ignore all the problematic history and consider that changes made are enough to separate the contest from it, there is a central issue incompatible with modernity that makes these sorts of competitions completely dead - a contest does not get to chose what beauty is for no one anymore. And most people these days don't give a sh*t about judges opinions. So the whole thing ends up not mattering, even more when these competitions are infamously brutal to competitors. I guess the only reason these things are still alive are on the fascination of reality shows that somehow got into the mix of Beauty Pageants these days. The competition itself matters little, what people wanna see are the scandals and the brutality of it. What competitors have to go through to qualify, the grotesque nature of the spectacle behind the scenes. In the end, the sharp decline of Beauty Pageants have such a long tail these days that people have to wonder how it's still a thing. And this attempt to disguise it with current themes is also very old at this point... oh it's not about objectification, we are judging on intelligence too! World Peace! We're including diversity! We're doing it for the planet! Don't you get it? The problem is in the title itself. Some things cannot be fixed no matter how much you try. Funny enough I guess, the Beauty Pageant concept is one of those things that cannot be recycled, upcycled or whatever... it belongs to history. In order for a contest like that to become something worth the attention nowadays, it needs to change in such a fundamental level that it might as well die, and the time and money invested in something else completely separate and different. Not trying to offend anyone, sorry if there are still fans out there, but this is my personal view. Just to be clear, I have nothing against contestants, and I know the competition has produced some positive output in the lives of some of them... but this is not what my criticism is about. It's about the system itself.
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