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Lo and behold, the Miss America pageant was protested by feminists all the way back in 1968-69 (click on the link for some photos). I guess I did not realize that this would have happened in the 1960s, but it does show how feminist movers were operating back in those days. I know there are complaints about Miss America and Miss USA today, but I don't know if there are people who picket with signs at the events.One sign shown in one of the photos, though, is rather curious:http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/MissAm04.htmlSo “a woman's home is a prison”, eh?
…. I guess I did not realize that this would have happened in the 1960s, but it does show how feminist movers were operating back in those days. I know there are complaints about Miss America and Miss USA today….
The 60's (after the JFK assassination) went out big for protests; the Civil Rights Movement was making progress and people were getting more outspoken about many causes. It was put up as a time to be enlightend and aware of many things. Anti-war, feminism, free love, drugs, and so on.
I guess I just didn't realize that there would have been such vocal or visible protests over such a pageant back then, but not (apparently) in the years since. Funny, one would think that the more provocative nature of these pageants nowadays would spur feminists into protesting more, compared to what they were probably like back in the 60s.
Good things are worth the wait.For the second straight year, the Miss USA Pageant is facing charges of liberal bias. Miss Michigan Rima Fakih, a Muslim who was born in Lebanon, was crowned Miss USA 2010 on Sunday night. The harshest attack on Fakih so far has come from conservative blogger and talk show host Debbie Schlussel. She claimed that Miss USA has “many relatives” who are terrorists and that a Hezbollah supporter helped bankroll her pageant run. http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/controversy-swirls-around-miss-usa-winner-rima-fakih/19480750
Good things are worth the wait.For the second straight year, the Miss USA Pageant is facing charges of liberal bias.
I hadn't heard that. I did hear the claim that there might have been a sense of “affirmative action” at work, and that some Muslims might be quite upset about her in the pageant. I haven't heard complaints by feminists, however. I wonder if they gave up on this issue in the decades since the late 60s.
You know, I thought about this and quite honestly, who gives a rip who wins this? It's a beauty contest… it's not going to affect world politics, our economic structure, or national security…Sure, my “American Racist” self would like to have seen a nice farm girl with the last name of “Jones” or “Smith” from Iowa win, but again, this really has zero effect on our country… and if it does, we had better reevaluate our priorities….My two cents…
I think some people would say that the shame is that political correctness and liberalism are seeping too far into society. Some of the questions asked in the interviews, last year and this year, suggest as much.But I don't know how much anyone could prove that a type of unwritten affirmative action was involved in the Miss USA contest this year, and for all we know she was the better candidate. I think that's the whole problem with affirmative action in general – you can't really tell if someone gets a job or a position out of merit or because of skin color/ethnicity/etc.
You know, I thought about this and quite honestly, who gives a rip who wins this? It's a beauty contest… it's not going to affect world politics, our economic structure, or national security…… again, this really has zero effect on our country… and if it does, we had better reevaluate our priorities….My two cents…
More bread and circuses.
