Your comments are justified and no ill-intent meant. Your journal is terrific and you are very talented.
From my perspective, the problem with beauty pageants is that they only promote one "brand" of the notion of beauty. Not just in the US, but in several other countries as well. If there were lots of women there with lots of different looks and from lots of different cultural backgrounds, matters would be slightly different. The fact is that winners are all of a "type" physically, and for a lot of them, that aesthetic is acheived by pretty unhealthy means. More than one or two ex-pageanter has gone on develop eating disorders, and this isn't really a great look to be exposing younger kids to. When interviewed about current affairs (something all pageanters are supposed to be informed about), the answers given are often ill-informed. Last year some were just offensive.
Very much still a Weir fan, just wishing this particular decision hadn't been one he made.
And very much still a fan of your excellent journal. Keep up the good work!
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Date: Sunday, 16 May 2010 07:34 (UTC)From my perspective, the problem with beauty pageants is that they only promote one "brand" of the notion of beauty. Not just in the US, but in several other countries as well. If there were lots of women there with lots of different looks and from lots of different cultural backgrounds, matters would be slightly different. The fact is that winners are all of a "type" physically, and for a lot of them, that aesthetic is acheived by pretty unhealthy means. More than one or two ex-pageanter has gone on develop eating disorders, and this isn't really a great look to be exposing younger kids to. When interviewed about current affairs (something all pageanters are supposed to be informed about), the answers given are often ill-informed. Last year some were just offensive.
Very much still a Weir fan, just wishing this particular decision hadn't been one he made.
And very much still a fan of your excellent journal. Keep up the good work!