Beauty Pageants - Good or Bad?

[Calm]

11 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

I prefer playing a game of chess to watching a beauty pageant.

I prefer watching a chess game.

[Rain]

 

On 9/12/2018 at 10:26 PM, Thinking said:

Viewership had been declining before the swimsuit competition was dropped (about 35% from 2013 to 2017).

https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/missamerica/miss-america-broadcast-ratings-drop-again-creates-trending-moments/article_df1cfc64-53ba-5302-8174-9dd2d9b72889.html

2013: 8.6 million viewers

2014: 7.1 million viewers

2015: 7.9 million viewers

2016: 6.25 million viewers

2017: 5.6 million viewers

Perhaps a time slot different from Sunday Night Football would generate better ratings.

I'm wondering if there are a lot of factors. I was thinking about Netflix and other streaming companies contributing to it going down.  More and more I know of people giving up regular TV for it.

Edited September 15, 2018 by Rain

[Scott Lloyd]

14 hours ago, Mansquatch said:

Where will we get awesome stuff like this?:

 

From politicians like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the newly minted “future of the Democratic Party.”

[Bernard Gui]

On 9/11/2018 at 6:13 PM, Scott Lloyd said:

I never knew Sharlene, but I did know two of her sisters. Danna was in one of my wards at BYU and Elaine worked with me for a while at the Church News until she quit to go to law school. I consider Elaine a good friend. 

Susan is one of Sister Gui’s longtime best friends. They were roommates in my BYU ward. I asked Susan over the phone to go to a missionary reunion with me (before SG and I started dating), but she declined with a curt “No!” That‘s when I saw the light and have been superbly happy ever since. Several months later we were all talking at dinner and I asked Susan why she turned me down. She was surprised to hear this because she had misheard my name and thought I was someone else she didn’t particularly like.

Edited September 15, 2018 by Bernard Gui

[why me]

For many feminists, women should have the freedom to choose their own career, hobbies, and interests. If women wish to participate in such endeavors, why should they be prevented? When the swimsuit was in the competition, women signed up to compete. That was their choice. No one was forced to compete. Now, the competition is sterile and political. Thus, the viewership has declined and feminists have shown themselves to be hypocritical: it is fine for Stormy Daniels to be a pornstar but not fine for a swimsuit competition in the Miss America pagent.  America has now spoken by not watching the pagent as they use to do.

Edited September 16, 2018 by why me

[The Nehor]

Beauty pageant questions are......special.

 

Edited September 16, 2018 by The Nehor

[The Nehor]

22 hours ago, Scott Lloyd said:

From politicians like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the newly minted “future of the Democratic Party.”

The Republicans chose a Presidential candidate with a grade school level vocabulary who does not seem to grasp much of anything. Glass houses and all that.

[Scott Lloyd]

59 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

The Republicans chose a Presidential candidate with a grade school level vocabulary who does not seem to grasp much of anything. Glass houses and all that.

If Ocasio-Cortez, ditz personified, is indeed the “future of the Democratic Party” (a thing I highly doubt) then Trump already has 2020 secured. 

[Stargazer]

4 hours ago, The Nehor said:

The Republicans chose a Presidential candidate with a grade school level vocabulary who does not seem to grasp much of anything. Glass houses and all that.

 

3 hours ago, Scott Lloyd said:

If Ocasio-Cortez, ditz personified, is indeed the “future of the Democratic Party” (a thing I highly doubt) then Trump already has 2020 secured. 

Hey guys, should we be getting this political about beauty pageants? 

Get a room! 😁

[Hestia]

No politics.  The Nehor and Scott Lloyd have been banned from the thread.

[phaedrus ut]

On 9/15/2018 at 9:56 PM, why me said:

For many feminists, women should have the freedom to choose their own career, hobbies, and interests. If women wish to participate in such endeavors, why should they be prevented? When the swimsuit was in the competition, women signed up to compete. That was their choice. No one was forced to compete. Now, the competition is sterile and political. Thus, the viewership has declined and feminists have shown themselves to be hypocritical: it is fine for Stormy Daniels to be a pornstar but not fine for a swimsuit competition in the Miss America pagent.  America has now spoken by not watching the pagent as they use to do.

It's interesting to think about relics of patriarchy and objectifying women turn into something women to by choice and can find empowering.  We've seen Sport Illustrated move from just the swimsuit issue to the Body Issue that shows the variety of body shapes in athletes of all types.  It'll be interesting to see what these old institutions change into. 

 

Phaedrus