iowajournal Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I don't know what to think really. I'm a bit confused, entertained, and excited all in one. In general I am skeptical about such events, but how can I explain why I've been watching the Miss America Reality Check on TLC all day long? I guess curiousity is the best word to describe my interest at present. Link to post Share on other sites
Tony T Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 What is the Miss America Reality Check about? It doesn't sound like anything I would want to watch all day! Link to post Share on other sites
Author iowajournal Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 Its a program on TLC that has been plugging the Miss America contest that is now on for the last 4 hours or so. But now they have already narrowed down the count to 15 people and the girls haven't had to do anything yet...they just started narrowing them down. I don't get it??? My interest in this is starting to slip ... big time. What in the hell did I just spend 3 hours watching all this preparation the girls had to go thru on the Reality Check program when they already nipped the count down to 15? Bunk Bunk Bunk Bunk Bunk..... Link to post Share on other sites
norajane Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 What is the Miss America Reality Check about? It doesn't sound like anything I would want to watch all day! I've been catching some of it today. They're trying to update the pageant, so they have had the women go through 4 weeks of reality show where they give them modern hairstyles, and teach them to dress and walk like the young women they are rather than 40 year olds from another era. Link to post Share on other sites
swansong519 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 What is the Miss America Reality Check about? It doesn't sound like anything I would want to watch all day! It's about milking the pageant for all it's worth. "How can we squeeze as much airtime and money out of a contest that year after year draws less and less interest....and becomes less and less relevant." Link to post Share on other sites
Tony T Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 The Miss America Pageant, and beauty contests in general, are DEAD...they are absurd...ludicrous. No woman who cares about herself would participate in such banality. For many years, the Miss America Pageant was held in September and broadcast to a very large audience on the major television networks (which paid a lot of money for the honor). In the past few years, the Miss America organization hasn't even been able to GIVE the show away...hasn't been able to find a major network or cable channel willing to broadcast it. I guess The Learning Channel is as good as anything now. I wonder how much TLC is being paid to broadcast the trash. To see women who hardly represent beautiful, talented, intelligent women of our nation parade themselves in front of an audience in all kinds of attire down to a bikini is sickening and demeaning to the ladies who participate. It wasn't long ago that the rules of the pageant strictly forbade the wearing of bikinis...but I guess compromising your standards is OK if money gets scarce. It is just so insulting for women to have to go through that crap for a measly scholarship. Yes, the talent competition is fine as long as its judged fairly but the overall idea of pretty girls parading before judges like cattle to be judged on their legs, tits and how they answer questions just makes me puke. I pray that this pageant and all the others will go away. It simply doesn't do anything great for the female gender and locks them in the dark ages. I can't believe the TLC Network is working it over so much...milking it for all it may be worth. Obviously they're stretching it out so news of it will appear on messages boards and their audience of ten will build to 20 before the winner is crowned. Link to post Share on other sites
norajane Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 It's a beauty contest. No one forced the women to be in it. They chose to, knowing what it's about. It's held at Planet Hollywood in Vegas this year. Seems fitting for a beauty contest, women in bikinis and gowns, just like all the other showgirls and casino waitresses. Link to post Share on other sites
swansong519 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I pray that this pageant and all the others will go away. As NoraJane noted...these women made an adult, conscious choice to become involved in these contests. I suspect as more and more people turn away from them, you will see fewer and fewer of them. The ones that truly sicken me are the child pageants...a bunch of kids as young as 2 years "old?", painted up like grown women. THAT I find disturbing and disconcerting. Link to post Share on other sites
Trialbyfire Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I have no idea why anyone would want to participate in this type of pageant. It's not the celebration of womanhood, it's the celebration of the best slab of meat. Link to post Share on other sites
Tony T Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 As NoraJane noted...these women made an adult, conscious choice to become involved in these contests. I suspect as more and more people turn away from them, you will see fewer and fewer of them. The ones that truly sicken me are the child pageants...a bunch of kids as young as 2 years "old?", painted up like grown women. THAT I find disturbing and disconcerting. Child pageants are off the topic here but I will say that caking adult make-up on a young child, as they did on Jon Benet Ramsey, is a sin of the worst kind and child abuse in my book. You may note, for the record, that her mother Pasty was in the Miss America Pageant in 1977. I get so nauseated everytime I see the footage of Jon Benet strutting her stuff in those pageants for tots. I simply have no use for anything where women, by their own choice or not, parade in front of judges so it can be decided who is the best of them all. Everything about beauty pageants is disturbing but I respect everybody's right to participate in whatever they wish as long as it doesn't hurt people. If I were going to attend any one of them, it would probably be the Miss Nude USA Pageant...at least they have nothing to hide! Link to post Share on other sites
swansong519 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 If I were going to attend any one of them, it would probably be the Miss Nude USA Pageant...at least they have nothing to hide! And...they make no pretense about what they are. It's a "meat show" and they make no bones about it... not sure if there was a pun in there or not...but if there was, it was unintentional...lol But to keep on topic...that's what bothers me about pageants like Miss America...the pretense that it is anything other than a "beauty" pageant. Link to post Share on other sites
Woggle Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I would never be caught dead watching a show like that but they show it because people will watch it. I have no desire to ever come into contact with these people but if there was no audience they would not broadcast it. Link to post Share on other sites
jerbear Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Miss America has been marketed as one of the largest scholarships. Granted in the when it was first started it was a beauty contest with a scholarship attached as a prize. I remember when Miss Teen America, Miss Universe, and every "Miss" and "Mrs." were on tv. Now just Miss America and occasionally something else. If it became Miss Nude America, it would infringe on another copyright or trademark and it will have to be on cable after 10pm. I think it has something to do with writer's block, so the show was previously recorded in Vegas and played back as a reality show. Link to post Share on other sites
Tony T Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Nobody here has even remotely implied that the Miss America Pageant has been changed to a nude pageant. In any case, the show tonight was not taped...it was real. The winner was a 19 year old lady from Michigan. It was the 87th annual Miss America Pageant. That's older than most people live...let's kill it. Go here for the latest: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22861217/ Link to post Share on other sites
Author iowajournal Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 (edited) I understand that physical beauty is something that does exist and people who possess it are intriguing to look at. I cannot say it is wrong to celebrate beauty. But perhaps sheer beuty should be the criteria alone for how the contestants are judged. Let us seek out the finest specimans that life gives us across America and let the public vote on it. Maybe this forthrightness would be better than putting the girls thru all those side situations that may or may not really cast any relevance on the final outcome. The show should not deny the superficial nature of the situation and it may be more palatable amongst skeptics. But then that would raise a whole other set of questions and problems...But those would probably need to be addressed to geneticists, or God for explanations. Edited January 27, 2008 by iowajournal revision of point Link to post Share on other sites
swansong519 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I understand that physical beauty is something that does exist and people who possess it are intriguing to look at. I cannot say it is wrong to celebrate beauty. But perhaps sheer beuty should be the criteria alone for how the contestants are judged. Let us seek out the finest specimans that life gives us across America and let the public vote on it. Maybe this forthrightness would be better than putting the girls thru all those side situations that may or may not really cast any relevance on the final outcome. The show should not deny the superficial nature of the situation and it may be more palatable amongst skeptics. But then that would raise a whole other set of questions and problems...But those would probably need to be addressed to geneticists, or God for explanations. And lets run with that idea...pure beauty...no make up...no high heels, fake eyelashes, boob jobs...etc... Now you have a contest... Link to post Share on other sites
Author iowajournal Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 (edited) I have a pretty good eye for people who have had plastic surgery, and most of the young women in that contest looked fairly natural to me. Of course, plastic surgeons are getting more refined in their skill, and it is becoming harder to detect work done, since au' natural is the big buzzword of the day. However-tragically, those who've had to endure the industry's "learning curve" (like fallen soldiers in war-the first wave of mistakes from the fresh commanding officer) many people's noses, chins and breasts lay in ruin. Miss Indiana was quite a knockout, but I think it's those blonde women with the blue, slightly cross-eyed Siamese cat eyes that are the most beautiful and intriguing to me. I would think artists, sculptors, anatomists, geneticists etc. would make better panel judges, if pure beauty were to be the sole judging criteria. But we live in a Christian nation-for the most part, and goals for pure strains of genetics, and beauty were ruminated upon, and decided against in the 1940's by this nation...were they not? Edited January 27, 2008 by iowajournal grammatical Link to post Share on other sites
jerbear Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 But we live in a Christian nation-for the most part, and goals for pure strains of genetics, and beauty were ruminated upon, and decided against in the 1940's by this nation...were they not? Definately. I would not say the 1940's but earlier with the Greeks with a the concepts of purity. While we humans strive to be better, there is beauty in imperfections. Link to post Share on other sites
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