I don't know who else stooped low enough to watch Miss Universe last night. While flipping through the channels, I made Husband stop so I could check out the swim suit competition. I thought that it would be a display of bodies that I wish I could have (yes, I am obsessed with it). Instead, it was a showcase of hip bones and rib cages.
Several of the women from Europe and Asia looked like $2 prostitutes (actually, most of the women looked like $2 prostitutes) who had recently been released from a concentration camp. All of their faces were slathered with makeup, eyes lined with enough liner to paint a freeway (in California). During the swim suit shoot, they writhed on the side of a swimming pool, attempting to look sexy, while also draped in gold chains...and when I say chains, I mean CHAINS. You never knew when they crane was going to drop, hook 'em up, and hoist them like an I-beam.
The best part of the night was when Miss USA, during the middle of the evening gown competition, stepped on her dress and FELL DOWN. Yup, took a digger right there on the stage in her slut dress. Bless her heart, she got right back up and pretended like it never happened although I'm sure that everyone and their dog is looking at it on youtube today (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZd9UGV0uI).
Miss Japan eventually won (Miss USA finished fifth). The funny thing about Miss Japan is that she doesn't look Japanese....she'd obviously had a boob job because I've NEVER seen a Japanese woman that looked like that.
The thing that really got to me, though, is the fact that there are little girls out there who saw this competition and who are now basing their beauty scale on these scarcrow women. No wonder no one in the world has good self esteem. The standard for beauty is so messed up.
5 comments:
I know!!! At least there was one funny moment to the contest, albeit an unintentional one.
Consider this piece of irony. American society defines beauty as being slim and trim. Yet, 60% of the American population is overweight or obese. Where is the disconnect there? If we Americans are so obsessed with and pressured into having healthy bodies, why are we the fattest nation in the world?
I don't know the answer to that. Perhaps we eat to hide our depression over NOT being thin??
All I know is that being a healthy weight is important. However, "healthy" does not mean "close to death", "bones sticking out everywhere", or "dressing like a prostitute".
That could also be true. We eat to make ourselves feel better about NOT being thin...talk about irony!
I find that a lot of people are fat because they don't drink or smoke...they have to have SOMETHING to be addicted to.
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