NationStates Jolt Archive

"These beauty pageants are a disgrace to women everywhere!" shouts feminist campaigner, Prudence Hanover. "They objectify the female body and re-enforce negative stereotyping! They celebrate the appearance instead of the personality! What message is this sending out to our children? Do we want them to think shallowness and vanity are virtues? Ban beauty contests! We must focus the education of our progeny on ethics and equality or suffer the consequences!"
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"I agree that the pageants should be banned," pontificates renowned moralist, the Ever So Slightly Reverend Melbourne Shiomi. "But purely in the name of moral decency! All those fashion stores that sponsor these contests make lots of money from this blasphemy and that is just plain wrong! These women wear revealing clothing that seek to entice and seduce young men. As such, we should go a step further, and institute a dress code! Long, plaid skirts for the girls, with necklines that never drop below the base of the neck! Only then will the women of our nation be cleansed of sin!"
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"What in the name of all that's decent and good are you talking about?" exclaims Sue-Ann Chicago, leader of the egalitarian civil rights movement 'Everyone Is Equal, Dammit'. "Obviously these pageants will always be sexist unless they're open to everyone. Admiring women only for their beauty is an insult to their intelligence and the beauty of men! It's dually sexist! Open up the pageant to both sexes!"
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There's no option to SUPPORT the pageants. You can either

A) ban them
B) ban them and force women to adhere a dress-code
C) make them open to everyone

These are all just nonsensical options.

If you want the beauty contest to go ahead in its orginal form, you may dismiss it.

I dismissed that one - the only one I've ever dismissed (and I get 2 a day). But it would be gratifying if there was a pro-pageant option with effects. I understand the logic, however. Dismissing the issue and making no changes are one and the same. But if there was a way to keep the pageant going and make it clear that it's not going to sway from the trend, perhaps that could be an option.
Perhaps when an issue is in motion, as that one is, it's too late to do anything as sweeping as add another option? I don't know. But anyway, I wanted to mention this but I was too shy, so I'm glad someone else did because now I found a voice :)
Thanks.

There could be an option in complete oppostion to Options 1 and 2 - maybe one where the government officially supports the pageant and beauty becomes every girl's life dream, instead of education? You should be able to start a sexist society with the issue. Bring on the hilarious nations full of grating, braindead models!

Sounds like you've got some good ideas - why not use it to submit your own issue? :)

I've submitted about 4 issues, none of which I ever heard of again.

We won't have got to them yet. We're still working on the July-November batch.

I vote that this issue be changed to have a fourth option that supports beauty pageants as is. It's ridiculous to not have one.

that means dismissing, pure and simple.

There could be an option in complete oppostion to Options 1 and 2 - maybe one where the government officially supports the pageant and beauty becomes every girl's life dream, instead of education? You should be able to start a sexist society with the issue. Bring on the hilarious nations full of grating, braindead models!

As bad as it is, I would like to see something like this play out as well.