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Katrina Hodge, a solider in the British army, has some pretty strong feelings against swimsuit competitions in beauty pageants.
I can agree, but then again I’m the one who thinks that beauty pageants epitomize the dumb, objectified vying for attention of people who just. don’t. matter.
Hodge, incidentally, has more of a reason to complain about the asinine practice than I do, believe it or not. Katrina, while a soldier in the military who had taken down several rebel fighters during her stint in Iraq, isn’t just a hardcore government woman: she’s a lingerie model for La Senza and appeared on last year’s Miss England. Needless to say, this woman is no shrinking violet.
Hodge recently convinced the board of Miss England to drop the swimsuit portion of the competition, stating that women, at times, come to an unfair disadvantage because it’s just not “comfortable” for them. Not only did the board acknowledge her disdain for the sexually-charged debut of skin, they raised her one and offered her input on a new segment that would be even better than the outdated swimsuit competition.
Hodge will now serve as a judge in a “sports competition”, which, as far as I’m concerned is probably fortuitously better than proving you can smile, wave and strut your bikini-clad stuff in stiletto heels.
Totally awesome. I mean, I still disagree with the whole “beauty pageant” thing and hold my stance entailing that the whole idea should be more of a “women’s recognition” thing, but I guess it’s a step in the right direction … right?
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I just love a woman in uniform,especially if she has an automatic weapon.
…….but she’s a lingerie model
?
I’m confused. Is she against women posing in skimpy clothes, or for it? Or is it okay okay if you get paid for it?
.. wait maybe it’s not okay to be…… nope I lost it.
*only okay
sorry!
Haha clearly she just wants to eliminate the competition.
right? that makes more sense.
tricky tricky women
Well I think the point was as far as the discrepancy between her being an underwear model and needing to do the swimsuit competition that there is no talent shown in that section, at all. And there aren’t really events where the women are in public wearing swimsuits afterward, so why make it a requirement for someone “auditioning” to be this public figure?
maybe they are auditioning to model lingerie.
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Do you realize how hard it is to find lingerie if your 6′4″ and 270lb.
can we call this the pot calling the kettle black? this is a lingerie model.
Modeling is her JOB.
As in, she gets paid money for it.
She was trying, and succeeded in establishing relevancy in the various portions of the pageant. The winner isn’t expected to appear in public in a swimsuit on any regular basis – if ever. Eliminating this aspect of it removes a bit of the “cattle market” feel of the whole thing.
There is no more need for the general public to examine the contestant’s hindquarters, etc. than there is a need for them to insert a cam into their mouths so that we could check the soundness of their teeth.
Good for her!
hey, someone with critical thinking skills!
Ok, that makes sense. I suppose that since a pageant contestant wants to be a relevant public figure, the swimsuit aspect is pretty stupid.
Ooor….we could totally make the swimsuit contest part of the U.S. presidential elections!!
hahhahaha!!! i like your thinking
And …let’s just watch the TV ratings of that pageant go right down the tubes.
Yes, let’s NOT objectify women if it lowers ratings. Great idea.
Ordinarily I’d agree but we’re talking about a beauty pageant here. The whole point is objectifying women and they’re volunteering themselves for ogling. People watch to see the pretty girls strutting their stuff. If people don’t watch then they don’t get advertising revenue and sponsorship deals and bang goes the scholarship fund and prizes. Removing the swim suit portion doesn’t mean they’re not being objectified but it does mean less people are likely to watch.
Bravo Rhonda! Men (and some women) are the ones who watch the pageants in order to see pretty women. If they see less of the women, I can guarantee that the ratings will go down, ergo, less money for prizes, scholarships, etc.
Hard to believe the pageant organizers were silly enough not to pick up on this and refuse Ms. Hodge’s protest.
Bigger issue here.
Who cares?
There are hundreds of thousands of scholarship programs out there – that isn’t what pageants are all about. They added the scholarships to give the pageants more legitimacy.
Do you really think that the loss of 4 or 5 scholarships is really going to matter?
Let’s just call it what it is.
Honesty is so freeing.
Does anyone else watch beauty pagents and think only of how similar they are to dog shows?
Except the participants get less treats for their performance, and the feeling up of haunches happens off camera.
You owe me a roll of paper towels, Wicked!
Yes, agreed.
Brat.
Lol, you have a point.
If this sort of mindset keeps gaining ground sooner or later beauty pageants will stop being about beauty and start being about skills and brains and ability only. The thing is without the “cattle market” effect these things are just contests. And how many women-only contests are interesting? WNBA, WPGA, WPS, all of these are boring lower-scoring versions of male events. So ether pageants become equal male and female events in which females rarely win or female-only pale shadows of real events. Nether option sounds good does it? Plus what type of woman wants to take away another woman’s chance of winning the title prettiest?
But doesn’t her reason for objecting to the swimsuit competition–”…that women, at times, come to an unfair disadvantage because it’s just not ‘comfortable’ for them’–apply equally to the sports competition? This is, after all, a beauty pageant, isn’t it? It seems to me that she’s objecting to the color when, in fact, it’s the car she doesn’t like.
If I wanted to watch women be useful and intelligent I would carry a mirror about with me as I clean the house and write my novel. I want to see hot chicks and booty and not have to pay money into people’s g strings for the right!
Katrina Hodge, stop shooting my mockingbirds and take your top off when you write to me!
Sometimes I wish I was a man, just long enough for me to say ‘fucking women’ and not look like a very well-done tranny.
Bahahahahahahahahaha you LEGEND.
it is nice to c people succeed in all things they do.i have start beauty pea gent organization it is difficult to get sponsorship,funding even donation becauz we are living in disadvantage town where is no big companies that rely on.
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