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SteveDallas · 09-21-2002, 07:38 PM

So, it's the Miss America contest tonight. I probably won't be watching it. Sometimes my wife turns it on to watch some of the talent. (It's funny for "real" musicians to watch the Miss A contestants play piano and spend more time looking up to smile for the camera than playing... tho occasionally there is a true musician in the bunch.)

But my question is simple, tho politically incorrect.

The whole point of the pageant--not the scholarships, or public service, or any of that--the REAL point of the pageant is to parade attractive young women in front of the country. There's only one problem: I don't find the contestants, as a whole, even remotely interesting. They're so done-up and fake it's disgusting. So I wonder, what's the point of the pageant if they make the "product" (pardon the expression) unpalatable to the target demographic? Or am I just weird?

09-21-2002, 07:38 PM	#1
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Miss America: Like it or not? So, it's the Miss America contest tonight. I probably won't be watching it. Sometimes my wife turns it on to watch some of the talent. (It's funny for "real" musicians to watch the Miss A contestants play piano and spend more time looking up to smile for the camera than playing... tho occasionally there is a true musician in the bunch.) But my question is simple, tho politically incorrect. The whole point of the pageant--not the scholarships, or public service, or any of that--the REAL point of the pageant is to parade attractive young women in front of the country. There's only one problem: I don't find the contestants, as a whole, even remotely interesting. They're so done-up and fake it's disgusting. So I wonder, what's the point of the pageant if they make the "product" (pardon the expression) unpalatable to the target demographic? Or am I just weird?