Identity Politics Lunacy

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(CNN)The next edition of the Miss America pageant will scrap swimsuits and will be more inclusive to women of all sizes, the contest announced Tuesday.

Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of the Miss America board of directors, announced on "Good Morning America" that the event will no longer feature a swimsuit portion.

Miss America will be a competition, not a pageant, Carlson said on the show Tuesday.

"We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance. That's huge," she said.

Carlson also said the new Miss America competition will be more inclusive to women of "all shapes and sizes."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/us/miss-america-swimsuit-trnd/index.html

On what other basis do you judge contestants in a beauty contest?

I'm imagining a maths or spelling contest where we Judge contestants not merely by their maths or languages prowess but by the thickness of their shoe soles all so that we look inclusive. This way even morons have a snowball's chance in hell of winning

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A more wholesome sense of beauty beyond anorexia and unnatural symmetric looks exists in the real world.  Have you ever seen some of these winners up close?  It does not compute.  Also there is more to beauty than just physical appearance.

I think inclusive is the right way to go.  I have heard that in Rwanda, if you are Hutu, you need not even try to bother.

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Right wingers claim inclusion and affirmative action are liberal lunacy. I agree with their views sometimes but not in this one.  The identity concept does not feature here as the physical appearance is neither racial nor ethnic.

Pastor struggles with these issues... his colleagues are firmly on the Right.

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A more wholesome sense of beauty beyond anorexia and unnatural symmetric looks exists in the real world.  Have you ever seen some of these winners up close?  It does not compute.  Also there is more to beauty than just physical appearance.

I think inclusive is the right way to go.  I have heard that in Rwanda, if you are Hutu, you need not even try to bother.

There is beauty without the contest values of weight and height and catwalk. Where do you stop?

It is hypocrisy claiming that removing bikini makes it more inclusive. Whatever they do, some will be left out, and that's the entitr purpose of a contest

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A more wholesome sense of beauty beyond anorexia and unnatural symmetric looks exists in the real world.  Have you ever seen some of these winners up close?  It does not compute.  Also there is more to beauty than just physical appearance.

I think inclusive is the right way to go.  I have heard that in Rwanda, if you are Hutu, you need not even try to bother.

There is beauty without the contest values of weight and height and catwalk. Where do you stop?

It is hypocrisy claiming that removing bikini makes it more inclusive. Whatever they do, some will be left out, and that's the entitr purpose of a contest

They'll be left out.  But for better reasons than because they don't look like a stick insect.  There is more to a person than physical dimensions.

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A more wholesome sense of beauty beyond anorexia and unnatural symmetric looks exists in the real world.  Have you ever seen some of these winners up close?  It does not compute.  Also there is more to beauty than just physical appearance.

I think inclusive is the right way to go.  I have heard that in Rwanda, if you are Hutu, you need not even try to bother.

There is beauty without the contest values of weight and height and catwalk. Where do you stop?

It is hypocrisy claiming that removing bikini makes it more inclusive. Whatever they do, some will be left out, and that's the entitr purpose of a contest

They'll be left out.  But for better reasons than because they don't look like a stick insect.  There is more to a person than physical dimensions.

Removing bikini does not address the fact that beauty contests are all about looks with a rumor of brains thrown in. They were never about exhausting all desirable traits in women and nor are they about to.