When Iraqi-born Huda Falah, 18, won Denmark's first Miss Headscarf competition earlier this month because of "her blue headscarf and her beautiful, irresistible style," many Danes simply smiled, shrugged and moved on.
Others saw the pageant as emblematic of the growing influence of Islam in Denmark and what some perceive as its anti-democratic and woman-hostile spirit.
"The headscarf symbolises that women are inferior to men (and) I don't think this is something we should promote through a beauty competition," Inger Stoejberg, a high-ranking member of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Liberal Party said in a newspaper interview ahead of the pageant.
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Now that may or may not be a valid argument, depending on where you fall on the political spectrum, but am I the only one who thinks we, as women, should be MORE offended by having our daughters and sisters pranced around in bathing suits and high heels for these beauty (oh, sorry, SCHOLARSHIP) pageants? I mean, so what if some folks in the Muslim community want to hold their own pageant? How is this so much more offensive than the traditional beauty pageant?Â
I mean, do men look at beauty queens and say "WOW! Boy, does she seem like a strong-minded, self-reliant, liberated woman!" NO! There is a reason the swimsuit portion of the pageant is the most popular: pretty girls in bathing suits. Do we think that somehow having young girls strut on stage in high heels with all of their...eh hem...ASSets showing is anything but demeaning to women?Â
Pot. Allow me to introduce you to Kettle.
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Comments: 24
A bikini is now a normal fashion, skin is beautiful, and if a scholarship is won because you can pull it off and choose to try, hooray.
Men need more chances to parade around naked and win that, too.
Islam just wants to take all that "humanism" away, when it's radicalized and pushed to extremes (and that's where it's going right now).
We are ALL sex objects (hooray) - the trick is to also try and be a lot more, in addition.
Oh, and if you want to see men parading around in next to nothing, Watch RAW or Smackdown.
(But do the smackdown men win scholarships?)
If you want to argue about beauty pageants having more variety in body sizes, that's a great topic. But that's a "more" not "less" thing. Yes, women come in different sizes and pageants should celebrate that, definately.
And high fashion models that look like dead heroin addicts is especially to be treated with horror.
A burka is the other extreme.
And ...
What's wrong with high heels? Look at all that Joan Crawford accomplished in them.
And yet I can never find nice flats without an open toe. Where I work, we can't wear open toe shoes. I work in the office, but because I may have to go down into the warehouse I have to abide by the "no open toe shoes" policy.
And in the winter, do you know how hard it is to find boots WITHOUT a heel? I mean, who wears boots with heels on ICE!?
um..well..see...I was doing...research...yeah...that's it. Research.
Hey, at least I didn't post one of the old Shawn Michael's photos from Playgirl...
Not that I ever had that issue. I'm just saying that, if I DID, I could have posted that instead. But...
Oh, I'll shut up now ;-)
At least a girl in a bikini has had to show efforts in excersice diet and personal discipline to maintain that beauty. A scarf is a scarf on whoever has it on. It seems more of an award to the weaver than the woman. ? ?
PLUS which the head scarf is a definate symbol of the oppression of women while the bikini is a sign of the women's TRUE control of the world. It is almost a symbol for the oppression of MEN ! ! I swear that the thong was invented to enslave men's will to that of the women around them.
Oh and BTW , I would gladly parade Around in a speedo for Ginny !! ! ( I just hope she wouldn't throw fruit and then run away )
A truly physically BEAUTIFUL woman has to be by definition not too skinny OR too large, hence the medical term " ideal body fat index "
Like many truths in life, its harsh and not politically correct, BUT nontheless true.
2 no point in headscarf beauty competition, its more of a face competition
3 nothing wrong with bikini and high heels if your proud of your body and enjoy beauty pageants, these girls take allot of time and work harrd for there bodys let them show off
4 if you see a model and think you need to be like her.. that its unrealistic (a) thats your own insecurities (b) it is realistic, it just takes work !, painstaking backbreaking work
5 not using great beauty (if you have it)
is like christiano ronaldo not playing football
shaq not playing basketball
johnny wilkinson not playing rugby etc etc..