# Beauty Pageant participants have always looked fake, but this is ridiculous!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 23, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207 "2010-12-23T18:12:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/1 "2010-12-23T18:12:11Z")
[Seriously, these girls don’t even look real anymore!](http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/12/beauty-pageant-for-dolls-miss-barbie.html)
Am I the only one surprised that men are in charge of these “contestants”? I expected little girls to be involved. That would actually be cute. This is just…weird.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/2 "2010-12-23T18:24:32Z")
Seems that objectification works!
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/3 "2010-12-23T18:57:53Z")
Life in plastic–it’s fantastic!
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### Author:  [@Owlbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Owlbow)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/4 "2010-12-23T19:43:41Z")
What a wonderful world…
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### Author:  [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/5 "2010-12-23T20:12:45Z")
Am I the only one a little weirded out by the fact that it’s men in charge of this contest?
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/6 "2010-12-23T20:34:27Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> …Am I the only one surprised that men are in charge of these “contestants”? …
> [@dhkendall](#):
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> Am I the only one a little weirded out by the fact that it’s men in charge of this contest?
Apparently not.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/7 "2010-12-23T20:49:46Z")
Am I the only one weirded out that this contest even _exists?_
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/8 "2010-12-23T20:53:59Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#):
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> Am I the only one weirded out that this contest even _exists?_
No.
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/9 "2010-12-23T20:59:05Z")
And yet I’m sure any one of these Barbies could handle the Q&A portion of the contest better than a [del]non-plastic[/del] live contestant.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/10 "2010-12-23T21:55:07Z")
I don’t know, one of 'em is a Moron.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/11 "2010-12-23T21:58:32Z")
Well, I figured they’d be gay men (er, not to stereotype). I mean, aren’t there a lot of gay men involved in the non-doll beauty pageant world?
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/12 "2010-12-23T22:32:47Z")
It’s not that there aren’t grown women out there who are insane about their Barbie dolls, it’s just that it takes a man to actually be competitive about it . . .
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### Author:  [@lisalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisalan)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/13 "2010-12-24T02:18:29Z")
All I see is a bunch of freaky grown men playing with Barbies.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/14 "2010-12-24T03:21:14Z")
Why don’t they rename the contest to the Mr. Barbie Doll Obsessed Gay Venezuelan competition?
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/15 "2010-12-24T05:01:38Z")
I’m not really surprised. The stereotype is that most designers are gay. And it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of them started on dolls.
Also, the people on _Project Runway_ had to design for Barbie at least once.
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/16 "2010-12-24T05:50:32Z")
They should’a laid off the Botox. Too late now . . .
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/17 "2010-12-24T06:44:52Z")
They have to be gay. If they were straight, the dolls would be in short skirts, or nude and anatomically correct.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/18 "2010-12-24T07:30:41Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> They have to be gay. If they were straight, the dolls would be in short skirts, or nude and anatomically correct.
Or inflatable.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/19 "2010-12-24T14:53:36Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#):
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> Or inflatable.
And they’d be married to them.
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### Author:  [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beauty-pageant-participants-have-always-looked-fake-but-this-is-ridiculous/565207/20 "2010-12-24T15:52:47Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> And they’d be married to them.
… and the weird comes full circle …
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