What is the world coming to when you have to be suspicious even of camel beauty pageants?
And it’s not like they can make it up in the Talent compretition.
Deeply disappointed when I saw this wasn’t about toes.
Oh, I thought maybe this was seem weird “camel toe” contest. Botox might still be used, lol.
In all honesty, I thought this would be a beauty contest sponsored by Camel Cigarettes.
Do you think the press knew about this a few days ago but sat on the story until Wednesday?
They may be concerned that the story could be construed to be racist or demeaning.
Gotta make them worth walking a mile for.
It is racist and demeaning. We have livestock shows in North America too and they have rules against some kinds of cosmetic alterations. We don’t call them pig beauty contests.
“Camel … beauty” Now, THAT is an oxymoron if I’ve seen one! 
Am I being whooshed? I am sometimes involved in conversations about dog shows and have been know to refer to them as ‘dog beauty contests’. What race or races are being demeaned? I don’t think I was being insensitive to dogs, pigs, or camels. 
It’s not racist and demeaning. The notion of a camel beauty contest is as funny as the idea of a pig beauty contest – no cultural context needed. If you haven’t encountered it before the notion that people could be cheating on an animal show is initially surprising. But I’ve never heard of a case of BOTOX injections being an issue at the Westminster Dog Show. Or at any livestock competition sat a county or state fair (and I’ve attended a lot of those).
It has happened (not Botox, but injections purely for appearance). This was back in 1995.
I do get a hint of “haha look at those funny foreigners with their camel beauty contests”, but that’s probably just because of the “camel jockey” slur.
And yet, nobody ever, in the history of western agriculture has ever called a livestock sale a pig beauty contest.
They would if they were writing a humorous article about it.
And, in fact, they did:
Was there lipstick involved in the latter?
Being a camel dresser must be the worst job in the world.
“Dammit, you’ll wear those pajamas and like it.”
To be sure, it’s widely considered fair game these days to make fun of Texans.
(With due respect, of course, to the Texans here on this Board.)
I wonder if there was a “Some Camel!” sign.
I cannot speak to whether it’s racist and demeaning, because of my position of privilege living in a culture with less hilarious livestock. Perhaps we should listen to an oppressed llama herder’s perspective on the matter.