# I Am Somewhat Upset Over Two Things (Miss America related)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 16, 2013, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969 "2013-09-16T13:46:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/41 "2013-09-16T18:29:08Z")
One reason I so fully and enthusiastically support American 1st Amendment style Freedom of Speech (as opposed to more limited speech rights of Canada and Europe) is that people are free to spew whatever hateful or stupid shit they want to.
And then we know the true content of their character.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/42 "2013-09-16T18:34:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Miss America was outsourced?
I’m not sure if that’s racist or not, but I admit I laughed.
Maybe because I’m in software, where I live in constant vague fear that a competent person on the other side of the globe can undersell my services.
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### Author:  [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/43 "2013-09-16T19:02:38Z")
I think what is disturbing is not that folks like this exist, but that they apparently feel no shame in broadcasting it.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/44 "2013-09-16T19:42:01Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> Is it too much to ask that racists understand actual national origin and present a cogent, supportable theory of disdain for the object of their ire?
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> I guess so. I guess so.
We’re dealing with people who are too stupid to even handle being a bigot.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/45 "2013-09-16T19:46:32Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> I note they’re still doing the stupid swimsuit round.
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> Anyway: fuck racist people.
They really should eliminate the swimsuits.
Not that round of the competition. Just the swimsuits.
People would start watching the Miss America contest again.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/46 "2013-09-16T20:04:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Miss America was outsourced?
They’re just adopting a “follow the sun” strategy.
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### Author:  [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/47 "2013-09-16T20:51:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> They really should eliminate the swimsuits.
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> Not that round of the competition. Just the swimsuits.
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> People would start watching the Miss America contest again.
There would also be no need for “butt glue,” which one of the contestants admitted to applying backstage (so her bikini bottom wouldn’t ride up). My husband and I initially heard this as “butt lube” and had a nice laugh.
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/48 "2013-09-16T21:20:58Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#):
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> There would also be no need for “butt glue,” which one of the contestants admitted to applying backstage (so her bikini bottom wouldn’t ride up). My husband and I initially heard this as “butt lube” and had a nice laugh.
I want to be a fly on the wall the next you and your husband confuse “lube” and “glue.”
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/49 "2013-09-16T22:40:48Z")
So Miss America must be familiar with a product known as “butt glue”. And people think Miley is a bad example for girls…
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> I suspect I am really only upset at my own ignorance of what Miss America is supposed to be. I bet Nalluri won’t even hold with the time-honored tradition of having her crown taken away after posing for Playboy.
That was\* Penthouse\*. But point taken.
> [@silenus](#):
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> Which is really a shame. Although Playboy is a bit passé. These days there needs to be a sex tape.
At least it would be one worth looking at.
> [@mhendo](#):
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> I thought one interesting thing about this was that so many of these redneck types were rooting for the tattooed contestant from Kansas. Then i looked more closely and saw that the tattoo itself was the Serenity Prayer, and it made sense.
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> You just know that if it had been a more typical tattoo—a butterfly or a tribal insignia or a peace sign or something—then all these same people would have been yelling “tramp” and “whore,” and expressing incredulity that a tattooed woman could be a Miss America contestant.
No, don’t you see, she’s also an Army Sergeant. So you gotta Support the Troops[sup]TM[/sup]. And if she doesn’t win is because the Judges were PC Liberals.
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### Author:  [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/50 "2013-09-16T22:45:24Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> Is it too much to ask that racists understand actual national origin and present a cogent, supportable theory of disdain for the object of their ire?
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> I guess so. I guess so.
I am reminded of the episode of King of the Hill where Kahn moves in and Hank’s friends try and goad Cotton (a Vietnam-war vet) into a fight by saying that Kahn is Vietnamese, to which he peers in and says, “No you ain’t, you’re _Lao-atian_, ain’t yeh!”
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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/51 "2013-09-16T22:53:44Z")
Cotton fought in World War II not Vietnam
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/52 "2013-09-16T23:48:27Z")
> [@mhendo](#):
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> I thought one interesting thing about this was that so many of these redneck types were rooting for the tattooed contestant from Kansas. Then i looked more closely and saw that the tattoo itself was the Serenity Prayer, and it made sense.
Probably all for the best. Had she won they’d’ve offered her champagne and tried to wine and dine her and a woman is only so strong on the happiest day of her life so she’d have to reset her sobriety date.
> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> Cf. Salma Hayek. Google image search may be necessary to verify.
Great suggestion! Mind if I modify the search with “Salma Hayek nude” or “Salma Hayek From Dusk Till Dawn?”
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/53 "2013-09-16T23:51:29Z")
> [@PSXer](#):
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> Cotton fought in World War II not Vietnam
Doesn’t mean he didn’t spend some time in French Indochina, where he would learn about the various peoples living there.
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### Author:  [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/54 "2013-09-16T23:53:24Z")
> [@Shodan](#):
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> OK, she’s pretty and all, but can she help me set up my router?
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> Regards,
> Shodan
“Those people” can only set it North.
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/55 "2013-09-17T00:07:54Z")
> [@glee](#):
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> Also Miss America should be a cheerleader and want World Peace…
And she should want to go to college to be a veterinarian because she loves children.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/56 "2013-09-17T00:44:43Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#):
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> And she should want to go to college to be a veterinarian because she loves children.
You mean because her chow loves children?
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/57 "2013-09-17T01:12:13Z")
> [@74westy](#):
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> I want to be a fly on the wall the next you and your husband confuse “lube” and “glue.”
There was a young couple named Kelly
Who were forced to walk belly-to-belly
Because, in their haste
They used library paste
Instead of petroleum jelly
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/58 "2013-09-17T01:34:44Z")
> [@Bricker](#):
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> Is it too much to ask that racists understand actual national origin and present a cogent, supportable theory of disdain for the object of their ire?
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> I guess so. I guess so.
This guy/gal at least has a “Simpsons” understanding of geography:
_Miss America? You mean Miss 7-11._
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### Author:  [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/59 "2013-09-17T01:57:33Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> > [@Anaamika](#):
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> > I know this is all tongue in cheek and haha so funny but it’s upsetting that in 2013 we’re still not wanted.
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> Yes, a few retards on twitter accurately and precisely represent the other 300 plus million of us.
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> You know just the other day a black person said something racist about a white person. I still can’t believe that in 2013 white people are still not wanted in America.
Or, y’know, maybe **Anaamika** has actually experienced racial prejudice first hand, and reading about such jerkish comments by twitter trash really does upset her.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-somewhat-upset-over-two-things-miss-america-related/668969/60 "2013-09-17T02:14:10Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#):
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> And she should want to go to college to be a veterinarian because she loves children.
And be a freshman in her fourth year at UCLA.
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