Agreed. Maybe I’d feel we’d be more equal if boys and men were subject to the same visual and moral standards.
If you look like a total lean hunk and fill out your swimsuit nicely, we’ll give you a college scholarship. :dubious: But we’ll take it away again if you gain two pounds.
Wait, why shouldn’t people who work in fashion/beauty industry be able to impose “certain standards of beauty”?
“subject”? This girl chose, entirely on her own, to enter and compete in a beauty contest. A contest based upon judging her physical attractiveness. If you don’t want to be subject to some idiot calling you fat, don’t enter a beauty contest.
Burrito. Taco taco. Burrito. Taco. Taco taco.
Don’t think just because I got a lot of money,
I’ll give you taco-flavored kisses, honey.
Fulfill all your wishes
with my taco-flavored kisses!
Maybe she could get together with that race car driver who was out eating a taco.
It’s because of the association with mimes.
At age 17, I doubt it was entirely on her own. Most beauty queens start as infants and are pushed to keep it up by controlling mothers. I speak as someone with some experience in the matter in my youth. But, 'nuff said on that.
I do think she is smart to push back against this new pagent exec who obviously has something against her that isn’t entirely disinterested.
She is way too skinny…I’d say she needs to pack on some tacos. Perhaps some refried beans as well (don’t forget the lard…it’s VERY important for packing on the pounds in the right places. Everything is better with lard!). Maybe a few tamales.
And, personally, I like mute instead of moot. It shows a certain lack of education and refinement that I enjoy. I also like axing questions and putting the distinctive ‘x’ in eXHpecially.
-XT
I probably should have italicized certain. Those who work in the fashion and beauty industries can attempt to impose certain standards of beauty (though as is clear whenever models’ weight comes up, they are all under the impression they’re ‘just following orders’), but those who also work in the industry, related industries such as advertising and entertainment, are its target audience, consume its goods or are simply influenced by it (read: just about everyone) have a right to complain and shame. Or even just ask that the law get involved (e.g. child pornography laws, child labor laws).
I’ll remember that if I come acrosst you, but I don’t get out your way off-ten.
What? No jokes yet about Cattle Mutes?
Even more bluntly: if you aren’t prepared to evince the feminine beauty ideal held by gay men, don’t enter a beauty contest.
To the point: judging from photos, she’s well within the range at which I’d hit it, and would have to hit the taco bar long and hard before she’d risk exceeding the upper threshold of VT Hittability*.
Really. Some people get flustrated over the weirdest things.
must xcape this thread…
♫ One of these things is not like the other… ♫
Cradle robber.
SFG, no lie; I think she is gorgeous. But I hate to see someone brought up to value only their looks. Looks fade - or are botoxed into scary facsimiles thereof (Nicole Kidman anyone?).
It’s obvious that she is NOT overweight, and she has a lot more going for her than her looks and yet she is told to lay off the tacos. I’d want to know a whole lot more about the whole case if I were being asked to make a real judgement. In the meantime, good for her for asserting her position instead of letting herself be walked on.
If that had happened to me at her age, I might have retired to a closet for the next ten years.
It sound like you have an interesting story of your own, carnut.
Post it some time!
Someday maybe, but don’t hold your breath waiting for it. 
I can’t figure out what went on here - I think both sides are lying their asses off.