# Woman wins beauty contest without showing face! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135 "2009-07-24T16:46:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/1 "2009-07-24T16:46:20Z")
Wow! The Saudis managed to make beauty pageants even more sexist! [http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090724/world/saudi\_women\_beauty\_offbeat](http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090724/world/saudi_women_beauty_offbeat) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/2 "2009-07-24T17:03:43Z")
Maybe not more sexist, but sexist in a different way? I still think I’d rather be judged by my “dutifulness to … parents and family, and … service to society” than how I look in a swimsuit. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/3 "2009-07-24T17:25:55Z")
I wonder how they do it in the Iraq, as such? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/4 "2009-07-24T17:26:39Z")
So if she won because of a three month period of doing good stuff wouldn’t someone one from the competition have to follow her around all the time? ETA: Porbably in a similar way they do it in the South Africa and the Asia but definitely different than the U.S. Americans do it. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/5 "2009-07-24T20:11:32Z")
On the one hand, I think that I’d rather a girl be given prizes for her grades, personality, and kindness than her looks. On the other, yeah, being measured on how you rank as a housewife-to-be is still probably more sexist than parading a girl around in her undies. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/6 "2009-07-24T21:32:00Z")
Heh heh … one of her prizes was a “pearl necklace.” Lucky girl… News is fun. ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/7 "2009-07-25T00:28:07Z")
France is to blame, they are outlawing (more or less / infidels) the burpa, I saw a really ugly person on a TV judge show Yesterday, man it looked like the ‘ugly bat’ beat her, and her daughter was a close second… it was Judge Judy ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wins-beauty-contest-without-showing-face/504135/8 "2009-07-25T01:18:44Z")
Other qualms about their society aside, I’d say it’s a good thing if we encouraged girls to be moral rather than good-looking. Whether that would change how women are valued on the sexual market is a different story, unfortunately - but at least it would be a Noble Lie.