I got home from a track meet tonight and found Miss USA on the TV. I watched some of it, but it was difficult. It’s like watching a movie that makes fun of pageants, and Donnie and Marie Osmond didn’t really help make it any less clichéd (even though my mom says she liked them).
I do feel kind of bad for the girls who do it, though, because they all get the Miss South Carolina image and I'm sure that she was just really nervous. But to me, watching the interviews tonight didn't help shed that stereotype. They seemed to lack any substance.
I just don’t get how the judges decide the winner, either. It can’t have much to do with those interview questions, because each girl only gives one thirty second answer. The swimsuit and evening gown portions seem to be a lot more important, and that doesn’t really seem like the sort of message that’s needed in today’s society. And what does Joey Fatone know about judging beauty pageants?
The whole event seems really dated, too. Don’t you think that by now it’d be less about what a girl looks like? Or that someone would make it seem a bit less objectifying towards women and would make a Mister USA? NBC would have me watching that.
And not to be overly critical, but where do they get those dresses? Is it that hard to find a good one?
