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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.singles,net.motss
Subject: Re: Miss America
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 13:02:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 13:02:05 1984
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Personally, I don't feel very sympathetic.  If you want to know my
honest reaction to the whole incident, it is the following: the only
thing dumber than posing for Penthouse magazine is taking part in the
Miss America pageant.

Beauty queens have been dethroned for breaking their employers' prudish
standards for as long as there have been beauty queens.  The fact that
her spread in Penthouse involves some staged lesbianism adds to the
titillation of the "scandal," but I suspect it would be a scandal in
any case.

Of course, the very similar nature of beauty pageants and the soft porn
industry adds to the irony of the situation.  Both draw on the same
pool of naive young women (girls, actually) with dreams of stardom;
both pander to some ridiculously artificial ideas of what women ought
to be about.

As far as I am concerned, this is a contractual dispute between Miss
Whatshername and her two employers.  Maybe she's been shafted, but I
suspect we'll never know; I certainly don't see any point in making a
martyr out of her.

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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