• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The only way these things can stay relevant. Beauty pageants are so fucking cringe and should be deleted in their entirety.

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      9 months ago

      Beauty pageants are so fucking cringe and should be deleted in their entirety.

      Yeah, they are cringe, but these are adults, not children. It’s the same as a bodybuilder competition, as far as I’m concerned. Not for me, but as long as people aren’t getting hurt, it’s just entertainment. Just keep the kids out of it.

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        9 months ago

        So? Some yums deserved to be yucked. It’s nasty and outdated and toxic - we don’t want it.

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          9 months ago

          except you speak for you and no one else, there is no “we”, and a lot of ppl enjoy it

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            9 months ago

            I speak for society as a whole. People enjoy dog fights and other unethical and toxic entertainment yet that’s not an excuse to allow it. We’re better off without it objectively speaking.

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                9 months ago

                Both promote suffering for entertainment. In both cases that means both contestants and societal impact.

                In dog fights, dogs get killed and people seeing them normalized get desensitized towards animal cruelty.

                In pageants, models are incentivized to starve themselves and to subject themselves to cosmetic surgery, and people seeing that normalized feel like they need to do the same because of body image issues.

                I think the comparison is pretty spot on.

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                  9 months ago

                  This is the first I’ve heard of the cosmetic surgery! I’m surprised they don’t treat that like steroids in major sporting competitions.

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                9 months ago

                How? I genuinely believe there’s no real value in shallow events like this. I’m from Thailand and their kinda big deal here but nothing positive ever came from one other than some memes. Fortunately pageants are in extreme decline and they’ll be gone without any particular effort from us.

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        9 months ago

        This comment just absolutely disgusted me. Did you even read this crap before pressing submit?