<p>I can’t believe educated people on this forum actually follow or give five seconds of interest to this crap. I mean that seriously. I just don’t get it. Do you all watch reality TV shows too?</p>
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<p>N-mom,
I think you are overestimating the cred given to Miss America, et al. nowadays. And have you watched the men’s body-building competitions? They wear a tiny thong! lol</p>
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<p>As someone on this website once taught me, “anything that exists, is worth knowing about.” :)</p>
<p>"I kinda like beauty pageants, but don’t understand the time and money spent on:</p>
<p>cigarettes and cigars
earrings on men
more than 1 set of earrings on women
motorcycles
fancy fingernails
tattoos and piercings
men wearing sandals
excessive photos of people used as decorations in houses
guys who spend all weekend manicuring their lawns
Yale
sports cars
auto/motorcycle/horse racing (maybe if they were all done simultaneously on the same track it would be interesting, but…)
The music of Elton John
Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Pfeiffer, Demi Moore, Orlando Bloom, and Charlize Theron "</p>
<p>Great point!
I enjoy beauty, fashion, makeup…it was a lovely evening full of grace, elegance, camaraderie, diversity…and the candidates looked beautiful! Beautiful representation from all the States. When I see the program I focus in the beauty, dresses, music, questions and festivities. </p>
<p>“I can’t believe educated people on this forum actually follow or give five seconds…”
Not many great programs as Jeopardy. Comparing this program with what we see while changing channels, Miss USA is a very innocent, refreshing, and lovely program.</p>
<p>However, what I really DON’T CELEBRATE is Madonna and Spears kissing in TV and all the perversion in almost every program you turn in…and then to endure the imitators justifying their behavior-- "But such person and such other did it too…</p>
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<p>Have you seen pole dancing? It’s not really dancing. It’s more like porn than anything else.</p>
<p>I didn’t see the pageant but I’m kind of appalled at how skinny the women are in the photos in the links. They are really bony. With all that heavy makeup, pushed up enormous breasts (may not be implants but they seem to strive for that look) and the like, it’s not my idea of grace or elegance. It’s no surprise that pageants are a source of derision.</p>
<p>Yeah well I don’t get any of that stuff on the list either! I watch very little TV, do not read women’s magazines at the doctors’ office, nor care about celebrity gossip. I’m not into owning lots of shoes, I don’t buy most skin products (since they don’t actually work), nor do I have an interest in breast implants, what celebrity just adopted a third world baby, or what Julianna Moore thinks about global warming.</p>
<p>“men wearing sandals”</p>
<p>What is your beef with this??
Personally, I don’t get 50 year old portly dentists riding Harleys (and wearing leather jackets festooned with the Harley logo). But there you go.</p>
<p>However, what I really DONT CELEBRATE is Madonna and Spears kissing in TV and all the perversion in almost every program you turn in.</p>
<p>Well all I can say is- you save alot of money by not having cable.
I don’t watch TV- although as mentioned, I do watch a couple shows when I think of it- free on Hulu.
Problem with not wanting to get a glimpse of the " perversion" of the week- solved!</p>
<p>See how easy that is?</p>
<p>It isn’t a question of either watching young women use their tanned- tweezed- waxed- siliconed- tinted & bleached bodies to compete with other young women with various nutjobs as the judges or watching a violent and graphic filled show.</p>
<p>If that is all is available on your television- why have it?</p>
<p>mouse, portly dentists on Harleys is included in my overall distaste for motorcycles.</p>
<p>re men and sandals…guess you never watched “That '70’s Show.” </p>
<p>I think my right not to be grossed out by some guy’s feet outweighs his right to have his feet air-cooled. Really…are your feet THAT hot that you can’t wear a pair of canvas Converse sneakers?</p>
<p>I get so hot at the gym that I can’t even wear a bra and a shirt- I have to wear a " bra-top".
I do wear shoes but that is only because they make me!</p>
<p>However, what I really DON’T CELEBRATE is Madonna and Spears kissing in TV</p>
<p>why do you consider that a perversion? aren’t they both adults on an adult television show?</p>
<p>I would love to do pole dancing. I think it looks like a great workout - especially for the upper body and it looks like fun. I loved watching the Miss America pageant with my mom when I was a kid. My best friend and I used to play “Miss America” at her pool. We would do the wave and walk on the diving board and act surprised when we reached the end and walked off. We thought we were hysterical. We also played “baptism” and that was a real hoot.</p>
<p>I’m just a bit surprised that she is Muslim & dresses that way … will be interested in the discussions I am sure to hear from our Muslim students (who generally wear traditional dress). I am also surprised at the lack of public discussion (intelligent discussion, not sensational journalism) regarding this topic. I assumed she was Chaldean. A Muslim in that pageant seems odd …</p>
<p>I kind of figured that greenery was a homophobe from the nasty comments about johnny weir, and the perversion comment confirms it. I’m not the least bit surprised, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Homophobe? Would that be be like the opposite of heterophobe?</p>
<p>“I assumed she was Chaldean. A Muslim in that pageant seems odd …”</p>
<p>I am wondering whether the Detroit Free Press – which is the paper that reported that he is Muslim got the story wrong. </p>
<p>Their story said: “Fakih, of Lebanese descent, went into the pageant as Miss Michigan. She is thought to be the first Arab American and Muslim to become Miss USA.”</p>
<p>Fakih is from Dearborn, which has a large population of Chaldeans, who are Arabs who are Christian. I suspect that she is Chaldean and Christian.</p>
<p>I, too, highly doubt that a Muslim would be participating in a beauty pageant. I believe that doing that would be considered shameful by Muslims, not something to celebrate. I also suspect that the Arabs who were cheering her on were Chaldean.</p>
<p>[Metro</a> Detroit celebrates Miss USA’s Arab-American winner | freep.com | Detroit Free Press](<a href=“http://www.freep.com/article/20100517/NEWS05/5170417/1318/Metro-Detroit-celebrates-Miss-USAs-first-Arab-American-winner]Metro”>http://www.freep.com/article/20100517/NEWS05/5170417/1318/Metro-Detroit-celebrates-Miss-USAs-first-Arab-American-winner)</p>
<p>Fakih is actually a Maronite Christian which is essentially the same as Catholic. Lebanon was at its inception a majority Christian enclave split off from Syria after the first world war. In recent years, the percentage of Christians has shrunk to about a third of the population after successive waves of emigration.</p>
<p>I know lots of people from Lebanon and none of them are Muslim. I wouldn’t have assumed she was.</p>
<p>I don’t think Dearborn has a lot of Chaldeans…they are mostly in the northern suburbs like Southfield. I’ve worked in both Southfield and Dearborn…</p>
<p>My BIL from Lebanon is Maronite Catholic. Definitely don’t assume Lebanese are Muslim.</p>