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  • xoggoth
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    Need to be more inclusive, all species, dead or alive, real or fiction. I'd certainly vote for Miss Piggy, hot she was!

    Brazil has the best contest.

    Miss BumBum 2023 models put perky butts to good use in viral booty challenge - Daily Star
    Last edited by xoggoth; 20 December 2023, 10:09.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by MyUserName View Post
    I did not realise that these competitions were still a thing.
    They are more inclusive now...

    https://wwd.com/pop-culture/celebrit...rs-1235934116/

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  • MyUserName
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    I did not realise that these competitions were still a thing.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    She' s got more hair than me anyway.
    carpet or drapes?

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  • quackhandle
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    <Gallic shrug>


    qh

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  • xoggoth
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    She' s got more hair than me anyway.

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  • northernladuk
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    Possibly the one and only picture of Princess Charlene in which I've ever seen her smiling, if you can call that a smile. Struck me as an utterly miserable woman but bearing in mind the pictures she's looking miserable in are with her husband it might not be her fault.

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  • vetran
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    She has more hair than Princess Charlene.





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    I reckon give Miss Gilles a couple of decent dinners and Mitch would.

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  • JustKeepSwimming
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    Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
    JKS has probably nailed it but I would have thought it's such a non story it wouldn't even make a good non story. Personally I actually like short hair and particularly short asymmetrical cuts. I get hair comes in and out of fashion but can't believe anyone is bothered about the length of a contestants hair. They've got transgender women winning so who cares about a hair cut?

    That said I really don't understand why she would say 'After her victory, she hailed a win for "diversity", according to French media reports.' There is no diversity here. Hair length isn't diversity is it? That type of comment would irk me as it's just not needed so maybe it all stems from that. Has she made a point she's different because she's got short hair at all?

    I'd be more bothered that we are back to glorifying women that are just skin and bone again rather than a proper women with some curves. I'm sure the lady that won is very pretty but I don't find that attractive at all. In that picture of her in the gold dress the sash has fallen in to her bust because it's so ill fitting due to her build.
    These contests are private businesses, they rely on publicity. Personally I have no idea how they make money, or who actually watches or follows them.

    This seems to be the diversity comment. Just look at the photo of the competition (or any competition), she is the only one with short hair. She isn't some Rosa Parks but the comment does seem fair.

    'I would like to show that the competition is evolving and society too, that the representation of women is diverse, in my opinion beauty is not limited to a haircut or shapes that we have... or not,'
    I agree her weight is concerning.

    The articles are trying to poke the culture war vein.

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  • northernladuk
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    JKS has probably nailed it but I would have thought it's such a non story it wouldn't even make a good non story. Personally I actually like short hair and particularly short asymmetrical cuts. I get hair comes in and out of fashion but can't believe anyone is bothered about the length of a contestants hair. They've got transgender women winning so who cares about a hair cut?

    That said I really don't understand why she would say 'After her victory, she hailed a win for "diversity", according to French media reports.' There is no diversity here. Hair length isn't diversity is it? That type of comment would irk me as it's just not needed so maybe it all stems from that. Has she made a point she's different because she's got short hair at all?

    I'd be more bothered that we are back to glorifying women that are just skin and bone again rather than a proper women with some curves. I'm sure the lady that won is very pretty but I don't find that attractive at all. In that picture of her in the gold dress the sash has fallen in to her bust because it's so ill fitting due to her build.
    Last edited by northernladuk; 18 December 2023, 16:38.

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  • JustKeepSwimming
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    Because it's not a real story. Using twitter as the source of 'uproar' is always a non story. Politicians are politicians and more than happy to comment on a non story for clout.

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  • SueEllen
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    She looks like this

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  • SueEllen
    started a topic Don't understand..

    Don't understand..

    the Miss France row.

    She is just a pretty young thin woman with short hair. She isn't androgynous.

    https://news.sky.com/story/miss-fran...icism-13033427


    A row has erupted over the winner of this year's Miss France contest having short hair.

    Eve Gilles, who has a pixie cut and was crowned the winner at a ceremony in Dijon on Saturday, is receiving support online from politicians in France after messages criticising her hair were posted on social media.

    The 20-year-old is reportedly the first contestant with short hair ever to win the competition, which has been running for more than 100 years.

    After her victory, she hailed a win for "diversity", according to French media reports.

    "No one should dictate who you are," Le Monde quoted her as saying. "We're used to seeing beautiful Misses with long hair, but I chose an androgynous look with short hair."

    She added that every "woman is different, we're all unique".

    However, her win was criticised by some online, with one X user saying Miss France "is no longer a beauty contest but a woke contest based on inclusiveness". Another wrote: "It is no longer beauty that we judge but rather the Woke ideology of this ultra-feminist woman."

    Supporting Gilles, Green MP Sandrine Rousseau wrote: "I'm shocked by the comments on #MissFrance2024 I didn't imagine we were there. Our hair, and what we do with it, how we style it, is none of men's business."

    Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party, also commented, writing: "Support for Eve Gilles, elected Miss France, who is already suffering the violence of a society which does not accept that women define themselves in all their diversity."

    Gilles was representing Nord-Pas de Calais, a region in northern France.

    She was crowned the winner in front of 5,000 pageant fans, with half the score determined by viewers and the other half by a jury of seven women, according to Le Monde.

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