Breast Implants, Heteronormativity and Why Miss California is a Feminist Nightma

[Natasha]

Breast Implants, Heteronormativity and Why Miss California is a Feminist Nightmare.

http://www.feministing.com/archives/015149.html
4/30/09

Pageants only make sense because of binary gender roles that cater to mainstream understandings of femininity. They are a fetishized spectacle of femininity to the point where it is even OK if they are artificially constructed as long as they are pushing a normative ideal of what a "real woman" is. As feminists we know already that ideal is socially constructed. Her blatant homophobia just adds to the already established straight, cis-woman and white standard of beauty necessary for pageants to exist and to perpetuate the illusion of binary genders..

[tekla]

Isn't the basic notion of a beauty contest kind of a Feminist nightmare all by itself, no matter who wins?