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Title: Breast Implants, Heteronormativity and Why Miss California is a Feminist Nightma
Post by: Natasha on April 30, 2009, 05:53:19 PM
Post by: Natasha on April 30, 2009, 05:53:19 PM
Breast Implants, Heteronormativity and Why Miss California is a Feminist Nightmare.
http://www.feministing.com/archives/015149.html (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..
http://www.feministing.com/archives/015149.html (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..
Title: Re: Breast Implants, Heteronormativity and Why Miss California is a Feminist Nightma
Post by: tekla on April 30, 2009, 06:10:00 PM
Post by: tekla on April 30, 2009, 06:10:00 PM
Isn't the basic notion of a beauty contest kind of a Feminist nightmare all by itself, no matter who wins?