what's with all the hysterical pearl-clutching?

[iverglas]

10. I posted this there

but I want to share it here:



I was there.

Two universities in Canada (the two with the most politically progressive/active student bodies) elected feminists as their "Miss".

A bunch of us at WLU organized a disruption of the pageant to coincide with their planned action.

At the right moment in the proceedings, the two women in the contest denounced it from the stage, we marched out, the show never aired on television as it was supposed to, and there was never another Miss Canadian University.

Well, I shouldn't say never. I googled it a while back, and I think some commercial promoter has actually managed to revive some version of it, but not with university or student body participation.

Now wouldn't it be nice if the lovely lesbian Miss California contestants would do the same?

Ah, wishful thinking.