Is Miss Teen USA perpetuating outdated beauty standards?

[G01]

That video is hilarious! I agree with the blog Evo quoted. It sounded like she was just naming names of places she was told were top stories in the news. (i.e. she thought, or was told, if she mentioned Iraq enough she'd sound more in tune with current events and sound smart and caring...) This is why the Q&A session MUST stay in these contests!

 

[Art]

To make things worse, in spite of the horrendous map shortage in the U.S., she wants to give out maps to children in other countries!

Hey, Miss S. Carolina! We can't afford to go handing out maps willy-nilly to foreigners! There are U.S. Americans who need them! Charity begins at home, honey.

Maybe it's a cunning gov't scheme and they have deliberately deleted the USA off all world maps so terrorists and illegal immigrants can't find it

 

[trinitron]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no

 

[Moonbear]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W45DRy7M1no

I'm trying to figure out if there was a problem with the teleprompter (maybe it was low budget and the guy holding the cue cards was wiggling them too much while he was trying to read them) or if he forgot his glasses that day. A bit different when trying to read someone else's words scripted for you than to have to free-form your own response under pressure of competition and with a time-limit.

I have had plenty of students perform similarly badly when answering questions under pressure too. The first Q&A at the end of their first talk given to the department can be very painful. Now, there are times when they get stunned because they really haven't given thought to that particular question and aren't yet familiar enough with the subject to answer it adequately, but many times, they really do know the answer and could give it if they were asked informally about it, but the idea of standing in front of a room and answering a question with an entire audience watching has chased all intelligent answers far from their stammering tongue. By the time they get to those questions, it's near the end of the competition and I'm sure anxiety levels are incredibly high.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Maybe it's a cunning gov't scheme and they have deliberately deleted the USA off all world maps so terrorists and illegal immigrants can't find it

Brilliant! Now if we could just put a big blue mesh tarp over the country, we'd blend right in with the ocean and they'd never find us!

 

[turbo]

Brilliant! Now if we could just put a big blue mesh tarp over the country, we'd blend right in with the ocean and they'd never find us!

I think we should level the cities and plant trees to make them think the US is Canada. Nobody seriously wants to bomb Canada.