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Original Technorati articles tagged “pageants”

• in Technorati Women
  Toddlers, Tiaras, and Fame Seeking Moms
  Do pageants cause more harm than good?
  by aflynn / on Jan 16, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Child Beauty Pageants Coming to Australia
  Child beauty pageants - are they really that bad?
  by jillinamillion / on May 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “pageants”

 

• Miss USA Winners Pose Naked In Sexy New PETA Ad

  
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  It’s not unusual to see pageant winners posing naked, but this time it’s actually for a good cause!   Miss USA past winners have gotten together ahead of this weekend’s 2013 Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas and posed nude in a sexy new ad for the animal rights organization PETA . (Photo Credit: Fadil ...
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• Glamorous NSA Used to Hold Beauty Pageants

  
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  NSA spies are just like us: they like to judge pretty girls in tiaras. Read more...        
  5 days ago

• Style Throwback: Miss USA

  
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  Filed under: Style Throwback Shes beauty and shes grace...shes Miss United States!%VIRTUAL-Gallery-191316% Shes beauty and shes grace...shes Miss United States! The 2013 Miss USA pageant airs live on NBC this Sunday, and to say were more than a little excited would be an understatement. After all, whos guilty ...
  5 days ago

• One-Armed Miss Iowa Nicole Kelly To Compete In Miss America Beauty Pageant [Video]

  
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  One-armed Miss Iowa 2013 Nicole Kelly made history on Saturday when she was crowned the winner of the three-day Miss Iowa beauty pageant competition in Davenport, Iowa. Born without her left forearm, the 23-year-old Miss Iowa isn’t just another skinny blonde with bleached teeth. When she competes for the title of ...
  6 days ago

• Jimmy Riveria - Manhunt Puerto Rico 2012 by Sinead Rosario

  
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  Jimmy Riveria - Manhunt Puerto Rico 2012 Photo © Sinead Rosario
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• "One-armed woman wins Miss Iowa 2013."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 685
  Its Nicole Kelly! “As I grew up I learned to counterbalance the initial stares I received from people with an outgoing personality that would not give into ‘no.... This means that I tried everything. From baseball, to dance, to diving - there is nothing I would not try. I found my passion within a world where I ...
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• Miss Iowa: One Arm Isn’t Stopping Her From Reigning

  
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  The newly-crowned Miss Iowa , who was born with her left forearm missing, isn’t letting that stop her from taking on the duties of her title. She also says she’s going to use her experience to help others overcome their disabilities. “As I grew up, I learned to counterbalance the initial stares I received from ...
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• Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

  
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  Think Progress  has compiled the seven most sexist gun ads . Today is the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. Why haven’t we closed the gap? The 10 best male rappers –written up as though they were female. The false paradox: freedom of expression and sexist hate speech . An illustrated guide to ...
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• How 1951 Miss America Sparked the Miss USA Pageant

  
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  Ever wonder what the difference is between Miss America and Miss USA , aside from the latter’s affiliation with beauty hair king Donald Trump? Two words: swimsuit competition. Yes, both competitions include a swimsuit portion, known delicately in Miss America as “Lifestyle and Fitness,” but it was swimwear ...
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• No bikinis at Miss World Pageant? This time PC and fear of reprisal has gone too far!

  
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  Whoever actually tunes in to watch the Miss World Pageant likely does so in large part for the bikini portion of the program! If thats why you watch then feel free to tune out this year as the Pageant organizers, pandering to their Muslim hosts in Indonesia, have mandated bathing suits that will avoid revealing the ...
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• Terrible News, Bros: The Miss World Pageant Has Enacted A Bikini Ban

  
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  Everyone remembers where they were when Miss World Italy was crowned in 2009. There are several reasons that I don’t talk about organized religion at all, with the most notable being that the Vatican threatened to have me killed after my 600th request to replace the Virgin Mary in art with pictures of Kate Upton. ...
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• Sorry, Midriff-Lovers: No Bikinis in the Miss World Pageant This Year

  
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  When the Miss World pageant began in London in 1951, the winner — Swedens Kiki Haakonson — was crowned in a two-piece swimsuit. But this year, the pageant is being held in Indonesia — worlds most populous Islamic country — and bikinis will not be present. Read more...        
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• The beauty pageant and British society

  
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  By Rebecca Conway Next week sees the culmination of the 2013 search for Miss England . Aspiring beauty queens from across the nation will compete for the title and the chance to contend for the Miss World crown in front of a global audience of one billion television viewers. Studies of the beauty contest in ...
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• Toddlers & Tiaras: It’s Boogie Shoes And Performance Enhancing Pixie Stix When Bailey’s Pageants Goes Disco.

  
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      Shut Up with these sick shoes. I am so totally wearing them to the next Real Housewives of Texas Reunion Show.           Hand to Gawd. It’s only sweet tea, soda, pixie stix and that stuff they give to greyhounds before the race starts.           Bitch, please.         ...
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• Bikini Portion Banned From Miss World Pageant

  
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  Contestants at the 2013 Miss World competition, held in Bali this September, will be required to wear sarongs instead of bikinis, CBS News reports. Apparently the no-swimsuit rule only applies ...
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• Bikini Portion Banned From Miss World Pageant

  
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  Contestants at the 2013 Miss World competition, held in Bali this September, will be required to wear sarongs instead of bikinis, CBS News reports. Apparently the no-swimsuit rule only applies to this year and came about after local organizers requested that the traditional Muslim customs of Indonesia be respected. So ...
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• Bikini Ban: Miss World Contestants to Wear Sarongs

  
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  Though they’ve been a staple of beauty pageants for decades, bikinis are not welcome this year at the Miss World competition. According to an Associated Press report , the organizers of the Miss World beauty pageant have banned bikinis from being worn on-stage at the competition. Instead, contestants will be ...
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• Erika Harold: Photos of Miss Cutie to Mrs Smith

  
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  Occasionally we hear stories of life imitating art, and such is the case of a modern day Mrs. Smith goes to Washington if she has her way. Erika Harold (photos below) is the former Miss America 2003 who has come a heck of a long way since her early pageant success. Learn the ins and [...]
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• There she is… She’s Miss how-you-have-to-look-to-be-acceptable…

  
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  This post might seem a touch self-contradictory at best and outright hypocritical at worst… it’s probably a bit of both in reality. Yesterday I saluted a friend for an outstanding blog post on the ills (well, one specific ill, to be fair) of beauty pageants. Today I was called on the carpet by an old friend for ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Wisconsins leather community finds brotherhood and kink at International Mr. Leather 2013."

  
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  It took me way too long to figure out whether this Isthmus article was about an actual beauty pageant or a fictional theater piece about a pageant — like "Smile" or "Miss Firecracker" or "Little Miss Sunshine." It drives me crazy — this journalism style of withholding the who-what-when so we can ease into the ...
  2 weeks ago

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