Beauty pageants are nothing more than a symbol of the objectification of women in a male dominated society. That's it.

Since they days Salome danced the seven veils, men have demanded a show of women who display the wares that satisfy their sexual desires, but only so long as those "wares" come with an understood obesience to the selfish needs and insecure fears of men. Miss America, Miss Teen America, Miss Universe, Miss Galactic Empire, whatever, the winner is the one who's measurements, flirtatious walk and bust size most appeal to the basest of male instincts, and who's pronouncements of world peace, caring for children and background in a degree in special ed are not just merely non-threatening, but appeal to the equally balanced male demand of a supplicantive, supportive, loving, innocent and Mother Mary like person we want to marry after we've shtuped all the whores. Oh and they had better be Madonna, not the singer but the one who so pledged her life to Jesus she never had sex with anyone, unless she could pledge fealty and dying obedience and love to someone she considered every bit as great as Jesus. As in us the one's consorting with whores we would never marry.

Something happened along the way to a world of women who's main role is to produce our prodigy, put food on our table, cover themselves from head to foot when out in public, but dance like Salome for us in bed. Women decided to have fun.

Now there were many dancers in the time of Herod and since then. No one remembers any of the tens of thousands of them except Salome and Mata Hari. Why? Well, they were seductive, but not submissive. They had the power to overcome their male masters and actually influence, even control them. The first is condemned through history as the killer of John the Baptist, the second was shot by, of all people, the French. Who also killed Joan of Arc, so don't be surprised.

That's really nice of the Donald, last great chauvenist pig, declaring he was giving miss USA one more chance. I watched that speech and I swear it looked just like Neville Chaimberlain waving the Munich accord and declaring "Peace in our time." No, women are not Nazis, but they are a group not to be denied certain basic and inalienable rights; which include the right to be as reckless and decadent or as restrained and virtuous as they want to be. Think of the scene where Napoleon rips the the crown from the Pope's hands and places it on its own crown. Miss USA could have, and should have, done just that.

What happened with both Miss USA and Miss Nevada is what has been long in coming since the first declaration of the right of women to be equal to men, from the first burned bra, to the first female to female kiss, or wardrobe malfunction. All steps to equality begin with owning ones one state. While The Donald was struggling and spending to maintain and abusive, sexist, exploitative pageant to the objectification and ultimately denigration of women, the women had other plans and, like history, marched right past him.

The USA pageant and all other pageants from now on will no longer reflect what men want, but what women want. Sex, and its manifestation, will be given or denied in ways the "better" half deems willing to accept or pursue.

In the meantime we can gasp or tsk tsk the so called "poor decisions" of the physically blessed, but we men cannot control it. That is the real message; not that these women are reckless, oversexed, or stupid, but that they are doing what they want to do.

And what are we gonna do about it? Nothing. We can't. And that is a good thing.

Go back about twenty something years. Imagine Miss USA 1979 french kissing Miss teen USA or flashing her breasts. Yeah that would have gone over well. The difference is, it doesn't go over well with The Donald and his ilk, but now the internet is lapping it up. It's a new world and women are allowed to kiss any damn person they want. The pageant is a dinasour and we are the La Brea tarpit. We care more about what these women do in their life than what they did to achieve the crown.

And that is all the world of what we really want in life. Women who could be are equal so we can really start arguing with them.