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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:15 PM

    -- Mike Gies

    I haven’t read all of the comments, but my own feeling is that these pageants are in the soft-core porn business.-- Mike Gies

    Granted beauty pageants aren't the math club. They emphasize physical beauty primarily.

    But, how does physical beauty equate "soft-core porn" in your feeble brain?

    Can you point to any example of "soft-core porn" as distinguishable from a physical beauty pageants as they openly claim to be?

    Do you see these pageants as erotic?

    —healthyskeptic Read healthyskeptic's other letters

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