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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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  • Thursday, August 30, 2007 01:00 PM

    ousteroune, exactly!

    ousteroune,

    Thanks for the pointed and cogent analysis of why the elephant in the room here is clearly misogyny. People keep coming up with excuses for all the other things that might be the source of laughter at Miss Teen South Carolina's blunder. But those arguments just have to ignore the vast vast majority of the actual explicit comments (both written and in video responses) out there on the internet.

    I am puzzled why none of the several comments here that make this point eloquently are not marked as Editor's Choices. This obvious point of view seems to be entirely excluded from th Editor's Choice comments.

    —Anonymous

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