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And while we're on the subject of the pageant, why are we snorting at a stupid answer when we don't bat an eye at the fact that Upton and her pageant sisters are smearing Vaseline on their teeth and parading around in bathing suits and evening gowns, hoping to be judged superior to one another and deemed emblematic of young American womanhood?
People already laugh at pageants. That's a given. There is no particular reason to bring up the details of why pageants are silly wastes of time and insults to women everywhere. Those arguments are background to the fun that people are having at this poor young woman's expense, but they do not need to be retread to understand the joke.
