Tons of hot girls and they're all married. Typical.

Nice try, Kate, but you didn't quite achieve liftoff into self-parody. As stupid beauty pageants will no doubt continue to proliferate, you will have many more opportunities to perfect your approach.

Will that set that ol' FOM a few notches back?

Lilies of the Field or Exclusive Sexuality. Watch out, girls. If he's a Jealous G-d this week you could be in trouble.

At least no one will be blowing the judges.

The Catholic Church should really do a beauty pageant with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. That ought to ruffle some feathers.

I don't find a beauty pageant in itself objectifying--not more than, say, a race is objectifying by forcing us to look at people as mere racing machines. The fact that nuns are doing it may actually help open up the church a little bit--the very organizer says that beauty is a gift from god and shouldn't be hidden. Who knows? After a few of these, maybe Catholicism will breathe some more fresh air. They certainly could use some. (I was also raised as a Catholic, by the way.)

So, all in all: not a bad idea. I hope it works.

Aren't nuns, like any other Catholic clergy, supposed to put aside all worldly sentiments, or at least try to? Isn't vanity a sin? Isn't pride a cardinal sin, and possibly the root of all the others? Why on earth would someone even suggest to these women, who adopt the names of saints and commit themselves to a life of devotion and service, that they should compete against each other on the basis of appearance? The inappropriateness of this just stuns me.

Actually, the preceding post asks a good question: aren't nuns supposed to give up earthly needs and simply dedicate themselves to a spiritual life? How does beauty fit the picture?

I have to agree: in terms of Catholic tradition, a beauty pageant goes against what a nun in principle should be trying to do. It is contradictory.

Yet I hope to be able to welcome it as a possible sign that the Catholic church might become more worldly. That it might go in the direction of a better unification of the material/physical and the spiritual, not as antagonic principles in perpetual fight with each other but as two expressions of the same underlying depth. Who knows? One may always hope.

Tales of the Leather Nun

1973

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You will BELIEVE!

> What's black and white and objectified all over?

Why, whatever the FOC (feminist outrage country) deems it to be.

> pageants that purport to "celebrate" a category of women traditionally marginalized by the Western beauty standard

Like feminists who not only repeatedly put Mother Teresa on the cover of Cosmopolitan, but view men as wallets/protectors/disposable builders?

> women with disabilities.

Note the HUGE number of Victoria's Secret ads spotlighting WOWs (women of wheelchairs) and WLs (wide-loads).

> the needle on the old FOM went boi-oi-oing! when I read about ... a beauty pageant for nuns

You mean the group that feminists regularly honor for having "different voices" per sexuality and abortion?

>I'm sure the sisters who have given decades of service to the church but aren't prime candidates for your objectification

Should priests emulate feminists (who view nuns as "nones") and treat sisters like shite for not worshipping the idols of Abortion, Oogly-Moodly Fembotulism, etc.?

Didn't feminist bovines star in that movie, "The Sound of Moo-sick"?

googled Tales of the Leather Nun

haven't stopped giggling since- Thank you!!

Like Hyblaean, I've also googled Tales of the Leather Nun and had quite a laugh.

Do you sell it? I'd buy!

This nun beauty pageant thing is the kind of moronic, demented, sideshow type of story that gets tacked on to the end of the local TV news after the roller-skating poodle footage and the piece about the pet snake that swallowed a cell phone.

I mean, you're really outraged about something this freaking stupid and inconsequential, put together by some wacko priest? Maybe your FOM needs to be recalibrated.