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Dearborn's Miss Michigan wins Miss USA pageant

Can't that be the talent portion?

;)

This last part of the article goes with that real well:

"It would be foolish to consider anyone other than Rima to represent the USA," radio host Mojo said. "The photos taken from our Web site are no more provocative than those on the Miss USA Web site."
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Meh unless there are photos of her like topless or doing something nasty with the pole then let her keep the crown. I mean hell she is probably wearing more clothes dancing on the pole than she did during the pageant.

Agreed. It's ridiculous how uptight pageant folks can be about this stuff, especially considering that most women in pageants have done stuff like this. I have a friend who is a perennial contender in various pageants and she's constantly getting asked to do photo shoots that are a bit risque. Many of the other girls end up doing them and risk getting disqualified from the entire scene.
 
Agreed. It's ridiculous how uptight pageant folks can be about this stuff, especially considering that most women in pageants have done stuff like this. I have a friend who is a perennial contender in various pageants and she's constantly getting asked to do photo shoots that are a bit risque. Many of the other girls end up doing them and risk getting disqualified from the entire scene.

But I'm assuming they get payed well to do the Risque stuff right?
 
But I'm assuming they get payed well to do the Risque stuff right?

Usually, though too often it's "let me take these pictures and then I'll see what we can do" type things
 
I didn't see the competition, so I can't judge whether or not she deserved to win, but I have a few observations based on what I have read about this.

1. She is absolutely beautiful. I don't care what her heritage it or her religion. She is a beautiful young lady. That is something that you can't take away from her.

2. The fact that she is Lebenese-American is not a big deal to me at all. I am from a state where the best known political family is Lebanese-American. The elder Sununu was former governor and Chief of Staff for President George H.W. Bush while the younger Sununu was a U.S. Senator and before that a Member of Congress.

3. There was her statement, as reported in the media, about birth control. On the one hand, I absolutely agree with where she was going with it. However, remember Carrie Prejean's stance for morality? The left went ballistic over her statements. Is it that the left believes that it is ok to go after a blonde beauty over a raven-haired Arab beauty (frankly, the later is more my type)?

4. In the statement in point 3, she referred to birth control as a "controlled substance?" Huh? Does she have any idea what a controlled substance is?

5. She clearly stumbled over her gown while walking. I don't know in what context this was, but it if was during competition, surely she should have been docked points for that.

Still, on the whole, I wish her well. I can see why the Dearborn Arab-American community is proud of her -- they should be. She seems confident and is extremely beautiful. I hope she does not face negative ramifications from extreme elements for pursuing her American dream.
 
Agreed. It's ridiculous how uptight pageant folks can be about this stuff, especially considering that most women in pageants have done stuff like this. I have a friend who is a perennial contender in various pageants and she's constantly getting asked to do photo shoots that are a bit risque. Many of the other girls end up doing them and risk getting disqualified from the entire scene.

Maybe they should just not do that crap especially if they're competing in pageants. If you were going to police academy, would you smoke crack on your day off? Like it or not, virtuous living is a hallmark of pageant standards.

I'm by no means a pageant girl (see virtuous standards lol), but out of a personal sense of deceny (I said personal, not everyone's code) I turned down several offers to pose nude in college. The money would have been great, but my pride wasn't for sale.

I'm just responding to your point. The clothed pole dancing doesn't bother me. However, young women need to realize they can be beautiful and sexy without lowering themselves to act out like sluts in public.
 
Maybe they should just not do that crap especially if they're competing in pageants. If you were going to police academy, would you smoke crack on your day off? Like it or not, virtuous living is a hallmark of pageant standards.

I'm by no means a pageant girl (see virtuous standards lol), but out of a personal sense of deceny (I said personal, not everyone's code) I turned down several offers to pose nude in college. The money would have been great, but my pride wasn't for sale.

I'm just responding to your point. The clothed pole dancing doesn't bother me. However, young women need to realize they can be beautiful and sexy without lowering themselves to act out like sluts in public.

To clarify, it's not posing nude or anything close to that. I mean things that a prudish person wouldn't want a 14 year old to look at, but nothing that you wouldn't see in a trendy fashion mag.
 
To clarify, it's not posing nude or anything close to that. I mean things that a prudish person wouldn't want a 14 year old to look at, but nothing that you wouldn't see in a trendy fashion mag.

From what I saw, she didn't do anything worse that I have seen videos of Miley Cyrus (aka hannah montana) doing...
 
Miley Cyrus is trash.

Miley Cyrus is 17 years old.
She's a performer, who has been working hard nearly all her life.
Whether or not one thinks she's talented or likes her type of music is a matter of personal opinion.
What makes you think it's appropriate to call her "trash"?
Why is she "trash"? Because she's got a rich daddy?
What has she ever done to deserve to be called that? :confused:
 
Miley Cyrus is 17 years old.
She's a performer, who has been working hard nearly all her life.
Whether or not one thinks she's talented or likes her type of music is a matter of personal opinion.
What makes you think it's appropriate to call her "trash"?
Why is she "trash"? Because she's got a rich daddy?
What has she ever done to deserve to be called that? :confused:

There is a thread on Topix "I hate Miley Cyrus" It has about 25,000 posts on it saying how much they hate Miley Cyrus.

Most of the posters are very young but it has some of the grossest insults I have ever heard. Most of them think she is a slut.
 
There is a thread on Topix "I hate Miley Cyrus" It has about 25,000 posts on it saying how much they hate Miley Cyrus.

Most of the posters are very young but it has some of the grossest insults I have ever heard. Most of them think she is a slut.

They think she's a slut? :confused:
Is this based on anything, or are they just pulling it out of their asses?
She's a Disney creation, and she's been slaving away all her life.
She and her dad seem very close.
I doubt she's ever had much unsupervised time to be a slut, little money-machine that she is.
I mean, she's a franchise.
Many powerful people have multi-million dollar fortunes riding on this teenage girl and her image.
It's rather unrealistic to imagine they allow her much freedom or control over it, wouldn't you think?
 
I'm not trying to go after anybody or put anybody on the spot.
I just seriously want to know why people would think this.

I've mentioned before that it bothers me the way Hollywood- or the media, or our society, or some combination- eats up young celebrities these days; especially female ones.
It seems they only exist anymore so we can have the pleasure of watching them self-destruct.

It's not because they're "sluttier".
They were actually far sluttier in the 70s and 80s.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Brooke Shields, Mariel Hemmingway: all of them were doing fully nude sex scenes while still minors (or, in the case of Shields, before she was even pubescent. Ever seen "Pretty Baby"?).
Yet they're all basically okay.
They were at the time, and they still are.

Why do we want to burn up adolescent celebrities for entertainment these days?
Why do they nearly all crash and burn?

I suspect it's a matter of drugs.
This is just a theory, but I think they start them on prescriptions very young.
"Too tired to keep up with your grueling 12 hour a day performance schedule? Here's a prescription for Adderall. Adderall keeping you awake? Here's a prescription sedative. Etc."


I mean, they're probably hooked on all that crap by the time they're ten or eleven, all these Disney-made stars.
There's so much money invested in them, so much riding on them.
They have to be made to keep going, one way or the other.

That's my theory.
It's nothing to do with "sluttiness" or sexual immorality.
The only immorality is that of mega-corporations making fortunes off these kids, and killing them- or at the very least destroying them- in the process.
 
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They think she's a slut? :confused:
Is this based on anything, or are they just pulling it out of their asses?
She's a Disney creation, and she's been slaving away all her life.
She and her dad seem very close.
I doubt she's ever had much unsupervised time to be a slut, little money-machine that she is.
I mean, she's a franchise.
Many powerful people have multi-million dollar fortunes riding on this teenage girl and her image.
It's rather unrealistic to imagine they allow her much freedom or control over it, wouldn't you think?

A lot of them talk about her slutty pole dancing. She is a disney creation. It's not like she made it the hard way.

Another example of a teenage slut was Tanya Tucker when she arrived on the Country and Western scene.

It doesn't matter to me. I like my women a little on the trashy side.:)
 
She is a disney creation. It's not like she made it the hard way.

I don't think that's true. I doubt any of us can even imagine.
She's barely even old enough to work. If she were a *real* kid, instead of a celebrity, child labor laws would protect her by preventing her from working too many hours a day at McDonald's or The Gap.
Instead, since she was prepubescent, she's been touring incessantly, starring in her own sitcom, making movies, and putting out albums.


A lot of them talk about her slutty pole dancing.

Cry me a river.
I'm so sure she even gets a choice. :roll:
Her handlers choreograph her dance routines, choose her costumes, and tell her what to say during interviews, on the rare occasions they allow her to open her mouth at all.
Miley the Multimillion Dollar Child Star is over. The well has run dry; the train has left the station, the goose has laid its last golden egg (but that's okay, because Disney's got Selena Gomez or some other 12-year-old ready to step in and take her place without missing a beat).
They're just trying to see if they can possibly milk a few more bucks out of her before they put her out to pasture... or drag her off behind the barn and shoot her.
Figuratively speaking, of course, haha. Although I'm sure they wish they could.
 
Miley Cyrus is 17 years old.
She's a performer, who has been working hard nearly all her life.
Whether or not one thinks she's talented or likes her type of music is a matter of personal opinion.
What makes you think it's appropriate to call her "trash"?
Why is she "trash"? Because she's got a rich daddy?
What has she ever done to deserve to be called that? :confused:

None of the above. She's a mouthy little twit who leaks personal & suggestive photos of herself for attention (which she doesn't need). Did you see the cell phone pics of Miley and her friends making fun of the Asian guy?

I don't care about her, so I surely do not want to see "leaked" photos of her in her underpants. None of the young starlets of those bygone days felt the need to flash their crotches at the photogs. She's taking an amazing opportunity and trashing it. I'm sure there are thousands of young girls who would handle that fortuity with a little more appreciation. Miley Cyrus just trashes what she has.
 
alotta hatin in this thread
 
I now await the honor killing for being in the swimsuit competition. LOL. :mrgreen:

Seriously, though, this shows that America frequently IS a place where you can be what you want to be, no matter where else you came from. :2usflag:
Not only that, but she is a fox too.

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And I especially liked her in the talent contest, where she showed us how to.... :bomb: j/k.
Congratulations, Miss America.

Article is here.
wow....she's beautiful.
 
Not the same thing.

Miss USA is part of the Miss Universe pageant. I don't think there's a "talent" component, so if they say she's "well rounded" it means she has curves in all the right places.
no talent component? what?
 
A lot of them talk about her slutty pole dancing. She is a disney creation. It's not like she made it the hard way.

Another example of a teenage slut was Tanya Tucker when she arrived on the Country and Western scene.

It doesn't matter to me. I like my women a little on the trashy side.:)

When they wear their clothes too tight and their hair is dyed?

:D
 
I'm not trying to go after anybody or put anybody on the spot.
I just seriously want to know why people would think this.

I've mentioned before that it bothers me the way Hollywood- or the media, or our society, or some combination- eats up young celebrities these days; especially female ones.
It seems they only exist anymore so we can have the pleasure of watching them self-destruct.

It's not because they're "sluttier".
They were actually far sluttier in the 70s and 80s.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Brooke Shields, Mariel Hemmingway: all of them were doing fully nude sex scenes while still minors (or, in the case of Shields, before she was even pubescent. Ever seen "Pretty Baby"?).
Yet they're all basically okay.
They were at the time, and they still are.

Why do we want to burn up adolescent celebrities for entertainment these days?
Why do they nearly all crash and burn?

I suspect it's a matter of drugs.
This is just a theory, but I think they start them on prescriptions very young.
"Too tired to keep up with your grueling 12 hour a day performance schedule? Here's a prescription for Adderall. Adderall keeping you awake? Here's a prescription sedative. Etc."


I mean, they're probably hooked on all that crap by the time they're ten or eleven, all these Disney-made stars.
There's so much money invested in them, so much riding on them.
They have to be made to keep going, one way or the other.

That's my theory.
It's nothing to do with "sluttiness" or sexual immorality.
The only immorality is that of mega-corporations making fortunes off these kids, and killing them- or at the very least destroying them- in the process.
you can't blame the corporations, you HAVE to blame the parents, if they are around.
 
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