I'm Miss World, somebody kill me

[sabotabby]

It is patently unfair that I should have to know about the Miss Universe pageant, but apparently even in my lefty feminist bubble, it managed to hit my radar right now.

And yes, it's low-hanging fruit, but I'm going to laugh at the costumes.

My second-favourite is Chile:



Miss Haiti and Miss Japan managed to not dress up like earthquakes, and Miss Colombia is not dressed as a very stylish, very sexy member of the FARC, but Miss Chile totally kept it classy and dressed up like a miner.

I bet Miss Romania dressed up as, like, a vampire or something:



Wait, seriously?

But the most awful, over-the-top, offensive outfit belongs to my own Home On Native Land. Check out Miss Canada:



What the bleeding fuck, Canada? Why don't you just dress up in blackface or something? If I thought anyone watched this other than ohnotheydidnt I would be horribly embarrassed about my country, but fortunately I'm pretty sure pageants are irrelevant and no one watches them. Still. This is a thing in the world, and I feel gross that it even exists.

Comments

[curgoth]

I hereby declare that Not A Thing. It didn't happen. So there.

[sabotabby]

Okay, but I'm going to steal Romania's cape first.

[night--watch.livejournal.com]

I like that approach.

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

I would find this funnier were it not so close to most (white) people's attitude to actual racism/cluelessness.

[mad_maudlin]

Is it bad that I like the color the scheme of Miss Chile's outfit? Not into bubble hems or cowboy boots, though.

When you started describing Miss Canada, I thought, "Oh, god, is dressed as a sexy seal clubber carrying a plush baby seal?" ....and then I scrolled down, and it was worse.

[sabotabby]

I dig bubble hems and cowboy boots, but not in combination. Cowboy boots shouldn't have stiletto heels, though. It's not a bad colour scheme.

Though that outfit has nothing on Tanzania. Tanzania's was sweet.

Actually, if it were a seal clubber costume, I would probably find it hilarious. Now I'm inspired for a Halloween costume.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Well, the miners were all saved, weren't they? So the outfit is celebratory.

[sabotabby]

I hate capitalism.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I googled, and the national costumes are amazing, in a "you wore that in public?" way.

At least Miss Tanzania got to be some kind of cyborg gladiator from the glory days of NeoRome 3000.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Traditional African Cyber-Murderball.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

I love how Miss Serbia looks like she just came in her yoga clothes.

[sabotabby]

I'll hand it to her. Other than the heels, that looks like a decently functional outfit. I personally would never wear white pants, but to each her own.

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

oh my god, this is HILARIOUS

[sabotabby]

I couldn't stop looking. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was a child, watching he Miss America paegents and getting confused. I understood that it was supposed to be a beauty contest, and it was to decide who the most beautiful woman was, but I didn't think the women were all that pretty. They didn't even look like real women to me.

[sabotabby]

They're real women in the sense that Lenin's body in his mausoleum is a real dead body. I'm perfectly willing to accept that there's some actual corpse of Lenin left under a thick layer of wax and preservatives, but that's not the bit that you're looking at.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

Did Miss U.S.A. dress as accelerating capitulation to extreme conservatism? I can't think what other catastrophe we've had of late, keinahora. I don't know how you dress as a largely underwhelming hurricane.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I guess she could dress as 9/11 but that's so ten years ago.

[twiin.livejournal.com]

oh good.

[sabotabby]

Shared joy is multiplied, shared pain is lessened.

This. This is not the Irish national costume.

[fluffworld.livejournal.com]

Would they wear it in Waterford?
Can I a get a feck no?

[lienne.livejournal.com]

why... why is that woman dressed as a beaded curtain?

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Native Appropriations covered this. Apart from 'oh, god, she...she didn't, did she?', there are two main things:

- Plains-style feather headdress used 'to honour the Haida people' AGH. Could you not just dress as a giant salmon?

- Why not wear a dress by a Native designer who would incorporate some traditional themes in a voguish kinda way? There are some pretty examples on the blogpost linked to above.

[sabotabby]

I appreciated that post.

I would have appreciated it more if Miss Canada had dressed as a giant salmon.

[northbard.livejournal.com]

rp'd. Bleah.

[sabotabby]

Bleah is about right.

[cupric-acetate.livejournal.com]

Somehow, despite being you, you managed to be the hole in my my lefty feminist bubble.

[sabotabby]

It is because I am part lefty feminist but also part THE HORRORS OF THE INTERNET, LET ME SHOW YOU THEM. It's maybe 75% to 25%

[jackspryte.livejournal.com]

Holy fUCK!!!!!!

These are so unbelieveable horrid.

Canada for shame.

[sabotabby]

I'd feel shame, but I'd rather blame Harper for this somehow.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Donald Trump owns this.

[sabotabby]

Of course he does. He's fucking evil as shit.

Re: sort of OT

[sabotabby]

LOL WUT

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

There is no America disgracing in this post. Let me fix that:

[sabotabby]

Thanks!