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Hey!!! Were you ever in a pageant?

qualitygal — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:15:29 GMT

I don't recall this ever being on the board before?

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Tinkrbl44 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:30:13 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
I don't recall this ever being on the board before?

No, I don't think this has been discussed. Never thought this was a healthy way to raise young girls. The word pageant immediately brings to mind Jon Benet Ramsey and how over-sexualized they made her. NOT a good thing, IMO.

Of course, it's nothing new that women are judged primarily on their looks, and everything else was secondary.

Many years ago, pageants were more common because there weren't as many career options open to women. Nevertheless, I couldn't see the advantage of campaigning to be Miss Garlic Festival, in hopes that one day you might qualify for the "Miss Whatever" pageant. Years later, it was a big deal to be a "former Miss America".

JMO, of course, but I think the promoters were the only ones who benefitted from these old fashioned shows. I'm glad most of them have gone away.

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Desertdi — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:32:51 GMT

No.....I was chubby and had a unibrow.....

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SilleeMee — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:40:59 GMT

Never been in any pageant.

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deepwaterdotter — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:41:03 GMT

When I was young, I entered my dog in a neighborhood pet pageant. He won a ribbon for "Longest Ears", he was a dachshund/beagle mix. It was arranged by our parents as a summer vacation activity. Haven't thought about that for decades.

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Trinity11 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:46:25 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
I don't recall this ever being on the board before?

@qualitygal It has been discussed and it was removed. This was before the board changed to a new platform.

Pageants do not build self esteem. The pressure can be unbearable leaving a person with life long issues with never measuring up to the impossible standards of beauty set forth. Obsession with weight for one thing. My mother was a stage mom who pushed me into modeling and pageants at the age of 12. At 5'8 I was told to lose ten pounds when I weighed a healthy 120. This is standard behavior when a woman has to rely on her appearance to win a pageant or model.

It's a nasty business and I am glad pageants aren't glorified the way they were when I was young....

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Porcelain — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:46:54 GMT

No, but I performed in a few ballets as a child. Nothing huge. And I had to play a boy because I had a short haircut! After every performance I put big ribbon barettes in my hair to keep people from calling me "young man" when they complimented me backstage. I loved having my moment on stage, though.

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CANDLEQUEEN — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:55:38 GMT

Not pageants, but my younger sister and I went to john Robert Powers Modeling School! It was fun and we didn't take it too seriously! One day we had bring a friend, and I had this gorgeous tall blonde friend that ended up being chosen as a hair model. It was fun!

My sister and I were never really that interested in being models, it was just something fun and interesting to do! Most of the girls in our class would have never made it in the "real modeling world" anyways.....

My friend that was chosen as the Hair Model had beautiful blonde hair like Farrah Fawcett, and she ended up doing some hair shows and having fun with it while it lasted!

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SoCal Bred — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:56:57 GMT

@Desertdi .....your post made me chuckle, thanks for the laugh!

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Mersha — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:03:24 GMT

No!!!!!!

I remember in my very early teens my mother thought she was doing a great thing by enrolling me in Sears School for Young Charmers. I am not quite sure what in the world she was thinking.

In any event, I think I flunked out big time.

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beckyb1012 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:04:27 GMT

Not a pagent/pagent, but the closest thing for me similar was my Senior year of high school being chose one of the Senior Beauties. I graduated with a class of 604 students and 10 were chosen so it was flattering. But at the assembly that night being presented under all those lights was kind of weird.

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nana59 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:13:16 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
No.....I was chubby and had a unibrow.....

ME, TOO!!!

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proudlyfromNJ — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:18:12 GMT

@CANDLEQUEEN wrote:
Not pageants, but my younger sister and I went to john Robert Powers Modeling School! It was fun and we didn't take it too seriously! One day we had bring a friend, and I had this gorgeous tall blonde friend that ended up being chosen as a hair model. It was fun!

My sister and I were never really that interested in being models, it was just something fun and interesting to do! Most of the girls in our class would have never made it in the "real modeling world" anyways.....

My friend that was chosen as the Hair Model had beautiful blonde hair like Farrah Fawcett, and she ended up doing some hair shows and having fun with it while it lasted!

@CANDLEQUEEN I also went to John Robert Powers.

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Carmie — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:29:31 GMT

No, I am not pageant material. I never wore makeup and always wore a simple hairstyle.

I did pose in a bikini and high heels and stand next to a sports car during the car show two years in a row. They are always held during the winter time and it can get pretty cold.

There are overhead doors that are opened often for new cars to come and go. I had goose flesh the whole time. I got paid $50 a night for three nights. That was big money back in the 70's.

No model agents saw me and signed me up for anything and the money is long gone.

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Love my grandkids — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:48:59 GMT

@qualitygal NO and I think they are just terrible when they involve any minor children who cannot make the choice for themselves. It's the parents who push the kids into this stuff, I am convinced.

If adults want to do this, okay. I'm not a big fan but adults can make that choice.

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beach-mom — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:49:59 GMT

I was on the Homecoming Court in college. I'm not sure who nominated me. Once I was, I had to fill out a paper with my activities, goals, etc. They selected 25, and we had to be interviewed by student and faculty judges. They selected one representative from each class and the Queen from the 25. I was chosen to represent the junior class, and I found out later I came in 3rd overall!

I was introduced during halftime and rode a float in the parade. I got a huge trophy engraved with my name. We threw it away when we broke up Mom's house after she died.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:45:46 GMT

@qualitygal What kind of pageant? There are Christmas Pageants, Easter Pageants, Medieval Pageants, May Day Pageants, etc., etc. You need to be more specific.

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Pook — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:54:23 GMT

No I wasn't but one of my best friends all through school was in so many and won a lot. I would usually go with her and her family to them and I would sit by one of her brothers and laugh at his funny comments about the pagents. I thought they were rather silly. He would say "oh no she is doing that dead bird ballet dance again!" I did like watching the talent part though.

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Tinkrbl44 — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:32:58 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@qualitygal What kind of pageant? There are Christmas Pageants, Easter Pageants, Medieval Pageants, May Day Pageants, etc., etc. You need to be more specific.

@Kachina624

Good point. I automatically assumed she meant beauty pageants.

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GenXmuse — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 21:35:58 GMT

No pageants, but I've done some modeling.