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Lisa B
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Date Posted: 11:33:43 07/09/10 Fri
In reply to:
Christi
's message, "I have a wealth of experience in this exact topic relating to a delegate who tried unsuccessfully to enter a local pageant as a single mom. Click in (stupid character limits lol)" on 14:44:50 07/06/10 Tue
Well Christi, as someone who has a wealth of experience in this topic, I appreciate your reply! However, you answered my question in terms of a national competition, what about local town pageants and/or provincial pageants that don’t have the titleholder spending time away from home (especially local pageants)
In addition, I find your time line of 2 weeks for a pageant a little extraordinary… most pageants take place over the weekend, and yes a few national pageants take place over a week, I have yet to see a pageant that runs for 2 weeks.
In regards to your comment “How could you be expected to go on tour for weeks possibly months at a time and leave your child behind? You certainly couldn’t bring it with you” I’m sure there isn’t a woman out there that appreciates their child being referred to as “IT” secondly and much more importantly, there are thousands of Canadian women fighting for our country as serving members of the Canadian Forces. Many of these women are also mothers, and they are more than capable than going on what one may call a REAL TOUR that can consist of months to years as oppose to the weeks that you referred to as a “Pageant Tour” If these women/mothers who are over in Afghanistan and other dangerous areas of the world fighting for the remainder of us living in Canada are also capable of having a family, then I am certain that a simple pageant titleholder whose “tours”. (and I use that word very loosely) consist of judging pie eating contests, and making guest appearance at charity events then I am fairly confident that a single mother would be able to fill the job.
As for your concern about a pageant presenting an unwed mother as a role model to young girls across the country, I am confident in saying that the majority (not all of course) of unwed mothers are better role models than those pageant contestants can ever being dream of being. Consider this Christi, When asked who their biggest role model is, most pageant contestants will answer their mother for various reasons, so who are you as a pageant director to say that an unwed mother isn’t a role model, especially one that is fully capable of holding down a fulltime job, raising a family, being a volunteer in their community all while wanting to compete in a pageant. I stand by my earlier comment about these people being the role models that a young girl needs, or would you recommend pageants continue to allow contestants to appear in certain television ads promoting certain activities (if you catch my drift) like I said they may be single unwedded mothers, but some are definitely worthy of holding a pageant title and in some cases much more deserving… why not give them a chance to prove it.
Times are changing, and so will the rules. What ever happened to EQUAL RIGHTS!!!!
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