Comments on: Miss USA Contestants: Is Evolution OK for US Schools?

By: djarm67

djarm67 — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:18:59 +0000

Here’s the complete video of all the responses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay7srP7lOlE

By: joed

joed — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:32:27 +0000

Actually there is a wonderful movie about a beauty pageant and most critical thinkers would probably enjoy the film and the pageant itself.
Alan Arkin and Abigail Breslin star in, Little Miss Sunshine
http://www.fandango.com/littlemisssunshine_95839/movieoverview

By: P Smith

P Smith — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:06:36 +0000

They still have “beauty pageants”? Inner-Ugliness Pageant (IUP) is more like it. Then again, there are so many morons in this world, why shouldn’t I be surprised?

Prejean was likely under the ill-informed impression that watchers of IUPs were like NASCRASH and football fans – mostly rightwing nutbags, or maybe she “thought” that “beautiful people are christards, atheists are ugly”. She was obviously uninformed (surprise, surprise) that there were many pro-gay people involved. Who didn’t know that, with all the hairstylists and dressmakers involved?

By: MacTurk

MacTurk — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:56:22 +0000

Asking beauty pageant contestants for their opinion on science education policy is like…..

Possibly asking US Presidential candidates whether they believe in evolution?

Actually, I think a large number of my brain cells just committed suicide.

Back to the regeneration tank for me!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:37:21 +0000

Poor girls. They already have to do the Madonna/Whore balancing act–parade your booty, be an object, but not a too-sexually-explicit object because that’s naughty–now they have to answer polarizing questions, because ~~it’s a way for the producers to drum up some manufactroversy and get some attention for a silly ritual that’s been losing viewers for years~~ America needs to know what beauty contestants think about evolution.

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:04:42 +0000

Obviously, they should eagerly answer “yes” to both questions.

By: peicurmudgeon

peicurmudgeon — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:43:43 +0000

If they know the questions beforehand, it would give them time to prepare. That would give them a chance to come up with effective non-answers. For example, on the evolution/creation in schools one answer might be “schools should teach students the the most up to date science available while at the same time teaching them to think critically”.

The same kind of answer many politicians give.