Word: pageants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Both Pepper and Liebman said that a strong relationship with Harvard students has always been a key to their success on Mt. Auburn Street. Last Friday, The Wrap donated to IMPACT 100 wraps to feed students attending the Miss Harvard pageant...
...seems that the main objection Emma S. MacKinnon ’05 has to the Miss Harvard pageant is that IMPACT, the group sponsoring the show, has “politically correct ambitions”—we haven’t done enough to “challenge the beauty pageant regime” (Opinion, “Miss What?” March 13). As the president of IMPACT, I don’t see this as a problem—IMPACT is, by virtue of our mission statement, an apolitical organization...
...promoting literacy and education in places where children wouldn’t normally have access to these simple resources. Being apolitial, however, does limit us. It means that we’ll take great pains to not objectify women, but also not to slam the “beauty pageant regime”—this is neither our focus nor our place...
...Impact does not know how to confront these objections. It hides from them, with words like “optional” and “alternative,” which do absolutely nothing to challenge the beauty pageant regime. Had it more courage, Impact would make the absurdity of beauty pageants the center of the show. To allow men to compete, and to encourage them to do so in drag, is only a start...
Impact ought to confront objections head-on by emphasizing how ridiculous beauty pageants are and by over-doing—and, indeed, celebrating—the drag. After all, women in a standard beauty pageant are themselves in a kind of drag. Beneath makeup, stuffing and hairspray, how much of the person on stage really remains...