Double standards?
Happy for these girls to take part in exploitational, outdated pageants but against them showing off their wares elsewhere? Hypocrisy gone nuts.
The reign of this year's Miss Brittany, Eugénie Journée, was only marginally longer than that of Prince Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, after the 23-year-old was stripped of her title as a result of posting rule-busting "nude" photos of herself on Facebook. Ms Journée, a law student at the University of Rennes, was crowned …
I'm not sure to be honest. I mean; surely those girls would have been told what they can and cannot do when entering such a competition. You may not like the rules, and I have admit that it seems a bit exaggerated, but fact of the matter is that the participants knew what they got themselves into up front.
So if you then participate, win and break the rules you agreed on then I can understand that the organization takes action, even if it might not be a popular decision.
Which is the only part I'm a bit confused about: whether she posted those pictures before or after winning. If it was before then the judges have done a horribly lousy job and are taking it out on the wrong person, but if it was the other way around...
"....surely those girls would have been told what they can and cannot do when entering such a competition...." OK, develop that thought for a moment - she must have known the rules but still posed semi-naked - why? The likely answer - had you even heard there was a Miss Brittany, let alone heard her name or seen her image, before this article or any of the other press on the matter? I would say it has probably forwarded her career quite substantially.
Now here is a perfect target for the "outrage" of the feminists except.... they will never do anything about the way this was handled.
If women can pose topless in Times Square in NYC and considerable nudity is on every other show, commercial and advertisement across Europe; don't you think that it's about time that disqualifying beauty pageant contestants for having published "nude" pics is rather disingenuous?
You mean the reports that women like men that are contently chubby rather than sted heads who only love protein? Unless there was another similar recent report I missed?
"You mean the reports that women like men that are contently chubby rather than sted heads who only love protein?"
that report was as believable as the one that beardies are more attractive to women.......
next we'll get a report that women are attracted to real ale drinkers with beer guts
In ye olden days breasts like that were called "bee-stings", nowadays in Brittany more likely "Asian Hornet stings" although this would possibly be fatal. Disclaimer: I think that she is attractive regardless of breast size. This comment brought to you courtesy of a bottle of OVD rum given to me the other day. I know it's early but it's been grey, rainy and gale force winds all day. Need more alcohol related icons :)
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"....US fundamentalists...." Of course, Arnaut's one-track mind is overloaded at the task of having to provide any sort of insight into anything that doesn't play to his childish anti-Yank sentiments. From his uneducated viewpoint only "Merkins" could possibly be unsupportive of women's rights. Of course, that's because he is too thick to know anything about European history. As an example, he doesn't know that the contraceptive pill was first developed and licensed in the US-of-A in the Sixties, that being the single scientific development that had the greatest benefit to women (as stated by countless feminists). Of course, many European countries banned the import of the pill for years due to Catholicism, treating those that brought it into their countries as harshly as heroin smugglers. More homework for Clueless!
Matt, she's french, in France crowned miss Brittany. This is the same France that it was culturally ok to give 50 shades of Grey a 12 rating while the rest of the world went into hysteria overdrive and made it a 18 rating or higher.
I can't come up with any reasoning for this to happen apart from the American organizers imposing prudish values on the compettition, without needing to even hint at desending into anti american bashery.
"....50 shades of Grey...." You obviously missed that the film was produced and distributed by Universal, an American company.
"....I can't come up with any reasoning for this to happen apart from the American organizers imposing prudish values on the compettition...." Really? That is solely due to a lack of actual intelligent thought on your part. For instance, please do explain how the Yanks had any control over the British Board of Film Classifications that set the British release's rating, or over any of the other European film rating agencies?
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Funny thing Arnaut, all lawyers and so called "journalists" are considered lower than used car salesmen on the integrity and honesty scale, no matter which country they are from.
The least popular category is "politician" a word that has literally become synonymous with liar.