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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 …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Double standards?

    Happy for these girls to take part in exploitational, outdated pageants but against them showing off their wares elsewhere? Hypocrisy gone nuts.

    1. hplasm
      Happy

      Re: Double standards?

      "Only we, ze judges, may see ze big boobies!"

      1. Archie Woodnuts

        Re: Double standards?

        But what of the Fallen Madonna?

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Double standards?

      Deeply perverse hypocrisy indeed and most unfrench. It's almost as if there was some sort of Yank lurking behind the scenes hypocriting it up.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Double standards?

      No, it is not DOUBLE standard. It is European standard vs American standard. Miss World is ruled by the latter.

      She was pictured somewhere topless. That is not really considered nude on most of the continent.

      In other news: Tits baaaaaaaaaaaad, Guns gooooooooooood.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Double standards?

        "In other news: Tits baaaaaaaaaaaad, Guns gooooooooooood."

        If some girl wants to point her tits at me instead of her gun, I'm all for it!

        1. Graham Marsden
          Alert

          @AC - Re: Double standards?

          > If some girl wants to point her tits at me instead of her gun, I'm all for it!

          Might I remind you of certain women in the Austin Powers films...

        2. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Double standards?

          "In other news: Tits baaaaaaaaaaaad, Guns gooooooooooood."

          Miss England 2009 seemed to make the most of both...

          1. Voland's right hand Silver badge

            Re: Double standards?

            Miss England 2009

            Compared to most gun advocates she probably knows how to use a gun, not just talk about how brave it makes you.

            1. Anonymous Coward
              Anonymous Coward

              Re: Double standards?

              She also first became known by stopping a gunman with a quick punch.

              Though I was referring to her use of a rifle in the contest itself.

          2. I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects

            Re: Double standards?

            I always wondered why we are not Great Bitagony in Fronche. It was because by the time we got there Brittany was wearing the tousie'res.

        3. onefastskater

          Re: Double standards?

          What about machine gun jubblies?

        4. Dillon Pyron

          Re: Double standards?

          "This is my rifle, this is my gun. This one's for fighting, this one's for fun"

          If she's pointing her "gun" at me then I don't think she qualified for "Miss" anything.

      2. Charles Manning

        Re: Double standards?

        There was quite a furore when someone field stripped an AR15 at a local gun show!

    4. Dazed and Confused

      Re: Double standards?

      Because when you enter their contest they own your body.

    5. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Double standards?

      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...

      1. Matt Bryant Silver badge
        Go

        Re: ShelLuserRe: Double standards?

        "....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.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Not normally one to complain about it, but...

    ...doesn't this hold the most tenuous IT angle ever? :-)

    1. g e

      Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

      And..?

    2. Lester Haines (Written by Reg staff) Gold badge

      Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

      IT angle? I see no IT angle whatsoever.

      1. Schnoerkelman

        Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

        There is clearly a t-IT angle visible.

      2. Simon Harris
        Coat

        Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

        Do they still have a swim-wear section in the competition?

        That could be the internet of thongs.

        1. Stoneshop
          Coat

          the internet of thongs

          In which case she should be wearing one of these

          (that's not a grey trenchcoat, why do you ask?)

        2. I Am Spartacus
          Pint

          Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

          @Simon Harris

          You sir, owe me a new keyboard. Mine is covered in coffee.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

      NO its not tenuous at all. Its all about "Social Media" you see.

      (You were distracted by the boobies, weren't you!)

    4. JLV

      Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

      I am not sure I agree.

      El Reg, maybe some more, from a different angle, would help us decide?

    5. Matt Bryant Silver badge
      Facepalm

      Re: AC Re: Not normally one to complain about it, but...

      "....the most tenuous IT angle...." IMHO, the fact there is actually something I want to look at on either Faecesbook or Twatter is truly astounding news!

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I can't believe I'm the first to say...

    PICS!... or it didn't happen

    B-)

    1. BasicChimpTheory

      Re: I can't believe I'm the first to say...

      You can click the blue words, guy.

      (I wouldn't bother, however. Definitely validates the use of the quotes around 'nude'.)

      In other news: organisation that dresses up objectification as a charity is entirely hypocritical.

      Who knew?

    2. ItsNotMe
      WTF?

      Re: I can't believe I'm the first to say...

      Here is a link to the "nude" photo...in which it is impossible to see any nudity.

      And don't worry kids...it IS suitable for work.

      http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2015/10/eugenie-journee-miss-brittany-dethroned-risque-facebook-photo/

  4. Dan Paul

    Perfect Target for the Feminists...

    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?

  5. Fibbles

    But she's wearing clothes...

    I understand that some sections if society view the female nipple as inherently pornographic but they're not even visible in the photo.

    1. MrXavia

      Re: But she's wearing clothes...

      bad eyesight? I can certainly see one... but I do agree, she isn't nude, she is only topless and its a very well done photo (its harder than you think to take a good photo)

  6. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Sacre bloopers

  7. JLV

    That exposure might just get her a Vanessa Williams out of it. She's probably been the most successful Miss America ever, much better for her career than keeping the crown.

  8. M Bargo

    Looks a bit skinny to me. She'll have a difficult time getting any if recent reports are to be believed.

    1. Shades

      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?

      1. x 7

        "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

        1. Bernard M. Orwell
          Pint

          "... women are attracted to real ale drinkers with beer guts."

          Well, who would want a six-pack when you can have a barrel?

  9. Mystic Megabyte
    Pint

    Slightly non-pc

    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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    1. Mark 85

      Re: Metronews website

      The 'Merikins haven't heard about this yet as they ignore the French news. On the other hand, it's boobs... the vote could go either way.

    2. Matt Bryant Silver badge
      FAIL

      Re: Arnaut the Clueless Re: Metronews website

      "....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!

      1. x 7

        Re: Arnaut the Clueless Metronews website

        "only "Merkins" could possibly be unsupportive of women's rights"

        I didn't realise there was a merkin visible in the photo - I couldn't see that far down

      2. phil 27
        FAIL

        Re: Arnaut the Clueless Metronews website

        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.

        1. Matt Bryant Silver badge
          FAIL

          Re: phil 27 Re: Arnaut the Clueless Metronews website

          "....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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  11. FatGerman

    Headline...

    ... should read

    "Woman wins contest nobody gives a fuck about, then breaks rules in attempt to generate career out of it".

    And if anyone thinks I'm being cynical, she's a LAW student - so she's clever, devious, and not to be trusted.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Headline..."she's a LAW student - so she's clever, devious, and not to be trusted."

      The French legal profession, like French journalists, do not have the same universal lack of esteem as US ones.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Headline..."she's a LAW student - so she's clever, devious, and not to be trusted."

        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.

  12. John Savard

    Actual Nudity Present

    Her right nipple, and its associated aureola, are visible, if dimly-lit and at low contrast, in the photograph, and so it isn't simple the very idea of not being fully-clothed that is present. Thus, it's hard to argue that they aren't enforcing their rules in a fair manner, even if it must seem odd in Europe, where it is often entirely acceptable for women not to cover their tops at the beach.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Actual Nudity Present

      " and its associated aureola,"

      Back in the day I actually got mentioned in NFN for pointing out just this error in a linked piece. Briefly, even among the most elevated female celebrities, nipples do not usually have haloes, though they may have areolas.

      My test of these pictures is "would I be upset if it was my daughter in that photo?" The short answer in this case is that I wouldn't be in the slightest, while if she went in for the beauty contest I'd disown her and leave all my money to fund legal attempts to get chimpanzees classed as human, probably by Mrs. Clooney.

    2. JLV

      Re: Actual Nudity Present

      >visible, if dimly-lit

      Been reviewing those pics quite carefully, haven't we? ;-)

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Actual Nudity Present

      "Her right nipple, and its associated aureola, are visible,"

      Eurrrghh! I've just had a trouser crisis. I was visiting this esteemed website for its serious technical discourse and I was met by pornography of the most lascivious kind.

      I leave you now to go and clean myself up.

  13. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Unhappy

    A mystery

    How is it that in every walk of life the prudes somehow get in a position of power and screw it all up for everyone?

    1. Steven Roper

      Re: A mystery

      For the same reason that political-correctness crusaders get into positions of power.

      People who are convinced they know best what's good for everyone else and how everyone should live, are the ones who pursue power in order to be able to realise their vision of shoving their political agendas down everyone else's throats. They push their causes, gather vocal followers, and get themselves elected (or promoted in the private sector) to positions where they can dictate their morals to all from their high horses.

      This is exactly why Douglas Adams rightly pointed out that anyone capable of getting themselves elected President of the Galaxy should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  14. NanoMeter

    The judges prefer "virgin like" girls

    to ogle during the contest.

  15. chivo243 Silver badge
    Facepalm

    what naked?

    A white spot where her chest might be? I've said it before... Get me off this planet, I find it mind bending and I don't like it. It's spinning in the wrong direction!

  16. x 7

    link please

  17. Eddy Ito

    The only tits I see are the leadership of the Miss France organization.

    It's the act of stripping for the camera that's banned.

    How do they know she stripped for the camera? Perhaps that's her normal daily attire or she was getting ready to go to the beach or perhaps she was totally naked and donned jeans for the photo thus doing the opposite of stripping for the camera. I could go on ad nauseam but then I'd sound like a whiny French pageant official.

  18. Ian Joyner Bronze badge

    Immature attitude

    Society has a completely immature attitude to the human body (I won't even call it nudity).

    The more we restrict being able to go natural, the more the pornographers and paedophiles own the body. Those who have a prudish attitude to the body are just encouraging these sick industries. It is natural to delight in the form of the body, but we replace that with disgust, repressing the delight and that turns to deviance.

    Since when was the body unstylish, needing to be covered by board shorts, and when did it become pornographic.

    We need to stop being so childish and be accepting. People might have nothing to show off, but nothing to be ashamed of either.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Immature attitude

      "Society has a completely immature attitude to the human body (I won't even call it nudity)."

      It doesn't really. A section of it does to varying degrees. What you see in many places is that people who want to control other people have discovered that they can do so via politics or religion, and so they do. I suspect too that a lot of them are aware of their own desires, which they are controlling to a degree, and assume that everybody else who sees a nipple/mons/penis will immediately turn into a potential rapist. That perceptive chap Jesus turned it against them by telling a group of them that they wanted to stone the woman taken in adultery but had all wanted to do the same thing themselves. And these controlling people teach other people to share their hangups (including their children.)

      If we didn't have these people, we probably wouldn't have a Miss World contest either.

    2. John Savard

      Re: Immature attitude

      If our society's mores changed, so that all the beaches were nude beaches, this would only address one of the symptoms, not the real problem. The real problem is our attitude towards sex, of which our attitude to nudity is a symptom.

      And I don't really know if there is a 'cure' for that, because sex really is... problematic, if not 'dirty'. Sex produces children. And women do all the gestation and all the breastfeeding by themselves... as well as usually changing more than their share of the diapers, too.

      Women, unlike the females of our mammalian ancestors, don't go into 'heat' on a regular basis. Women may enjoy sex, but unlike men, they don't seem to think they 'need' it, and so things have to be right first. Of course, in general, men are willing to make the effort to meet their demands... but there are enough disinterested women or unsuitable men that a lot of men are left over; and others just had to wait for a certain time of their lives.

      And thus comes prurience, misogyny, and the rest of the mess. A 'cure' would seem to involve either gelding a lot of the men, or brainwashing women into being more generous with their favors than serves their interest: neither is acceptable to those of us who wish to respect the rights of both men and women.

      1. x 7

        Re: Immature attitude

        " Women may enjoy sex, but unlike men, they don't seem to think they 'need' it, "

        Who fed you that one?........you're either ugly or mixing with the wrong type of women

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    All the way to the bottom of the comments....

    and no one said where is the rest of the articles main picture or commented on it.

    Seems the Register is following the censorship of the French......

  20. Stevie

    Bah!

    See? This is what happens when the Safe Harbor rules are turned off.

  21. Potemkine Silver badge

    One of these days

    Facebook will ruin your life.

  22. jonfr

    Twitter accounts suspended

    I did notice that twitter accounts of the former Miss Brittany and the new Miss Brittany are both suspended. Possible that they were fake accounts, but I don't think that is the case. I wonder what is going on.

    Beauty pageant are strange and have even stranger rules. John Oliver covered it here.

    https://youtu.be/oDPCmmZifE8

  23. Brian Allan 1

    She doesn't even appear nude in the picture. Big flap about nothing!

    1. x 7

      flaps??? where?

      I can't see them

  24. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    J'accuse!

    It is a provocation and a lie - there is nothing ambiguous about her at all!

  25. Richard Pennington 1

    Queen for a day

    ... pendant une Journée?

  26. E 2

    It's the crotchless jeans are too obvious, right?

  27. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    A law student who did not read the fine print?

    Hhmmmm....

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