Please to note more Canadians win these pageants than anybuddy else :).
While feminists argue that women are ghettoised (or objectified) by such sexist contests, gay guys are clambering to host them. I don't get it; it's a queer kind of equality, I guess?
It's simple: gay guys like to show off, and other gay guys like to watch. Plus, a lot of gay men just LOVE a good pageant. Why that is, is above my pay scale.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I think gay men are more comfortable in their skin that their het counterparts (at least as far my experience goes), I don't think the need to strut one's physical stuff is at the heart of this; and, frankly, I think it's a human characteristic in half the population right around the world. Some peeps are exhibitionists; some aren't.
ReplyDeleteLater, I started wondering why the fembots didn't take the muscle-men shows (think Charles Atlas) to task for objectifying men in the same way.
Conclusion? I think gay men reserve the right to be himbos as much as dames reserve the be be bimbos. IIRC, I attended a gay dames' beauty show in Key West during the year I lived there, in fact. The criteria change; but, the motivations remain the same, I guess.
Ain't my idea of a good thing in which to be involved (since who wants to look at a stick figure?); but, I do like to look at bodies, nekkid, clothed, and all points in between . . . And, so it goes :).
p.s. Forty-five thousand freezing Ontarians lost power for most of Sunday; it even made national-news headlines; and, like yours truly, we all went to sleep under our quilts and comforters to stay warm so we're all up now; and, you watch, a lot of peeps are going to be very bitchy until they get back on their normal sleep skeds :)
ReplyDeletep.p.s. What's your pay scale, Frank? I'm below the poverty line; does that exclude me from ogling a nice eye-melting body (although, please, don't get me wrong, I've never visited a Pr0n website in my life and I never will); still, when I do go "out there," I enjoy the views; and, I don't have to be rich to do that, do I? (J/kiddin' . . . j/ribbin' . . .)