Beauty pageants should, in theory, be beyond criticism, seeing as they are already beyond parody. Contrived questions asked of would-be “queens”, sparkly, permanently-upbeat, perma-tanned contestants, pro-forma declarations of seeking world peace – all smack of a view of the world, and a view of female identity, straight out of the 1970s. Still, what I’m about to say is unlikely to be popular. Iraq’s beauty pageant last weekend was a sham.
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