Miss Universe
So Rachael Finch came fourth in this year’s Miss Universe. Let’s get one thing straight: there’s only reason we put so much store in this vacuous bit of exhibitionism in Australia, and that’s Jennifer Hawkins.
Look at this picture. Any competition that presents an image of women from Ecuador as straw-hat wearing lovelies who carry carry around bananas and tribal masks deserves nothing but opprobrium.
Other dresses in the “national costume” section of the competition are similarly clownish stereotypes. Ostensibly they’re supposed to celebrate the diversity of the competition - but Miss Panama ends up looking like she’s being eaten by a cartoon monster from the internet, and Miss Bahamas ends up looking like a giant yellow peacock (sorry - no link, take my word for it). It might be funny, if it wasn’t so crass.
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