Putting the issue of beauty pageants aside and the patronising comments on western opinions and African cultural traditions, it is still an inappropriate tool, which objectifies women.
But the curious thing about the Miss Captivity Pageant -- aside, of course, from the fact that it took place behind concertina wire -- was that by the time it was over, early fears had proved groundless.
Indians, aside from elementary school Thanksgiving pageants, are usually left out of the celebration entirely.
Home commitments aside, for most of these kids Pageant seemed like a reprieve from the motivated and ambitious lives of Mormon teenagers, like a really fun summer camp where you get to dress up and run around with spears all day.
Sophie and I started out, rolling our bags, and with Konrad perhaps coincidentally rolling his bike, and the three of us often rolling aside onto the carless tarmac in deference to the pageant of costumed revelers coming the other way.
Aside from the "honey-boo-boo child" toddlers and pageant mama drama, I hope that audiences see the true heart of our segment tonight: a 9-year-old's shameless love for her gay godfather who's famous for performing as a drag queen.
The former host of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice – he stepped aside before the network dumped his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants amid the latest row – had earlier accused Obama of being "the least transparent president in the history of this country" for failing to release his passport records and college records.
The Trans Nation festival is particularly different from the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, because there is an entire day specifically set aside to celebrate the beauty of being transgender though the Queen USA Transgender Beauty Pageant.
After business concluded, Harth and Houraney were on tour of Mar-a-Lago along with a group of young pageant contestants – Trump wanted to "see the quality of the girls he was sponsoring", Harth recalled – when he pulled her aside into one of the children's bedrooms.
Aside from worrying about the new Miss America taking her day-after dunk in a frigid Atlantic, the new chief executive of the Miss America Pageant, Robert Renneisen Jr., says he is not concerned about generating interest in the pageant.
