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Offline Sigmaleph

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How sexist?
« on: January 12, 2012, 09:17:27 pm »
OK, so I have a question. Recently, the city of Corrientes (Argentina) announced a contest to choose Miss Summer 2012 and "the best ass of the summer". The beauty contest, when Carnaval draws near, is something of a tradition. The ass part is not. As you can imagine, that didn't go over very well, public outrage, mayor declaring someone else added that line to the press release, etc. Several organizations protesting it as sexist. If you can read Spanish, there's an article on the subject here

So here's the part that got me wondering. Certainly it's far more offensive to rate women by their butts than a traditional beauty contest. But is it any more sexist? The fact that all these people are only protesting it on grounds of sexism now means they think so. My first instinct was the same, but then I realised I cannot find any reason why that's so.

So is it that the sexism is just more noticeable when you talk about women's asses, or is it actually more sexist in some way I cannot think of?

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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 09:27:54 pm »
They are both equally sexist and objectifying. I think the difference between beauty and ass contests are that people rationalize the first one as an evaluation of personal qualities or some junk like that. When they just judge asses it doesn't allow for these kind of excuses.

Or maybe its just the tact involved. I went out to a bar a little while back with a friend and one stranger said I had a nice ass (right beside me and loud enough for me to hear) and I felt offended. Totally sleezy. However if he had told me I looked nice I would have been flattered.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 09:30:45 pm »
Well the same girl would be the winner of both, wouldn't she?
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 09:56:45 pm »
I guess the only difference is one contest superficially judges women based on one aspect of their bodies while the other superficially judges women based on their entire bodies.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 10:49:17 pm »
Do they do the same thing for the Mr. Summer 2012 contests?
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 10:52:07 pm »
I fail to see how one is more sexist than the other.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 10:53:56 pm »
They're kinda equal to me.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2012, 11:17:42 pm »
One's just more honest than the other.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2012, 11:59:48 pm »
What...

o_O  So people that go out of their way to get judged on their body are being upset abouting judged on their body?

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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2012, 12:36:40 am »
I think that both are equally sexist.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2012, 12:43:01 am »
Fuck this touchy feely bullshit, show me some ass and boobs!*

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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2012, 01:00:04 am »
Quote from: deadpandoubter on January 13, 2012, 12:43:01 am
Fuck this touchy feely bullshit, show me some ass and boobs!*

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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2012, 01:33:39 am »
They're both sexist, one is just more obvious than the other.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2012, 01:35:17 am »
Cute ass, Vene.
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Re: How sexist?
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2012, 01:39:45 am »
that's an awesome picture of boobies.
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