Beauty Pageants And The Whole Tara Conner Thing

ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.

Regarding beauty pageants and the whole Tara Conner thing: If they're looking for fine upstanding role models to be pageant winners, they're going to have to look again at girls and women who look like Ugly Betty or Rosanne or Rosie O'Donnell. Because in 2006/2007, you show me a hot sexy babe in miniskirts and high heels who looks like Tara Conner or Katie Rees, and I'll show you.....well, those notorious pics of Katie Rees! Or a porno star or pop star or spokesmodel or actress or something. (Look at the girls on/in car magazines.) Hot babes rule and they know what they want to be, what they want to do, where they want to go (as in hot nightclubs for debauchery from late night to dawn) and how to make big money nowadays. It's empowerment. Why? How? The socialogical aspects of that would fill up a book. Little girls, say 10 years old, are good girls. But when they grow up to be Katie Rees or Lindsay Lohan, the "good girl gone bad" deal is immensely titilating, and the girls know it now, and to them it's exciting. Let's face it, hot babes and money rule now. So I don't think the hot babes you saw winning beauty pageants in the past are going to be the girls who are role models who really contribute to society anymore. The image just doesn't correlate. And really, to me these concepts are happening 25 years later, as I worked at McDonald's in the early '80s with all the heavy metal babes. I know firsthand from back then what behavior hot chicks really exhibit. Just read the lyrics to Streetheart's 1982 hit "Snow White." Heck, girls wore jeans and high heels to the bars all the time then - it took 25 years for that look to hit The Bay and Sears and Old Navy catalogs! I guess the people who put those catalogs together go to bed way before prime bar hours where the girls go out dressed to kill. But now it's all on the internet the next day. And now we're back to Katie Rees! Hey, this comment has come full circle!