Why I stopped reading the LA Times (about 20 years ago)

[renard_ruse]

This is the kind of angry extremist swill that "news" paper was spewing out a generation ago. Well, in fact, it wasn't even this bad. Its no longer content with semi-subtle propaganda, it now spews pure angry, hateful social lib extremism. I don't even know where to start in response.

Miss America pageant: Always a few steps behind

By Robin Abcarian
September 16, 2013, 9:16 a.m.



The ludicrous thing about the Miss America pageant, which took place in Atlantic City. N.J., Sunday night, is that anyone treats it as meaningful, rather than a retro institution clinging to the corrosive idea that female accomplishment is most palatable when it is packaged in Botox, bleach and bikinis.

The Indian American community may take pride that one of their own has become Miss America for the first time, after performing a Bollywood-style dance, also a first, in the talent competition.

But the dark skin of Nina Davuluri, 24, an aspiring physician who lost 60 pounds in order to compete, also prompted a predictable Twitter outpouring of good old-fashioned American racism. CNN quoted a few choice tweets:

"If you're #Miss America you should have to be American."

"WHEN WILL A WHITE WOMAN WIN #MISSAMERICA? Ever??!!"

"Well they just picked a Muslim for Miss America. That must've made Obama happy. Maybe he had a vote."

(Davuluri is American, and she is not a Muslim.)

For your reading disgust, BuzzFeed produced an instant list: "A lot of people are very upset that an Indian-American won the Miss America pageant."

(Does the unmediated glimpse of the Neanderthal brain afforded by Twitter really shock us? Or do we just pretend to be shocked so we can feel superior to these yahoos? Those would have been good questions for the Miss America Q&A segment.)

This year, yet another contest received a lot of attention for stuff that is normal in the rest of the world but simply shocking in the Miss America pageant.

Miss Kansas, Theresa Vail, is believed to be the first soldier to have competed. On Planet Miss America, which is stranded on the space-time continuum closer to Betty Crocker than Sally Ride, Vail’s participation thus became huge news.

Stories about her have focused on her Palinesque skills; she can shoot a gun and skin a deer — and still fill out her fatigues. (Which, to her credit, she wore with combat boots in a parade over the weekend.)

Vail wanted to shoot a bow and arrow for her talent segment but was thwarted by contest rules.

Oh, and she also has tattoos, including the Serenity Prayer, visible on her back during the swimsuit competition. (Just typing “swimsuit competition” makes me want to have a martini, light up a cigarette and turn on Jack Paar.)

Are we really pretending that it’s transgressive for an American woman in her 20s to be tattooed? Or that it’s a remarkable act of courage to show her ink?

On Planet Miss America, the answer is yes.

“There’s a big taboo in the pageant, nobody shows their tattoos for fear of losing,” Vail told Fox411, “but I said, ‘What a hypocrite I would be if I say, "Be all you can be, embrace your individuality, embrace your differences, break barriers," if I couldn’t even do that myself.'”

Reporter: “You had to change your talent at the last minute.”

Vail: “I wanted to do archery. I wasn’t allowed. I had to pick up singing. I guess the Miss America organization has an insurance clause against projectile objects.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...ys-a-few-steps-behind-20130916,0,314469.story

 

[renard_ruse]

I guess I'll simply ask, what on earth does this author have against a nice lady like Betty Crocker? I mean, really, how can you hate on that...

 

[renard_ruse]

Looks like the article could have been penned by some of the denizens of the GB.

 

[renard_ruse]

If everything that the writer is complaining about is really so "anachronistic" and "retro" and all the usual cliches, why is she so angry? Why does she even bother to get so upset?

Oh, wait, its not. More women are choosing to leave their careers and become housewives than they have in decades. Despite all the propaganda and brainwashing, feminists are still losing ground. That's why they are so angry despite everyone who disagrees with them being "out of touch" and "stuck in a time warp" and "irrelevant throwbacks." Biology can only be f*cked with so much.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I guess I'll simply ask, what on earth does this author have against a nice lady like Betty Crocker? I mean, really, how can you hate on that...

I think the reason no one has responded is because all you've done is copied & pasted an article. If people want to read that article they can easily go to latimes.com . Another reason is that you haven't expressed any of your own thinking. What is wrong with the article? What don't you like about it? What specific examples strike you as being wrong?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

If everything that the writer is complaining about is really so "anachronistic" and "retro" and all the usual cliches, why is she so angry? Why does she even bother to get so upset?

Oh, wait, its not. More women are choosing to leave their careers and become housewives than they have in decades. Despite all the propaganda and brainwashing, feminists are still losing ground. That's why they are so angry despite everyone who disagrees with them being "out of touch" and "stuck in a time warp" and "irrelevant throwbacks." Biology can only be f*cked with so much.

Do you have any peer reviewed studies to back this up?

 

[renard_ruse]

We need a Miss Feminine America contest, so that young women can compete to prove who is the most feminine, well mannered, and ladylike. That would really piss off the LA Times.

 

[renard_ruse]

I think the reason no one has responded is because all you've done is copied & pasted an article. If people want to read that article they can easily go to latimes.com . Another reason is that you haven't expressed any of your own thinking. What is wrong with the article? What don't you like about it? What specific examples strike you as being wrong?

When nobody responds its because they know I'm right.

Its a good sign when the usual brigade stays outta my threads.

 

[RjThoughts]

So, you don't like the fact that Miss American 2014 is Indian and not White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant?

 

[phrodeau]

I guess I'll simply ask, what on earth does this author have against a nice lady like Betty Crocker? I mean, really, how can you hate on that...

Betty Crocker is a fictitious figure created to sell wheat products and cookbooks.

 

[renard_ruse]

Miss Kansas, Theresa Vail, is believed to be the first soldier to have competed. On Planet Miss America, which is stranded on the space-time continuum closer to Betty Crocker than Sally Ride, Vail’s participation thus became huge news.

Stories about her have focused on her Palinesque skills; she can shoot a gun and skin a deer — and still fill out her fatigues. (Which, to her credit, she wore with combat boots in a parade over the weekend.)

So, we have a confused young lady who doesn't know if she wants to be a guy or a girl. Ok, fine. There's a lot of that with both sexes these days. It doesn't mean she is qualified to be Miss America, and thankfully she's not.

 

[renard_ruse]

So, you don't like the fact that Miss American 2014 is Indian and not White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant?

I don't like the fact that the LA Times has articles that sound like they were written by Bad Baby Sitter on a crystal binge.

 

[renard_ruse]

As for the Indian thing, that's not the point of the thread. The liberal extremist author hides behind the race issue to give herself moral legitimacy while her real agenda is to promote radical gender politics.

 

[RjThoughts]

As for the Indian thing, that's not the point of the thread. The liberal extremist author hides behind the race issue to give herself moral legitimacy while her real agenda is to promote radical gender politics.

No, it's not!

The author pointed out how this country is STILL ignorant

 

[renard_ruse]

When the stopped requiring "Miss" America to be a virgin, the pagent stopped making sense. That's what made it "Miss" America.

 

[RjThoughts]

When the stopped requiring "Miss" America to be a virgin, the pagent stopped making sense. That's what made it "Miss" America.

Hey sparky, it's 2013, not 1933!

 

[Sean Renaud]

They really once required virgins only? Wow.

And the article seems to be pointing out how stupid people are capable of being, something that often doesn't get enough attention in this country.

 

[Bert Notorius]

i still get spam emails from the la times from 5 years ago.