I watch Miss Universe every year and every year I try to figure out why anyone would combine swimsuit modelling with world peace. It's like adding apples and oranges.
Quite frankly, this is a competition where size zero – or even smaller (is there something like size minus one?) – models from around the globe compete with one another, by walking the ramp with attitude and wearing everything from gowns to bikinis. They have perfect hair, a perfect pair of legs and yet their ultimate goal is to spread peace and save the world from global warming!
They say these women represent girl power. Exactly what power are we talking about? Is it that women are nothing but pretty faces who fight the wrongs in the world (for a whole one year as per contract) and yet look gorgeous as ever? Because most women I know don't have that power. Are these women's passions toward world peace actually real? What's the guarantee that they are not in it just for the fame? I back my doubt with the fact that most participants of our national beauty pageant end up in Bollywood as the lead heroine or some item girl or other. Whatever happened to world peace?
I think it's time they stop telling us that these pageants represent the power of women. It has got nothing to do with woman power and has got everything to do with pretty girls who want to make it big in the fashion/film industry. Please, woman power is not so petty.
