Remarks by the Miss Universe pageant owner: "Miss Universe organization, from now on it's gonna be run by women. Owned by a trans woman. For all women around the world to celebrate the power of feminism." Hungh? Celebrating contestants' beauty and styling maybe, but pageants are feminism? Give me a break! Check with a few feminists. There's nothing more sexist than women parading around in high heels and bathing suits to conform to beauty standards set by men. So enjoy pageants if that's your thing, but please don't claim this shallowness is feminism. It's the opposite. Women should not be judged solely on their looks. They should also be judged on their cooking, sewing, ability to churn butter and how many paces they walk behind their men. (Kidding!) GRAZIA: "Feminists have opposed beauty pageants since - well since they’ve both existed - even when there has been an argument that they are striking a blow for equality. 2020 sees the release of Misbehaviour, a film about the feminst opposition to the Miss World pageant in 1970, which saw the crowning of the first black Miss World. While pageants are certainly less objectionable when they feature a more diverse line-up, it still doesn’t sanitise the rampant sexism they represent. Pageant organisers have tried, over the last couple of decades, to modernise. The events were dubbed ‘scholarship programs’. Some chapters ditched the swimsuit round, while last year Miss GB had a ‘no make-up round’. But no matter what is changed, the principle remains the same. Women are offering themselves up to be rubber-stamped with the approval that they are beautiful. There is no way – no matter how many swimsuit rounds you remove, or whatever euphemism you use to describe the pageant – to get away from the fact that ranking women by their beauty is deeply, unquestionably outdated. Allowing a wider demographic of women as beautiful is not progress. Believing that all women are valuable regardless of whether or not they are beautiful - that’s progress." MORE: https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/in-the-news/miss-universe-zozibini-tunzi/