Friday, April 27, 2007

Sports and Pageants

Over casual conversation, the topic of performance enhancement substances and sports were discussed. We covered the unfair competitive advantage players gained while feigning innocence. As this discussion occurred at a sports bar, the TV monitors behind us were televising the Hooters' beauty pageant. A light bulb went on, shouldn't the same standards be applied to women's beauty pageants? Augmentations, nips, tucks, liposuction, rhinoplastys, collagen injections were easily accessible, not to mention, LEGAL. As long as you had the money, you could get any of the above procedures done to enhance your appearance.

It wouldn't be a stretch to say that plastic surgery is the steroid of the beauty contest world. Why isn't there any restrictions to level the playing field for contestants everywhere? Or, at the very least, separate pageants for those who choose to go under the knife and those who remain true to what God gave them. I know not all the Hooters girls are as "wholesome" as they claim. If not separate pageants, at least bonus points for being Foster Farms chicks.

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