Beauty (Pageant) Diplomacy
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What do Miss Universe, Miss World and international beauty pageants tell us about globalization and national identity, and why are pageants becoming MORE popular across the Global South? Feminist sociologist Dr. Oluwakemi Balogun embedded in Nigeria’s beauty pageant industry to find out. Kemi takes us beyond Western feminism’s tête-à-tête with pageant culture and to see what big international beauty pageants can tell us about gender, globalization, and the precarious power of being a beauty queen. Her book is Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying a Nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Look again at the Queen of the Mall, Miss Universe, the most beautiful girl in the world. I'm Lady Like. |
| 0:23.0 | A Lady. A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like |
| 0:31.0 | I've had enough. This is unladie like I'm Kristen. On November 18th 90 bedazzled women will take the stage in El Salvador for the 72nd Miss Universe |
| 0:48.6 | pageant for the Queen of the Mall. |
| 0:53.6 | Contestants, although at Miss Universe, |
| 0:55.7 | they are called delegates, will compete in evening gown, |
| 0:59.8 | swim suit, national costume, and Q&A. |
| 1:04.7 | And if all goes according to plan, |
| 1:07.1 | only one will be named winner. |
| 1:10.8 | Miss Universe 2015. Mr. Universe, 2015 is Columbia. |
| 1:29.0 | Columbia. I have to apologize. Miss Universe 2015 is Philippines. |
| 1:39.0 | Please don't hold it against the ladies. |
| 1:41.0 | Please don't. |
| 1:42.0 | We feel so badly, but it's still a great night. Thank you all. |
| 1:45.8 | And ladies, if y'all have never seen the 2015 Steve Harvey Oopsie Daisy at the Miss Universe crowning. |
| 1:53.6 | The emotional journey that both Miss Columbia |
| 1:56.6 | and Miss Philippines take with just their faces |
| 2:00.6 | during this like two minute debacle is incredible. |
| 2:06.2 | Miss Universe does not get to take home a crown, |
| 2:09.0 | however, the current iteration which is covered in sapphires and diamonds is worth millions of dollars and probably held to get through customs and also if you wear that thing around too long it'll probably break your neck. |
| 2:24.0 | Miss Universe and Miss World are the two most watched beauty |
| 2:27.4 | pageants, and along with Miss International and the very alien sounding Miss Earth they make up the big four |
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