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Theres leaflets around the place explaining our protestation. Basically ,we object to the unions involvment in what is a very sexist and exclusive event.
Here are the rules for the 'competiton':
Each contestant:-
1) shall be of good character and possessed of charm poise personality and have beauty of face and figure
2) shall be a person whose background is not likely to bring into disrepute The Miss World Contest or Title or the Licensee or the Promoter or any person associated with them Posing for nude or semi nude pictures would be considered in this.
3) shall be a person :-
(i) who usually uses the prefix 'Miss' ( or eqivalent ) before her name
(ii) who has never been through any ceremony either valid or invalid and whether civil, religious or tribal which is recognized as a marriage ceremony in any part of the world
(iii) who has never given birth to a child
Each girl that enters must be a minimum of 5foot4inches
What sort of message Is this sending out to the majority of union membership (Ie. young females)?
If your short your ugly?
After you have a child your ugly?
When you get married your no longer desirable?
Only single,tall ,virgins are worthy to represnt UCD on a world stage! Its very offensive and is not a message that the union should be associating with.
A bit of craic is a table quiz or a karoke, having women show their bodies so their bum,thighs,breasts,face can be scrutinized by a whole load of men is not 'a bit of craic'. If you think it is then I urge you to come along tommorow and I will happily give you marks out of ten for your body shape and type. Its a 1 outside the arts block hope to see you there.
As for being 'democratically' voted down......Well, union council Is made up of a majority of young males I felt I would take my message to the real union membership,i.e a majority of young females. The support from students and staff has been overwhelming. If the union are trying to get more women inovled in the union,as they should be,they are going the wrong way about it.
Thats why we decided not to hold the protest at the venue itself. We do not want or wish to intimidate the women themselves who choose to enter this competiton. Our protest is at the outdated concept of Miss World itself. We also want to protest at the unions involvment and to show our disspointment they are supporting this sexist event while doing little to highlight womens issues on campus this year.
As for being for charity,it is not up to a student union to fund a completly underfunded part of the health service. Awarnness/treatment/research for primary Immunodeficiency disorders is completly underresourced in Ireland .If the union really cared about rasing money for underfunded parts of the health service then they should mobilise students to fight back against these cutbacks in our health service instead of running a beauty pageant which will raise an insignisficant amount for a very significant cause.
I urge all those who oppose sexism on campus and the unions involvment in this degrading event to come along tommorow at 1 outside the arts blcok. We have some excellent speakers form the Equality department and all in all It will be a thought-provoking,intresting,and fun event
Just want to make a very obvious point here:
Let's suppose we had a "MR UCD" competition. I following with the mr world,america,unoverse etc format it would be dudes with massive muscles that fit a certain stereotype. Ronny coleman and the like, right?
So say a ronnie-esque dude wins the competition, what does that say about him? Is he the most beautiful man in the world?
Well ladies if you would rather **** him than say, johhny depp or chadmichealmurray or whoever then you would be in a minority but chad wouldnt even QUALIFY for a Mr. Universe Paegent.
And does it make him a good person?, if he won would it seal him in as a man to be respected, would we judge his character by it?
Female beauty pagents are not about the BEAUTY as in inner and outer or worth of a contestant. They mesure, liek the Mr Universe ones, how well a person fits a certain stereotype or whatever.
Complaining about this is the same as complaining about a bodybuilding competition, or even a swimming race or a marathon. People in these competions use their genetics and training and diet to conform to a certain stereotype (runner's body, rugby player, weightlifter etc) . People then compete with like minded individuals to validate their efforts, or whatever.
The girl who wins will probably not be the most beautiful, or the most intelligent, but that is not the point, she will be the best at beauty pagents and nothing more.
If you feel it is unhealthy or whatever then look at the rate of steroid abuse in bodybuilding, sudden heart failure in weightlifting etc. sacrifice for competition.
Not letting people compete in their favourite type of competition is limiting their freedom and chance at happiness. I feel you are pulling up the issue precicely because is is a female event, i doubt a mr ucd would cause as much controversy. You are limiting freedom of expression on the basis of gender here........is there a word for that?0 -
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Id like to reply to all the comments but tbh I think If hear the words Miss UCD one more time il scream! The media blew the whole thing out of proportion last week and completly warped the intentions of last Thursdays demo,as gubbie keeps saying .imarugbyball wrote: »I feel you are pulling up the issue precicely because is is a female event, i doubt a mr ucd would cause as much controversy. You are limiting freedom of expression on the basis of gender here........is there a word for that?
Just to reiterate cos the Mr Universe/UCD thing keeps coming up. If there was an SU sponsered Mr UCD we would oppose it because I wouldnt like to see men coming under the same pressures women are regards apperance. Also theres no ban, as far as I know, against fathers entering the Mr universe/Mr Ireland competiton. The Miss Ireland/universe organiser said on the radio the other day that mothers are banned because If they won they would have to travel and would be very busy so it wouldnt be very motherly to leave your child at home. Mr universe has to travel to,so its okay for him to work and leave the child at home but not the mother?Once again completly reinforcing the idea that women have to say at home and mind the kids. Miss Ireland/UCD feeds into the reality that once your pregnant and have children your screwed as your not only undesirable but your also unemployable too. The union shouldnt be supporting a franchise that promotes this extremely archaic message in its rules.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/11/26/cbview26.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2005/nov/25/workandcareers.genderissues0 -
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imarugbyball wrote: »Not letting people compete in their favourite type of competition is limiting their freedom and chance at happiness. I feel you are pulling up the issue precicely because is is a female event, i doubt a mr ucd would cause as much controversy. You are limiting freedom of expression on the basis of gender here........is there a word for that?
the words sexism right?
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