By Jetset
Alejandro
The world is being besieged with a new war. A war of words! A
war of invectives! A real world word war! The recent results of the Miss World
Beauty Pageant 2012 saw a lot of social media being used from pageant forums,
Facebook, Twitters, blogs and even major e-zine. The common response is that
the result of the pageant is a major sell-out.
Take note of the best in Talent. Miss China’s performance
cannot even equal other performances of the 4 Top finalists and yet she was
awarded the Best in Talent. And to think Miss Philippines' performance
presenting beat boxing was picked up by the internet media and was praised and
noted well by not only pageant critics but also entertainment media. And
because of this, all hell broke loose.
Since last year, I have already said that the Miss World
Beauty Pageant is not a pageant at all. They have the different segment
competitions but the candidates do not compete on the final pageant. The Top 15
or 20 are announced and then the Top 7 is announced without any basis why. Then
after a final repartee of saying why will they crown you Miss World, the final
three is announced. This year’s Top 15 choices are well chosen but when the Top
7 and the final winner were announced people are already up in arms. I pity
Miss India who was the brickbat of pageant fans with which favoritism labeled
on her but eventually did not matter on the final selection. I pity Miss Mexico
who came in second in the final reckoning but was totally snubbed as she did
not matter on the final 3. Miss Mexico is the epitome of beauty and grace. It
was a big wonder why Miss China made it as the winner of Miss World. I would
have been happier had it been Miss Wales or Australia were crowned as the
winner.
The Miss World Organization came out of their official statement
that the selection of Miss Wenxia Yu is above par and that it is just a
coincidence that she won in her native soil. But still the doubt lingers most
especially among Filipino pageant fans that are so rabid with their support for
their candidate. Take for example, the Miss Social Media award. A lot of
pageant fans who are monitoring the votes noted that there seem to be vote
shaving against Miss Philippines. If you read the FB page of Miss Philippines,
those who are monitoring complain because it seems that previous votes of 300
were deducted every now and then from her “likes” – a mysterious phenomenon.
Initially it was Miss Vietnam that was catapulted by inexorably phenomenal
votes only to find out later that Miss India will clip the wings of Miss
Vietnam and Miss Philippines for the special award.
It is also a wonder how Miss Philippines did not even etch
her name among the Top 30 in the interview portion. She is an Assumptionista
and that she should be able to expound and bring out her ideas with the least
problem. And yet……frustrating to see her not to penetrate a very important segment
of the criteria selection of the pageant.
These may sound as gripes but this writer is just one of
cacophony of voices among disgruntled pageant fans. Although we know that
recent political events point out to a possible non-inclusion, pageant fans
became more hopeful when she almost had good performances in the different
categories. In my case, I am not hopeful for a win. I have written that in my
previous articles. We have received some filtered information that some
national directors for Miss Tourism pageants based in China were advised not to
send candidates from the Philippines because of the brewing conflict between
China and the Philippines. If this is true, then, pageants have become a
political landscape too used by the host country to attain their objectives.
It is such a pity that things like these happen since it has
always been perceived that beauty pageants are something of a small scale
United Nations and that the aim is Unity among Diversity. Sadly it is not. It
has become an arena of further conflicts.
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