On Freaks...

In between school, organizing, and blogging, yes I actually do things just for fun. Ok, well blogging is fun, but only when you can throw in those fun posts that make all the academic stuff worth it.

So this weekend I saw Little Miss Sunshine, an excellent film about a family and all the problems that go along with being in one.

I would like to particularly talk about the Little Miss Sunshine Pageant scene. The first clip shows all the contestants in the bathing suit walk through. All of the girls except Olive are wearing makeup, heals, and hair extensions. In an earlier scene one girl is getting spray tan on her legs. The point is that they are trying to win with the sexuality of these girls and to make them look as grown up as possible. Little Olive is the only one without makeup, in a simple one- piece, her hair down in a pony-tail, and even with a little tummy.

The next clip is of Olive's "talent" in which she is doing somewhat of a striptease to the ever appropriate Rick James' "Superfreak". The crowd is more or less disgusted (aside from the one pedifile in the audience) and try to pull her off the stage.

The point is, one is really no different from the other. What the other girls were doing was the same display of young, tabooed sexuality, but in a more subtile form. And becuase olive was not your typical pageant girl, she was stigmitzed and thrown out of the contest.