The other day, my friend and I had an interesting conversation about Miss California 2009. He thought winner Carrie Prejean was shallow because of her answer to Perez Hilton’s question regarding same sex marriage.

I thought she wasn’t. Prejean had conviction and that should be respected despite of differences in opinion. It’s a matter of standing up for what you truly believe in instead of trying to get the approval of other people. I’m not sure whether that kind of question was appropriate in a beauty pageant, though. The question was more political and raised too much debate and controversy.

I told my friend that Prejean wasn’t shallow. I guess it’s how beauty pageants are being celebrated that make women shallow. There’s the glitz and glamour in beauty pageants I know but it can get all too consuming to the point that a woman’s beauty is based on the superficial and the intelligence on the hypothetical.

My friend then cited his observations about beauty pageants, which I found amusing. I quipped by telling him that he might want to publish a book about it. He said he would if I was on the cover in a bikini and a crown.

I was at wits end.

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