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The Stereotypes Rally - Miss University pageant picket

fil | 11.03.2009 03:44 | Gender | Social Struggles

Over 50 people gathered outside Crystal nightclub off Oxford Street, London, to demonstrate against the miss university beauty pageant being hosted inside.








A around 10pm the front entrance of the club was locked shut by a small group of activists who also chained them themselves to the door to prevent access. The police and fire brigade were needed to cut the chains and the blockaders were arrested. For the remainder of the evening the queue of revelers attending the pageant was picketed.

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Voting Booth

11.03.2009 10:53

Yes, a fine evening, top marks to the girls chained to the doors, and to the others who got into the event to raise merry hell.

Our "voting" booth went down well (or at least it was suitably offensive).

We asked me from the queue to go into the tent and "vote" over pictures of the girls (we provided kleenex). Then we kept a tally of the girls who brought the guys over the edge. Obviously this was to help 'empower' the girls by 'educating them' on who was the prettiest.

We also campaigned for the return of the swimwear round.

alas lots of the boys in the queue were rather disturbed by a bunch of men protesting outside and attempted to rip apart our pictures and booth.

My favourite quotes were:

"you're worse than the feminists, it's disgusting"

"What so you want people to wank in the booth, over the girls and judge them, how's that any different from the competition?"
erm exactly...

and not forgetting

"I don't know what they're protesting about, it's not even animal cruelty, they must be jealous"


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question time

11.03.2009 11:25

how come its the ugly women who were protesting were they jealous or something

beauty queen

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thoughts

11.03.2009 12:50

> how come its the ugly women who were protesting were they jealous or something

A fair point. Many protests are done by the 'have-nots' being envious of the 'haves'
It does disturb me that people are so worked up about it. To not be able to walk away from it and spend their free time doing their own activities is rather incomprehensible.

I think once you are out of university, you find your sense of place more and become more involved in your own life rather than worrying about what people do with theirs. I imagine the main reason mainy students protest thse kinds of things is because it is 'a good laugh' with their mates. Fair enough, but equally shouldn't be taken literally or seriously. Once out of university, that social thing disipates and they end up leading a life where they become more central to themselves.


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11.03.2009 19:42

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