Curvy beauty Ashley Harder, 20, became the third lovely in Trump's pageant stable to run afoul of strict rules designed to keep the beauty contest a wholesome affair.

Stable (noun): 1. a collection of animals housed in such a building.

2. interesting new way to describe women.

A pageant stable... why not call it a harem as well?

Don't expect much professionalism from the NY Daily News.

I love how they say she became pregnant.

I guess that took her out of the pagent so she could be sent to the lab for research on self-fertilization.

Why is the media/American society always so surprised to learn that girls and women who have been trained to look sexy, have been higly praised for their sexiness, and indeed have won contests and money because of their sex appeal are ACTUALLY HAVING SEX?!

Talk about being shoved into a very small corner.

A good friend of mine got into pageants in college. She used her winnings to pay quite a bit of tuition, and I supported her and held my (bitchy, feminist) tongue out of loyalty. I could never convince myself what she was doing was right, though...and this article is why. Is parading around in what is, ultimately, a misogynist peep show okay if you use your winnings to further your education? I think not. Now the only question is, why am I telling this to the anonymous internet instead of my friend?

"pose nude while in a family way"--nice.

"Why is the media/American society always so surprised to learn that girls and women who have been trained to look sexy, have been higly praised for their sexiness, and indeed have won contests and money because of their sex appeal are ACTUALLY HAVING SEX?!"

Because if women become sexual subjects as well as sexual objects, then men might have to contend with the scary, scary thought that the object of their fantasies might (horrors!) not want them! Oh no!

But if they pretend she's not have sex, then she doesn't want them. Because she doesn't want sex.

Oh, wait. That involves logic, which involves using your brain.

Heh. Well, it's more of a global rejection ("I am a pure screen on which to project your sexual fantasies") which each man can then fantasize will respond to him ("Despite my purity, I cannot resist your rugged, prepossessing manliness! Take me now!"). Whereas if she has an actual sex life, she might engage in a specific rejection ("It's not that I don't want sex, because I do, and I have sex. Demonstrably. I just don't want sex with you!").

Eh, maybe not. I'm kind of making it up as I go along.

Maybe they just don't want to imagine someone else's peepee ruining their pure virgin image?

Well...if you're going to be all succinct and sensible and ruin my fun!

PaperDaisy,

I saw an interesting article/discussion (forget where, or what) a while back about the fact that women can earn more money in sexual industries than in almost any other facet of life. Strippers can earn about a quarter-million a year (a salary that even the very well-paid Law Fairy may be jealous of); models earn a fortune; and, obviously, pageant contestants can make a nice chunk of change.

You can frivolously say (the general "you," not the women here) that sex sells, but, in reality, there is a tremendously large market for women and sex.

I'll certainly snicker alongside any woman smart enough to take money away from drooling, incoherent, small-egoed men... but it is a sad statement that this is one of the best ways for women to make money - not by their brains or their education, but on account of having a nice body. :(

To be fair, regarding "stable": the word has long since been used by, for example, professional wrestling commentators to denote groups of wrestlers who are, in storylines, openly allied but do not necessarily tag together.

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