Lesson in Life

"A seventeen year old Miss San Antonio lost her title for gaining too much weight, being told by the pageant committee she ate "too many tacos." Instead, Domonique Ramirez's crown was given to the runner up."
- Robin Marty reports, in "Beauty Queen Loses Crown Over Eating "Too Many Tacos"


Bandersnatchi's take on the incident:

A deal is a deal. A contract is a contract.
There was full disclosure - the rules were published and well-known beforehand.
You may not like "beauty contests" or "scholarship programs" but you have to want her to learn to be responsible and to honour her commitment at age 17 - while she's young, before it has life altering consequences.

If she doesn't like the deal after the contest is over and the tour begins, she can quit, give up her crown, forfeit the winnigs - it isn't slavery. The pageant knows winners sometimes stub their toe - that's why they have runners-up. Everybody knows this.

This win could lead to product endorsements for her, maybe, Revlon, maybe DKNY, who knows?
Jessica Alba makes big bucks putting Revlon on her pretty face, but if Jessica Alba puts on weight, stays out late and gets bags under her eyes so she cannot represent Revlon the way she does now, she gets replaced. That's the deal.
Tell the beauty queen to grow up, do her job, or she'll be answering the phone for the local car dealership for the rest of her life.

If God blesses you with good looks, or a singing voice, or the ability to catch a football, you shouldn't squander it by shoving coke up your nose, or Tacos down your throat.

The slow baby turtles get eaten by seagulls on hatching.
Life's tough, but it's beautiful if you don't weaken.

There are billions out there who don't have it as good as Miss San Antonio.
No sympathy here.