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REVIEWS | Issue: "Building a better boycott" October 04, 1997

Culture

There she isn't

The problem with beauty pageants is not the beauty part | Arsenio Orteza

"There are two reasons why the Miss America Pageant still exists," reads a letter in the September 13 TV Guide. "One is to give millions of men a few hours to imagine themselves in bed with 51 different beautiful women. The other is to make certain women realize that it will never be enough to just be intelligent."

Alas, because the writer of this letter is herself a lass, one doubts her beauty and intelligence both. Beautiful women, after all, seldom object to the public celebration of female beauty, and intelligent women seldom split their infinitives. All kidding aside, her last sentence would still rankle: Since when has "just" being intelligent ever been enough?

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Against intelligence untouched by such fruit, however, there are 10 laws. Sooner or later, intelligence minus love results in theft, lying, murder, and every other sin prohibited by the Decalogue.

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