MISS
UGLY
Every Nigerian girl wants to be Miss this or
Miss that, Face of this or Face of that. She wants to wear the crown of a
pageantry competition. She doesn’t mind opening her legs from the gateman to
the CEO of the organizers, as long as she gets the crown.
The guys have cued into this desperate want of the ladies.
Today, many modeling agencies are springing up just to satisfy the desperate
ladies. All you have to do is pick a form and register with the agency, whether
you get a modeling contract or not is not in any way part of their business.
Once in a while they pack the girls to a photo studio to take photos in
hyper-sexualized positions.
Girls who have no wherewithal for modeling are trooping
into agencies. They always have a consolation in the notion that “if you are slim
and beautiful, go for pageantry, if you are slim but ugly, go for pageantry,
and if you are beautiful but fat, go for billboards. What a funny world.
It
is quite funny, what has a 4ft girl got to do with Miss Nigeria. If she contests
and loses, she blames her failure on the judges for not being fair. Why won’t
the judges be fair with your size? Girls forget that heels and wedges don’t
make them tall; it only increases their height temporarily. Take the heels off,
and you will be marveled as to how short she is.
Today,
winners of pageantry competitions have no pet projects, their interest lies on
the car and cash price they will receive and the ego and fame of being a
winner. The essence of pageantry is lost.
A
lot of names have sprung up for these pageantries “Face of Democracy, Miss
Model Nigeria, Miss Independence, and Miss Dazzle Nigeria. Tomorrow I can
organize pageantry and tag it Miss Ugly or Miss Fat, girls will still contest
as long as my price is enticing nobody cares about the name.
It
is high time pageantry organizers are sensitized and the industry sanitized.
Everybody should realize that getting to the top by all means, implies falling
off by all means.
Augustus Bill
©2014
TUN/0019//06/10/14
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