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 Posté le: Ven Aoû 02, 2013 11:11 am Sujet du message: S] Iris Telma Jónsdóttir |
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Miss Iceland Gets a Chilly Reception From Feminists
But that spin hasn't stopped the backlash. "Who cares what he meant?" Brynhildur Heidardottir Omarsdottir, a literary critic who also signed up for the event, said. In her opinion, Mr. Rafnsson has given feminists the stage they need to disparage the event for objectifying women and promoting a narrow stereotype of the ideal female.Iris Telma Jonsdottir, Iceland's contestant in the 2012 Miss World event,motorcycle mufflers, isn't amused. "They're wrong,motorcycle exhaust, they know nothing about this," the 22-year-old beauty queen said. Miss Jonsdottir has the unfortunate job of sifting through #file_links[D:\keywords5.txt,1,S] applications for the coming Miss Iceland contest and the publicity stirred by feminists has even sparked an abnormally high influx of legitimate hopefuls. That means she has a lot more reading to do before selecting the field of 25 women who will #file_links[D:\keywords1.txt,1,S] actually compete for a chance to move on to Miss World. Even without this year's #file_links[D:\keywords4.txt,1,S] antics, Iceland's history with beauty pageants has had its moments.In the 1970s, a cow was stolen from a nearby farm and paraded by opponents of the contest through the hotel where the Miss Iceland competition was held. The animal was wearing a ribbon. A decade later, female members of Reykjavik's city council staged a protest by showing up for a council meeting wearing ballroom dresses and homemade crowns. To Kill A Beauty Contest Activists working to end Miss Iceland are emboldened after scores of applicants who don't fit the beauty queen mold sign up for the 2013 event. View Slideshow Ellen Emmerentze Jervell/The Wall Street Journal #file_links[D:\keywords3.txt,1,S] Iris Telma Jónsdóttir, Iceland's contestant in the 2012 Miss World event. More recently, the Miss Iceland contest took heat after contestant contracts were published. The pacts, now abandoned, provided that participants weren't to get pregnant, become mentally ill or to gain weight for the three years following the event. One of the most ambitious salvos against Miss Iceland came in 2007, when Ms. Helgadottir-Jonudottir created Untamed Beauty, an alternative beauty contest where everyone was given a prize. "At my competition, the criteria of beauty were stretch marks and saggy boobs," she said while sitting with her friends in early July. Ms. Omarsdottir, one of Ms. Helgadottir-Jonudottir's peers, isn't deterred by being barred from the 2013 Miss Iceland contest because of her age. During the conversation in the meeting room, she said the group's next salvo against the contest could be a parody video set to the old Tina Turner hit "Simply the Best," that would go viral.Ms. Richardsdottir, the producer, said she had alread #file_links[D:\keywords2.txt,1,S] y purchased the "fruisland.is" domain name, or "mrsiceland.is." At the least, the group should launch an online protest, she said. Brynhildur Bjornsdottir returns to the Tina Turner parody idea: "We are simply the best, naa naa naa," she sang.Ms. Omarsdottir held up her arms and started dancing in her seat. "I think a video with some women like us singing and shaking some booty would be just perfect." Write to Ellen Emmerentze Jervell at ellen.jervell@wsj.com |
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