The 2005 Miss World beauty pageant has once again featured plenty of masculinized contestants, and some comments in this regard are relevant.
What follow are some pictures of the masculinized contestants. Miss World Organization often does not provide clear (close-up) pictures of its contestants at its site, and one is tempted to believe that part of the reason is the unattractiveness of many of its contestants, which Miss World Organization would not be too willing to make clear to the public.
In this entry, I am not critiquing the looks of the women shown. There is nothing wrong with the looks of these women, and these women are better looking than many women out there. On the other hand, my criticism addresses the fact that these women are too masculine and not attractive enough to be participating in a high profile beauty contest.
Miss Albania - Suada Sherifaj
Miss Argentina - Emilia Iannetta
Miss Barbados - Marielle Chetam Onyeche
Miss Brazil - Patricia Reginato
Miss China - Ting Ting Zhao
Miss Colombia - Erika Querubin
Miss Croatia - Maja Cvjetkovic
Miss Cyprus - Orthodoxia (Doxia) Moutsouri
Miss Czech Republic - Lucie Králova
Miss Denmark - Trine Lundgaard
Trine’s face below does not appear to be very masculine, but as I have pointed out elsewhere, the fine facial features disproportionately seen in Northern Europeans can be confounded with feminization, and a quick look at Trine’s physique leaves no doubt that she is a masculine woman.
Miss England - Hammasa Kohistani
Miss France - Cindy Fabre
Miss Greece - Aikaterini Stikoudi
Miss Ireland - Aoife Mary Cogan
Miss Italy - Sofia Bruscoli
Miss Macedonia - Milena Stanivukovich
Miss Malawi - Rachel Landson Phiri
Miss Malta - Ferdine Irma Fava
Miss Netherlands - Monique Plat
Miss New Zealand - Kay Margaret Anderson
Miss Panama - Anna Isabella Vaprio Medaglia
Miss Romania - Raluca Voina
Miss Russia - Yulia Ivanova
Miss Scotland - Aisling Nuala Friel
Miss Serbia & Montenegro - Dina Dzankovic
Miss Slovakia - Ivica Slavikova
Miss Spain - Mireia Verdú Tremosa
Miss Sweden - Liza Berggren
Miss Switzerland - Lauriane Gilliéron
Miss Ukraine - Yuliya Pinchuk
Miss Wales - Claire Evans
As if masculinized contestants are not bad enough, some of the contestants even look like male transvestites or male-to-female transsexuals; their breasts are token breasts, which may be fake, and hardly make them look feminine:
Miss Belgium - Tatiana Silva Braga Tavares
Tatiana is the one in the middle.
Miss India - Sindhura Gadde
Miss Israel - Keren Shacham
Miss Martinique - Moana Sarann Robinel
Miss Nepal - Sugarika K.C.
Miss St. Lucia - Joy Matty
Miss Trinidad & Tobago - Jenna Marie Andre
Miss Turkey - Hande Subasi
Miss Venezuela - Berliz Susan Carrizo Escandela
The geographical distribution of the women flagged for being excessively masculinized -- in so far as participating in a high profile beauty contest is concerned -- is shown in the table below.
Group |
Number flagged |
Number of participants |
Asia |
04 |
17 |
Northern Europe |
12 |
19 |
Southern Europe |
14 |
23 |
Americas |
05 |
17 |
Africa |
01 |
15 |
Caribbean |
04 |
11 |
Total |
40 |
102 |
The number of flagged women by no means precisely reflects the number of women with excessive masculinization -- in so far as participating in a high profile beauty contest is concerned -- since clear photos of the pageant participants are often not easily available, and I got tired of searching for clear pictures. In some cases, it has not been easy to assign a rough level of masculinization based on the available photographs. For instance, Miss Malta, Ferdine Irma Fava, looks like a male transvestite in some pictures and a woman in some others. Additionally, it is not very clear whether the robust facial features of Miss England, Hammasa Kohistani, represent masculinization or elements of non-white ancestry unrelated to masculinity-femininity.
Nevertheless, some statements about the looks of the participants in the 2005 Miss World pageant can be described as clearly evident. For instance, the prevalence of masculinized women is very high and there is a non-trivial number of women who look like male transvestites or male-to-female transsexuals. Additionally, the highest prevalence of masculinized contestants is found among participants from European nations and the lowest prevalence among women from African and Asian nations. Also, the participants who have not been flagged do not necessarily have impressive looks or are feminine. These statements by no means apply to just the 2005 Miss World pageant, but are true of present-day beauty pageants in general in the Western World; I have previously addressed a similar picture in the 2002 Miss Germany pageant.
If asked to explain how a high profile beauty contest can feature women as in the examples above, Miss World Organization will simply dismiss the assertion that its pageant participants mostly have unimpressive looks and that too many of them have excessive masculinization. However, if Miss World Organization could be made to confront anthropological evidence regarding masculinity-femininity, compare its white pageant participants with the attractive white women shown within this site and be forced to explain the looks of its pageant participants, it will likely pass the blame to the nations sending women to the Miss World pageant. On the other hand, beauty pageant organizations in different nations select women for the Miss World pageant using criteria that are most likely to have their women emerge on top in the pageant. So who is responsible for these criteria?
It is easy to see that the high prevalence of unimpressive looks among the pageant participants can be blamed upon political correctness and masculinization in many contestants. Those who have read this site well enough should have no difficulty explaining the high prevalence of masculinization among the pageant participants, namely that pageant contestants are judged using physical appearance standards that approach the looks of women having the highest status among models, i.e., high-fashion models, and the typical masculine looks of high-fashion models result from the gay domination of the top ranks of the fashion business.
Among continental groups, the highest proportion of masculinized women was found in the European group, and this appears to be best explained in terms of the greater freedom enjoyed by homosexuals in the West, whereby the impact of male homosexuals is clearly seen in the fashion business and a non-trivial number of homosexual men work behind the scenes in beauty pageants. The latter could be seen as a premature conclusion based on a single dataset, but whereas this essay addresses a single dataset, similar observations would be well-known to those familiar with equivalent beauty pageants in recent years.
On the other hand, whereas the highest prevalence of masculinized women is seen among the participants from Europe, no white women are seen among the participants who look like male transvestites or male-to-female transsexuals. This is not necessarily a fluke. Whites, on average, have finer facial features than non-whites, and since feminization corresponds to increased gracilization, gracilization resulting from factors unrelated to sex hormones [and in the male, Y-chromosome genes that map to male-specific growth] can easily be confounded with gracilization resulting from feminization. Therefore, more often than not, when one comes across white and non-white women with the same level of masculinization, the faces of white women will look more feminine.
For instance, compare the facial features and physique of Miss Netherlands (Monique Plat) with Miss Israel (Keren Shacham) below. In both women, above average masculinization is easily seen, and if anything, Monique Plat appears to be more masculine overall. However, the facial features of Monique Plat reflect the finer features disproportionately seen in Northern Europeans, whereas the facial features of Keren Shacham reflect the more robust features disproportionately seen in Middle Eastern women. Elaborating on this here would be digressing from the central topic of this essay, and I will address this issue later. Anyway, Miss World Organization had best be emphasizing feminine beauty more if it wants more than a small number of people in the West to be interested in the Miss World pageant.
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