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kpete

(72,904 posts) Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:53 AM Oct 2017

Peru Beauty pageant contestants list violence against women statistics instead of bra and waist size

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Peru Beauty pageant contestants list violence against women statistics instead of bra and waist size (Original Post) kpete Oct 2017 OP

:) struggle4progress Oct 2017 #1

Good treestar Oct 2017 #2

Kudos to those brave women, what an outstanding tactic against the War on Women. procon Oct 2017 #3

WOW -- they're expected to recite their measurements on stage ?? SRSLY ?? eppur_se_muova Oct 2017 #4

Excellent! Nitram Oct 2017 #5

EXCELLENT Skittles Nov 2017 #6

Absolutely genius!!! Shaming the men who do this to them. WOW! lindysalsagal Nov 2017 #7

struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)

1. :)

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:55 AM

Oct 2017

treestar

(82,383 posts)

2. Good

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 10:56 AM

Oct 2017

Beauty contests are a crock, but they are doing something good here

procon

(15,805 posts)

3. Kudos to those brave women, what an outstanding tactic against the War on Women.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:20 AM

Oct 2017

I'd love to see all the celebrity women who win awards come to the microphone and drop a statistic instead of name dropping all of the faceless VIPs they know.

eppur_se_muova

(42,507 posts)

4. WOW -- they're expected to recite their measurements on stage ?? SRSLY ??

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:22 AM

Oct 2017

Hope that doesn't give 45 any ideas.

Nitram

(28,064 posts)

5. Excellent!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:49 AM

Oct 2017

As an American, I'm rather proud of the way women (and men) in France, Peru and other nations have responded to the US "me too" campaign.

Skittles

(172,850 posts)

6. EXCELLENT

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Wed Nov 1, 2017, 06:14 AM

Nov 2017

lindysalsagal

(22,996 posts)

7. Absolutely genius!!! Shaming the men who do this to them. WOW!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 06:19 AM

Nov 2017

Wish I could hear the men's local reactions....

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