Is the Miss France Pageant sexist?

[Anonymous]

Leah Dolan (CNN) reports that Miss France, the country's 101-year-old beauty pageant, is being sued by a feminist activist group and three unsuccessful applicants over alleged discriminatory entry requirements.

Discrimination against employees on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, family situation or genetic characteristics is considered unlawful in France. A 2021 application form for the national beauty pageant revealed candidates would not be considered if they were not at least 5-foot-5, or if they had ever been married or had children.

Further disqualifiers for potential contestants include wearing weaves or hair extensions, having tattoos and smoking. The application also asks for clothing size, and it requests that prospective beauty queens do not undergo any major physical changes after they are accepted into the competition. Failing to comply could land the contestant with a 5,000-euro ($5,822) fine, according to Miss France's terms and conditions.

In your view, is this sexist? Winners of the competition are said to be considered employees of the organization once they win.

Yes, this is sexist

No, this is not sexist

Literally every beauty pageant is sexist

[DaisyM23]

i like watching the miss world/universe pageants for the dresses but anyways... i think there's been a major shift in pageants like this, i don't know about smaller ones but if you watch miss world/universe you'd actually see that all of the women involved do a lot of charity work, bring attention to plenty of issues and work hard - it's not about judging their bodies although they do uphold society's beauty standards which isn't all that, but it's also about judging their style, their answers to hard political type questions, their walks etc - they're basically models

[Adaeva]

Of course it is not sexist. Those are reasonable standards.

[Summeroflove]

Don’t even get me started with that shit. Feminist activists groups don’t give a fuck about when. While men are winning pageants and the feminists are nowhere to be found. Unless they’re supporting it.


I feel horrible for the women who actually spent time and effort on this and were screwed out of the competition and couldn’t advance because of this guy.


He wasn’t even good looking. He looked like Shrek. He obviously won for political reasons. It’s like the kid in the wheel chair winning the context at field day

[KrakenAttackin]

Just don't care. If you feel it's sexist, don't participate.

[OlderAndWiser]

I really don't GAF if it's sexist.

[Cassie88]

It's considered to be "sexist" because they actually have (oh the horror!) standards?

[KostasKouvalis]

It''s a fucking MISS FRANCE pagent! Who the fuck else is supposed to be in it?

[Anonymous]

No its not sexist. Is it sexist if a guy can't be a professional female body inspector? Thats also discrimination based on gender right?

[Anonymous]

Is there ANYTHING that isn't considered sexist today?

[jshm2]

Rules are rules.

[ManHater]

nope