Miss California may be mean, but you may be worse

I know this opinion is going to be unpopular among my left-leaning audience but I don’t care…

Carrie Prejean, Miss California – the person everyone is so upset at for saying she doesn’t believe in gay marriage – may, in fact, be a better person than you!

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I’m really pissed off about this whole ordeal and I’m not even RECENTLY pissed off about all of this. I’ve been pissed since minute one, when this first hit the headlines.

Most of my anger is based on this simple premise:

If you can’t handle the answer, DON’T ASK THE QUESTION!

But my anger covers more than that and I’ll get into the other stuff first:

Miss Prejean was asked what she thought of gay marriage at a pageant – and her answer continues to piss people off. But I think all of those pissed off people should first take a good look at themselves, and then go cram a Q-tip in their ear until they go blind in one eye.

I’m almost as liberal as they come, and pro-gay as they come, and I disagree with her but that’s beside the point.

Pageants, as most intelligent people should know, are the most hideously shallow and exploitive events imaginable, and should have been abandoned years ago. They’re based on shallowness and enjoyed by shallow people for shallow reasons. Everyone who pretends otherwise is delusional.

And the upset fans?

Why, all of a sudden, are these fans who are, apparently, undisturbed by the rest of the shallow culture that enables this awful spectacle, suddenly outraged about one contestant’s political opinion?

Have they suddenly found a millimeter of depth in a sea that was shallow to begin with?

If one possesses the depth it takes to be outraged about the opposition to gay marriage then, dammit, why aren’t they outraged at the whole idea of pageants at all?

But even this sinks below the even more simple premise that, if you’re going to ask a question of someone, than you ought to be able to accept their answer, or at LEAST be able to accept two possible answers: “I’m for gay marriage” or “I’m against gay marriage.”

I mean, really folks, the whole question-and-answer thing was only included so everyone could pretend it was about something more than lovely tits and ass. But it isn’t anything more than that. The rest is just filler, so you should have just listened to her answer and went on judging her based on her looks like you were going to do anyway.

People who are pissed about her anti-gay answer need to evaluate themselves and come up with their own answer to this question: What sort of value system led you to be so invested in this pageant to begin with?

And what if only one answer was acceptable and every other answer led to public ridicule and potential public ruin?

I hesitate to put this in my conclusion because it should be so freakin’ obvious, but pageants shouldn’t be held at all because they’re offensive to the core. But as long as they’re going to be held, people should, at least be honest about it and judge these girls based on how their tits and asses look in a bathing suit instead of pretending to care what their talents are or how they answer questions.