Salon.com > Kate Shindle http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Running low on role models http://www.salon.com/2006/12/26/conner/ http://www.salon.com/2006/12/26/conner/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2006/12/26/conner 2006 may well be remembered as the year of the out-of-control starlet, and the world of beauty pageants has not found itself exempt from this phenomenon. For the past week, people have been asking me what I thought about the firestorm of publicity surrounding Miss USA. That's fair; when a pageant-related scandal makes news and there's a Miss America in the room (1998, in my case), I usually get the nod. Even among those who loathe the very idea of beauty pageants, a morbid curiosity is stirred by the annual anointing of an "ideal" by the various organizations -- and glee when she fails to live up to expectations. But I've been hesitant, mostly because people are looking for a quick and dishy comment, not my personal manifesto on the dangers of being a young role model in an age of celebrity worship.

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