A channel as contemporary as a viral video helps me confirm that something I thought had long been gathering dust in the reserves of history still exists. I’m not talking so much about contests. lack ” as for this absurd procedure that candidates are subjected to: questions on subjects of a certain depth in order, let’s suppose, to demonstrate that they are not just “a pretty face”.
Model Lara Doval.
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It’s been almost a quarter of a century since Miss Special Agent He gracefully parodied this ordeal, which the young women in question tended to end with the wish for “world peace”. As luck would have it, the film arrived in Spanish cinemas almost at the same time as an episode was taking place that, from the point of view of the strictest reality, exceeded the degree of delirium that a Hollywood script can allow.
Elisabeth Martinez He couldn’t have guessed what he had planned for her. Boris Grigorievich. It looks like the beginning of a novel. the squarebut it actually describes the exchange that Miss Melilla had with the Russian ambassador during the contest to choose Miss Spain in 2001.
The diplomat asks the candidate what she can say about her country in about twenty-five words. Martínez’s face reflects the same terror that an engineering student would feel upon learning that the final exam would consist of parading in it next spring-summer.
The question must be asked for the question to be asked again. Between hesitations, he manages to continue:
“I know it’s a country with great people, there have been political changes and I don’t know much more. Thank you.”
Since 2013, Miss Universe Spain has been celebrated. It seems like a joke on the world map of Bilbao, but it is a competition that serves to choose the representative of our country in Miss Universe, since Miss Spain no longer exists as such.
Lara Doval is participating this year as Miss Catalunya. The problem of the decline in the birth rate in Spain has fallen on her, it’s nothing.
Perhaps this is the way forward for the survival of beauty pageants: to serve as a means of improving their EvAU scores.
The girl did what she could. Whether it was because of nervousness or some other reason irrelevant to the context, he always referred to something that resembled “notability.”
“The question of the decline of notability (sic) in Spain is having a strong impact on our society. It is something that makes us suffer and against which we must fight.”
And you, are you for or against fame? pic.twitter.com/em5RKFLcMi
– HONOR, STYLE AND TRADITION (@Nadal1902) September 13, 2024
Misfortune has served a purpose. We have confirmed that concern for mental health and the exaltation of empathy do not stop at failures. What a digital lynching. What a way to humiliate a young girl for skating in something that has absolutely nothing to do with the goal he had set for himself.
Today we woke up magnanimous. We are ready to compromise on whatever people want to do for the comfort of their advantage. Provided they are preceded by a recording of the author parading in his underwear..
Let’s see if we can all laugh like that.
