The Loss of Beauty Pageants

Let me post an excerpt from PEP that I read about the transcript of No.15's answer for the Q&A,

THE BOOBOO. Janina initially wowed the audience when she confidently told the pageant host Paolo Bediones, "No, I don't feel any pressure right now."

However, Janina looked like she had a hard time maintaining this impression when one of the judges, Ms. Vivienne Tan, asked her the question, "What role did your family play to you as candidate to Binibining Pilipinas?"

When she answered the question, Janina started to show some nervousness, which caused her to lose her focus and started speaking in atrocious English. She replied, "Well, my family's role for me is so important because there was the wa... They're... They was the one who's very..." then, she laughed upon realizing her mistakes.

Trying to keep herself calm and composed, Janina continued, "I'm so sorry, Ahhmm... My pamily... My family... Oh my god... I'm... Ok, I'm so sorry... I... I told you that I'm so confident... 'Eto, wait..." This was followed with a laugh again after realizing that she uttered a Tagalog word.

Despite the blunder, Janina managed to finish answering the question. As if asking the audience to understand her, Janina went on saying, "Sorry guys because this was really my first pageant ever because I'm only 17 years old. I did not expect that I came from, I came from one of the top [which she pronounced as "tough"] ten. So... But I said that my family is the most important persons in my life. Thank you."


I had my tirades of joining pageants, so I have a tiny right to comment about her 'show'.

In these kinds of 'contests/pageants' its a prerogative for you to have a sense of thought or opinions, not necessarily about everything but, 'some' will do as long as its comprehensible and coherent. And by winning, apparently you will become the delegate or the representative of our country for international pageants--I am confident that the Phils. has the beauty &brains package.

When answering questions, go directly to the point. Do not blabber OR EVEN make excuses on how incompetent you turned out to be (she said she was just 17 and its her first time), for God sakes! You should have the decency to at least, learn some training when you joined the Bb. Pilipinas.

To Jenina, you should have waited and joined more pageants before you did the big one. The little contests gives you a perspective and right training on what you should present to the audience and the judges. Pageants like such doesn't concentrate on your body statistics and how good you look--it always needs to have something behind the superficial, Brains.

I'm outraged by your senselessness.