Carrie Prejean Is Traditional, Enhanced
Somewhere along the way, “traditional” became synonymous with “stuffy.”
Carrie Prejean may or may not be traditional, but she’s certainly not stuffy – and the fact that she can be one and not the other shocks the collective conscience.
The Miss USA contestant, having just become a gay marriage opponent extraordinaire, is already perched for her fall from grace – which our founding editor hopes will be into his arms.
That’s because Prejean had the audacity to not only get breast implants, but (worse) to get them gratis.
California pageant official Shanna Moakler (erstwhile object of our reality tv preoccupation) has admitted that her organization gifted Prejean with her enhanced funbags.
Because Prejean purports to be “traditional,” the origin of her boobs is an issue. Traditional women are stuffy, and stuffy women don’t get fake boobs. Or so goes the thinking.
Now, national sensibilities have been assaulted.
People are invoking the notion of hypocrisy, even if they haven’t quite said the word.
America feels duped.
Here’s a woman who not only got implants but flaunts them professionally, and here’s a woman who speaks of marriage in terms of its “sanctity” and its value as an “institution.” Here’s a woman who’s as frivolous as she is pragmatic, as saucy as she is demure. She’s a provocative prude, and the world can’t help but drool over the incongruity.
It’s a welcome juxtaposition, but an artificial one.
What, after all, is more traditional than vanity, self-aggrandizement, and sex? That those aren’t “proper” doesn’t mean that they aren’t traditional. Especially for women, there is a hallmark tradition of illusion and chimera. The only difference is that we’re better at it now than ever. Illusion has been crystallized into permanence. Traditional women aren’t luddites, and besides, corsets were constricting. Tradition has become more efficient, is all.
No, it’s not stuffy, and neither is Carries Prejean. But it’s definitely traditional, and she’s as much that as she ever was.
Comments
By Bombthrower on May 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 am
It’s California….who has real breasts in California? All the Miss USA contestants (and the majority of California residents) are in the boob enhancing capital of the world. For all you claim to know, pageants aint one of them. Stick to what you know (which is very little).
By Impressed on May 3rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
You may well just have taught a gaggle of salivating bozos what “incongruity” means.
By Animal Rights Activist on May 6th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Don’t blame homosexuals and animalsexuals, insectsexuals, dollsexuals, etc. They just love differently than other people.