The web voting for Miss Landmine Angola is open until April 3, 2008.
I couldn't help feeling slightly uncomfortable with this at first. Raising awareness and questioning old concepts is great - but organising a beauty contest; is that a new concept? Even if the pageants are far from mainstream beauty queens. Of course I think ladies can be beautiful even without a leg or two. But it does not lead to the conclusion that ladies – in general, anywhere – should be beautiful.
On the website they say this campaign is to
* Question established concepts of physical perfection.
* Challenge old and ingrown concepts of cultural cooperation.
* Celebrate true beauty.
* Replace the passive term 'Victim' with the active term 'Survivor'.
Among other things. There you can also find quite a lot of information on landmines and campaigns against them.
Ok, fine. Go, girls, go!
(I got the hint from Ajatusten Rekolanoja. Thanks!)
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