As someone who also teaches in the college classroom, I’ll first say don’t beat yourself up too much over #2; I too have had a lot of moments in the classroom when I feel I really failed to help students interrogate something racially loaded. I think it’s something you get slowly better at, with practice.

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Yeah, it’s certainly different from the culture in the US, where only a small subset is interested in something like the pageant.

You’re right! Damn SCOTUS.

Right? We can mock her diction all the live-long day (and I shall), but she usually has a decent pitch.

Oh dear lord, this was painful to listen to. (Doesn’t she have onstage monitors? Major pitch issues.)

Actually, this case is notable for bringing the first criminal (not civil) charges against Cosby, so that can’t be it. Hmm.

Not to mention it was done in an insanely humiliating way. I’d be pretty salty, too.

It’s almost terrifying, isn’t it?

To your last point, actually, winning the pageant usually leads them to lucrative job offers and jump starts their career. (The CNN article linked from this piece indicates that Gutierrez is already getting some job offers for being runner-up.)

Completely agreed. Though I wonder where the words “great injustice” came from—was the interview conducted in Spanish, or in English?

Yeah, I can see that (though it turns out her moment was still kind of ruined anyway since she was uncomfortable AF and Gutierrez was crying off to the side, surrounded by the other contestants!).

Am I the only person who thought the show’s producer was nuts not to fix the mess-up backstage, rather than have Gutierrez endure a very humiliating, public transfer of the crown? (I guess it sounds like Gutierrez kind of agrees with me, since she thought a press conference was a more appropriate place to correct the…

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Will miss reading your lovely, silly, occasionally gross things! Would love to be ungreyed if you still have the stamina (78 replies!!).

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