Not in this day and age. People willingly put themselves in much more pain than a needle in the arm. They get tatoos,filler and botox at the drop of a hat, endure laser treatments just to get rid of leg hair. This must feel like nothing.

It used to be that when you had an injury or operation you were kept in the hospital until you were clearly on your way to recovery. That meant you were probably on stuff not much stronger than over-the-counter medicine by then. Now they send patients home still in serious pain with strong pain-killers and no one to…

This is me being the cynic that I am but if a man told me he was going out of his way to hire pageant participants because of the qualities you mentioned I'd be suspicious. Those who participate in student government and the debating society could be described the same way perhaps even more so therefore I'd wonder…

Since-to our knowledge- none of the Cosby kids were abused, I think keeping or dumping the show was a choice based on income for the networks, cable companies,etc. if they think sales, ad revenues, subscriptions will be lost they dump the show.Touched by Angel was ditched without a hint of scandal being in the air.If…

Thank-you.You made interesting points, I'm not in the USA so my reaction to having the pageant on tv was," not that show where the girls fight to be told which is prettiest- are they going to have them catfight next,what else is on?" I didn't think they would always be superficial though, just that they were at that…

Seriously? You’re taking me to task for thinking that people-dolls can be male and female- who to my outsider eyes seem to be all about using their looks to get ahead are superficial? Lots of people who answered me had great points about the benefits of participating and that’s what I was hoping to find out:…

I haven’t seen that show in a while but if I recall correctly viewers were supposed to learn how to be in the world as the laughed.Knowing that he even lured victims with promises of roles on the show-and knowing about the Hollywood casting couch- can people get what they were supposed to get from that show now?For…

I’m very glad they spoke up but they’re doing it a bit late in the game and at a point where some might call for the whole thing to be cancelled if they didn’t distance themselves- so it seems a bit self-serving.Obviously it’s not their fault if the guy who bought their pageant is a creep but his nastiness has been…

I know that some women who are famous were once beauty queens but aside from Vanessa Williams wasn’t their participation in pageants revealed long after they were famous?By that I mean that I got the impression it wasn't what jump started their career so it was an activity like any other.I guess I don't know about…

But, does anyone look at a beauty queen as anything more than a living doll? I don’t remember ever seeing one and thinking she’d accomplished anything of note either for herself or anyone else.Even the scholarship excuse sounds lame, if they put as much effort in studying as they do in primping their grades would get…

Bah, some punishment.The show was on the air for 8 years,they got paid then for actual work plus reruns and then 20 more years of reruns, syndication and who else knows what.If they didn’t sock some of that away it means they were planning to live off what they only did for 8 years where they worked only half the time…

Pretty weird that no one asks if he took Quaaludes since that answer would make it crystal clear. If you bought drugs to get high for sex it means both partners unless you're a pervert.

Not sure this is a step forward for democracy. Campaign workers, interns etc. usually have only their expenses reimbursed and the reference as "payment". If politicians now have to pay interns to follow Clinton's lead that means needing to raise even more money and being beholden to more donors.

The problem with separating art from the man in this case is that he is part of his art.He plays the model husband, father and citizen on his show and you can't watch him do that while knowing he was nothing of the sort even though he implied that Huxtable was loosely based on situations from his family. I don't watch…

This difference is caused by the protective effect of melanin, added to black people not needing to damage their skin by tanning and usually having more defined bone structures to keep skin in place even when collagen braks down with age. But, at the age most models have a career the only difference a make-up artist…

Iman started working in the seventies, she may have been the first black model some who worked with her ever saw but this is 40years and countless black models later. You can’t even see a Walmart flyer without black people in it, do you think there are separate teams working on each race before taking pics.If some guy…

The thing is that she's not discussing some make-up artist in a backwater.Any town with enough of a fashion industry to have models coming in from all over the world for a fashion show or shoot also has cosmetology and hairdressing classes that not only cover doing make-up and hair for all races but require students…

Personally,I wouldn’t point out that my job could be done more effectively by a computer.

Even in my highschool cosmetology class which only lasted 4 months we covered how to do make-up for all races.I can't imagine a pro class doesn't cover how to do it and as to where to buy darker shade?just look at the rest of the display case for many major brands.

There’s nothing startling about Republican politicians rejecting such programs: you can’t convince them with facts they already knew.They know better than anyone what it takes to get out of poverty: that’s why they know what to oppose in order to maintain a large, desperate underclass in America and in the countries…