You Voted! Pole Dancing Miss USA Should Keep Her Crown
Newly crowned Miss USA Rima Fakih won a pole dancing contest in 2007 -- but she shouldn't be stripped of her title, 59 percent of UsMagazine.com and AskMen.com readers agree.
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"Miss USA isnt casting for nuns... how an individual chooses to live their life and how that life is plastered on the media screens are two different parallels," writes commenter Hala Mansour on UsMagazine.com.
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Jokes AskMen.com reader Ed, "Pole dancing is a fitness trend, and I think if anything, it gives me more respect for her. Rock on Rima!"
But Us reader anonymous disagrees. "Where's the respect and decency of women? Why do women have to trash themselves? When one is crowed Miss USA, she is representing the nation. And by doing pole dancing in public, [she] is trashing the image of a lady."
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Says AskMen.com's Mr. Ed, "I am getting sick and tired of every scandal this organization produces." (Contestants were criticized for posing in sexy lingerie on the pageant's Web site; in 2009, Miss USA finalist Carrie Prejean was stripped of her Miss California title after topless photos of her surfaced.)
"Enough already with the over sexualizing of women. This outdated sexist idea should be done away with. Whatever happened to classiness? Did it go away in return for a stripper's pole? Is this what America tells the world about it's women?" continues Mr. Ed.
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It makes no difference to AskMen.com reader YLW. "Beauty pageant winner, stripper, don't see much difference. They're both objectified for their physical assets. At least strippers also know how to move."
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If she can keep her title then why was Vanessa Willams stripped of her title and what about Ms California last year. Rules should not be any different for her than they have been for the past contestants.
PS- she may have participated in a pole dancing contest, but hey, atleast she knows how to answer questions to a judge. And atleast she pole dances with her clothes on, Miss California hated on homosexuals infront of a gay judge, stuck Jesus down everyone's throat and then BAM! A sex tape comes along. ;)
Alright, we get it, she's not originally American- so what? Neither is 99.9% of the American population. Besides, the whole point of a free America is that we don't discriminate when picking people. We made history with a black president, what's wrong with an Arab-American MISS USA? Also, if her being Arab is such a big deal, then why the f**k is everyone so up Kim Kardashian's a*s? She's Armenian, so where is the difference xactly?
I want a poll on whether or not us "US READERS" want to read about Kim Kardashian. I'm sick of reading about Kim and her pathetic, wasted life!
Raise your own children people. Used to be a role model was a teacher, a preacher some one you KNEW morally.. You put strangers in charge of teaching your children right and wrong because they are pretty or have a cool job????? and you question HER morality?
Ok my view on it....stripper pole dance classes are being taken by housewives accross the land. It woud be different if the girl was prancing around with tassels and thong... she was in a class... We make celebrities out to be heroes and role models.. This girl is no better or worse than anyone else her age.. And if people dont like that.. Why dont you change americas values one person at a time...starting with your on children. I have never heard so much cr@p from people talking about role models Shouldnt the requisit of being a role model be people you know? Is the only requisit that the person be famous or rich? Come on get off your butts seem like people who try to pass off parental responsibility to strangers have worse things to deal with first than to judge other people... try your a bad parent!
Its really sad that, our new Miss USA is showing our daughters that it is ok to get up and dance on a stripper pole. What is happening. First we get a Miss America that is a druggy and showing our daughters that doing drugs is ok, now this. It is shameful, and I thinkg that This chick should be removed from our miss USA.
leave that girl alone!!!! if she were a blond haired blue eyed bombshell she would not be getting all this unnecesary attention. or a burnette at that. leave her the f alone. she's human!!!
Most people wanting her title taken away just envy her. She's beautiful with a slamming body. Get over the fact that she is ARAB American. She beat all other 50 girls. Shes human and she cant please everyone.
No, she shouldn't keep her crown, it's Miss USA, not Miss whatever country you're from. She's not American, she shouldn't represent our country as Miss USA. Sorry if it sounds discriminatory, but this is the US, not her home country.... She shouldn't hold the Miss USA crown
She's clothed and dancing on a pole in 2007. If she was a career stripper, I could understand the 'to-do'. Get over it. She was young and did something fun and won! What's next, are we checking their report cards to make sure they had all a's?
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To "I'm not Recep's Girlfriend" - holy crap get a life you idiot!!! you sound like an idiot on here... you're obviously just jealous and highly insecure because Rima is a beautiful woman and totally in shape and thin as can be so for you to say that she is fat??? OMG you're just laughable!! Please spare us with your stupidity you moron!!
My god people, she is only human, so what if she had some fun before she was Miss USA and so what she slipped on stage, does not make her any less of a person.. What has this world come too!
i understand people not liking celebs but can we please stop calling people fat and ugly when they clearly are not. it just makes the commenters look petty and stupid. she's not ugly or fat (on the outside) just made stupid decisions than came back to bite her in the rear.
All these Miss USA's Are slores anyway!
Terrible choice for Miss USA. She acted so stupid and couldn't even walk during evening gown. Now we find out she's a pole dancer. Trashy and stupid. I'm so proud of our Miss USA.
where is the comment i posted!!!!!
she is muslim? that is surprising. women in this country love to be objects of ppls affections as well as be so called sexy, there are no morals in this Yah forsaken country so it doesnt surprise me that she is keeping her title.