Post #31440 by martiki on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 3:40 PM

Jabbo- you dirty old man! :)

You know, I know I'm going to be thrown out of tiki central for saying this, or at the very least ridiculed by several (mostly male) members, but I was a little off-put by the whole bikini contest. When I read that it was going to be a part of Mondo, I was kind of disappointed. That really seemed like a spring-break-MTV-Cancun-parrothead-fratslob thing to do. I mean, aren't we past this kind of stuff? Sometimes, there's a performance/artisitc/camp element to these things, like the burlesque shows, but this is just drooling guys looking at skin. There are many fabulous things to celebrate about the 40s 50s and 60s, but I think "objectification of women" is probably one that we can leave behind. Of course, they were all volunteers, so what the fuck do I know? Sorry to all if I sound like a lame-o, it's just my 2 cents.

-martin