More people talked about the "Miss Universe" pageant than actually watched it, which is typical of us and the event.
All in all, this is a tiring three-and-a-half-hour broadcast that sparks an effort to prove that it's more than a beauty pageant, even though that's basically all it is.
Miss Universe is a time travel in the 1950s - an event that understands it is irrelevant, but continues as usual until the latter turns off the light.
The ceremony, which took place on Tuesday night in Eilat and was broadcast on the yes Drama channel, was sparkling and sweet.
Mythical presenter, Steve Harvey, told "my wife" jokes as if he were Danny Ceviche, and introduced us to his daughter who was given a chair on the judging panel.
Dozens of girls from around the world scattered bombastic remarks about fraternity and feminism, climate change, body contempt, vaccine support and aspirations for world peace, and in the end the winner was the one who imitated a cat.
As can be understood from the nature of Harvey's directive, which spoke directly to viewers of the American FOX network, the broadcaster has lost its international status, and ratings are in a continuing decline.
Apparently, a 30% drop in the number of viewers compared to 2019, brought in barely 2.7 million viewers in the US on Tuesday. That is.
In Israel, beauty pageants are currently held underground, and have been pushed from the prime time of commercial television to the Internet arena, because there is no right and true way to conduct such a pageant without wanting to.
Thus, the attempts to display the psychic powers of the girls, or their special character and social activism, are obscured in moments when they stood as mannequins, dressed in similar designs and / or swimsuits, and recited to us polished and ready answers.
Let's be real, the competition has never been a consensus.
For decades there have been claims that it is not a talent to be beautiful, or that it perpetuates a distorted beauty model.
For at least three years there has been a public debate in the U.S. and other countries about the future of the industry; at the same time, stories of sexism and sexual harassment have surfaced behind the scenes of these contests, and there are quite a few. Earth or Miss International).
It is clear that Miss Universe is irrelevant in 2021, but it rolled into Eilat, so it was an opportunity to ride the corpse.
Neta Barzilai announced that she refuses to perform, retired beauty queens like Linor Abergil and Liran Koehner came out against the competition, news reporter 13 Neria Kraus made sure to add a crooked eye and resentment to every report she sent from Eilat,
In retrospect, Rezbozov received consideration because the broadcaster was broadcasting a long commercial for tourism in the country.
During it, passages with the beauty queens were inserted between the landscapes of our country, in the desert, in markets, restaurants, on the beaches - and in all of them they play and have fun as if it were an advertisement for sanitary pads.
Like a properly made tourist trap, it's just a shame the sky is closed and domestic tourism goes bankrupt.
So everyone complained, and somehow everyone benefited.
Explanations against the object were heard in the media, the organizers produced a successful ceremony, Israel gained positive publicity, a forgotten past kingdom made headlines, Noa Kirl added followers in Tiktok, and the cat imitator returned home with the crown.
Were we wrong?
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