It has often been said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however, there are often those rare jewels that everyone agrees are a force to be reckoned with. Those, I believe are the kind of women people want to see in pageants. If this wasn’t clear before – the new Miss Zimbabwe, Emily Tatanga Kachote has just proven that hypothesis true. Over the past few days since her crowning, people have been on her case as if she were the bearer of Ebola!
The social networks have been awash with insults at the “innocent” girl for having been chosen when some believe she did not deserve it.
Many are of the opinion that to say she is ugly is an understatement. Memes have been spread, and comparisons of herself and other beauty queens have been made. Of course Emily has not been without supporters.
The pro-Emilys have too been hailing their own insults. Not at the new Queen but at her opposers. A good number of them have expressed their disappointment at people always mocking everything Zimbabwean, never supporting and ever thinking that ‘black is not beautiful’. Former Miss Zimbabwe Malaika Mushandu was even quoted by one blog saying that Miss World wasn’t all about beauty but about a whole list of things that the models are required to do that contribute to a model winning or losing.
(I wonder if this was her subtle way of agreeing with Emily’s haters *wink wink*)
Anyway, this brings up that issue to do with what the definition of beauty is. Have pageants moved away from the general belief of what beauty is? Seeing as it also consists of brains, talents and that whole list of requirements does it mean that it is impossible to find beautiful, tall, slim and intelligent girls in Zimbabwe?
Because for someone who is meant to represent the country, it does make sense that the public should be happy with the judges’ choice right?
Let’s say the public is not happy, should they not be allowed to air out their views?
What happened to free speech? But let’s assume that people have gone too far as some are suggesting, is there any such thing as going too far? What determines that? Because by putting herself out there and becoming a public figure – Emily took the risk of either being loved or disliked by her people. And as a public figure, one has to be prepared for anything and work that skin till it’s thick enough to not care at all.
But is the new Miss Zimbabwe ugly? Some say that she is simply because she is very dark skinned and juxtapositioning her with Miss South Africa did not help at all. But then, who ever said we could not have hot black women? Only problem is that we have never had the beautiful/ugly debate where the likes of Gabrielle Union, Genevive Nnaji and Naomi Campbell are concerned.
Miss Zimbabwe Trust must be weary by now. They cannot seem to make the nation happy. Last year it was about the countless Miss Zimbabwe scandals and this year it is about one considered not good enough – will it ever get better? We just hope Emily doesn’t have any damaging skeletons in her closet because after such a nasty start – we cannot have another saga.
But the questions still remain; did the judges make a good choice? And maybe it’s just a few haters out there making the most noise -what’s your view? Is the girl beautiful or not? And does she stand a chance at the Miss World?
http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Zimbabweans-come-to-defence-of-ugly-beauty-queen-20150428
