12 Woke Tweets From Miss Lebanon 2018

Take a look at the setting we were in while we watched Miss Lebanon: probably slouching on a couch, munching on snacks, our smartphones in hand to catch up with the latest Tweets and Instagram stories. We were either criticizing or reading disparaging comments about how the contestants looked and spoke.

To put things into perspective, the politics of beauty pageants are inherently wrong. The system encourages rating culture, misogyny, reinforces unrealistic or unattainable beauty ideals, facilitates the objectification of women, and on and on. But most importantly it puts the contestants in stressful positions. Imagine your level of self-consciousness when a national patriarchal gaze is scanning every inch of your body and behavior. A little less comfortable than taking a generous bite from a cheeseburger before spurting a “Min 3emela hwejeba?” , “zakiyeh bess tal3a vulgaire” or ” ouf adde dahakna iza we23it? .

Here is a compilation of WOKE tweets we found about Miss Lebanon 2018 that we can take as a lesson.

1.

Using sick people and the elderly for promoting a beauty pageant contestants is not at all inspiring.

— Maria. (@theunusualM) September 30, 2018

2.

Whether a fan of beauty pageants or not, Lebanon anticipates tonight’s much-awaited #MissLebanon2018 . Memes, comments, and criticism; everyone’s free to be involved however they want, but let’s hope everyone remains respectful to the human beings participating in the contest.

— Khaled Abdul Jawad (@KhaledAJ) September 30, 2018

3.

How sad that corruption and politics do not bring the lebanese people together, but a pageant as superficial as Miss Lebanon does. Of course, why miss an opportunity of mocking people and bringing them down #shame

— Alex (@AlexMaalouf) October 1, 2018

4.

How much better would it have been if @mtvlebanon didn’t do Miss Lebanon this year and instead donated all the prizes in cash to helping the previous contestant Michele Hajal fight her battle with non hodgkins lymphoma?

— Ink On The Side (@sareen_ak) October 1, 2018

5.

Beauty is such a fickle concept because you have nothing to do with creating it, yet still get all the praise for it.

— endless blankets (@christinafakhry) September 30, 2018

6.

Twitter went into Miss Lebanon to make fun of the contestants, little did they know they were gonna end up arguing on who should’ve won it. Therefore living up to the actual goal of the program. Twitter you ain’t special 😖

— Thee Thohmasees (@Thomasemaan) October 1, 2018

7.

Isn’t Miss Lebanon suppose to look Arab and be a middle eastern badass since you know we are middle eastern Arabs? And she’s suppose to be representing the beauty we actually have unlike the minority that look like Maya?

— Nadia (@socialnediaa) September 30, 2018

8.

– Gebran Bassil: *adds Miss Lebanon 2018 to his resume*
XD#MissLebanon2018#إنجازات_العهد_الجديد

— Lary BS (@Larybs) October 1, 2018

9.

Lebanese Twitter #MissLebanon2018 pic.twitter.com/K2KGzq7r2S

— NT (@nadimtr7) September 30, 2018

10.

Some cant give a presentation in front of 10 people at university about their fav nail polish and they are accusing Miss Lebanon contenders of being stupid… #minmekhde

— Ball out (@Balloutium) October 1, 2018

11.

These girls really out here parading their bodies for validation from people like Adel Karam.

— Lynn (@LynnSM7) September 30, 2018

12.

It’s really sad when we get a lot of hype for miss lebanon, but barely any for real cases like kids in Yemen starving, or Palestinians getting killed daily for defending their land

— m a r i a (@MariaSalem29) October 1, 2018