2.03 Beauty Pageant

Minutes of today’s meeting: Nora and Jill reduce the subjective quality of physical beauty to a number and dehumanize all women in the process, debunk elementary school myths about George Washington Carver, examine Louis Cop K., and identify Dulé Hill’s most important role.

Further reading:

¿Por qué no los dos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqgSO8_cRio

Madeline Albright’s pins: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/madeleine-albright-on-her-life-in-pins-149191/

Inside Amy Schumer does 12 Angry Men (like everything Amy Schumer does, this is very NSFW): http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/inside-amy-schumer/videos/12-angry-men-inside-amy-schumer

Beauty pageants and the American political climate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/22/how-beauty-pageants-reflect-the-same-changes-as-trumps-immigration-orders-do/?utm_term=.d7592791f6b7

Where did the NBC chimes come from? http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/nbc-chimes-behind-scenes-first-trademarked-sound/