THE 6th MISS INTERNATIONAL TITLE FOR THE PHILIPPINES: Kylie Versoza is Miss International 2016

The Philippines has just won its 6th Miss International title in Tokyo. Miss Philippines-International 2016 Kylie Versoza is bringing home the crown, the latest in a now rather long list of victories in international beauty contests by Pinay representatives. The various Pinay Misses dislodged the Venezuelans last year as the powerhouse winners of international beauty contests when they won the most crowns. It appears the Philippines will repeat the feat this year: so far, the Philippines has won 4 in 5 contests this year (winning 4 crowns: Miss Asia, Miss United Continents, Mrs. Grandma Universe and Miss International, & getting the first runner-up in the 5th: Miss Grand International) and that, even before the beauty pageant season has started in earnest. 

Asian elegance, Latin sex appeal. The Filipina beauty for you.

Typical Pinay Beauty: Centuries of Diversity

I unwittingly stirred a minor Hornet's nest in my preceding post. I myself was surprised by the direction of the discussion in the comments.That's what you get when shallow interests tinker with ghosts which were better off left  hibernating beneath the ground. It could have been avoided with a little more common sense.

For one, it's wiser not to use the terms "typical Pinay beauty" because of the stable melting pot we have in the country. We don't have to parrot the pretentious discourse on Diversity elsewhere just to be trendy because we have been diversified long ago in our history. It became plain stupidity when the phrase "typical Pinay beauty" was used with an entirely erroneous meaning- worst,  describing something as "typical" just to advance subliminally a false narrative. The ulterior motive was obvious, only a moron won't have noticed the "racist"campaigns for a better part of the last decade which were mostly  just ignored because they were so ridiculous.

Well, let's just celebrate Pinay beauty. With that, I will have a few days vacation.

KYLIE VERSOZA, JENNIFER HAMMOND, JOANNA EDEN,
 NICOLE CORDOVES, NICOLE MANALO

BEAUTIFUL PINAY MONITOR: Kylie Versoza is not from Myanmar

A friend loves to monitor the various international  beauty pageant blogs (he's a linguist like me so he scours all the continents, from Latin America to Asia to Europe). The Philippine beauty pageant circuit has become a landmark in the world and it appears most of them even watched online the just recently concluded Bb. Pilipinas pageant. It turned out they were unanimous in their  low opinion of the winner, Maxine Medina. Mostly they were happy because our representative to this year's Miss Universe is "ugly". Frankly, I almost thought so myself (I found her ordinary but not exactly ugly) but it was strangely heartening that so many shared my "not impressed" reaction.

What mystifies me now is the description used in some local media to describe the winner as "typical Pinay beauty". If she was typical Pinay beauty, then what do you make of a "typical Myanmar beauty"? Because as one German opined "She might look like a Miss Myanmar but she might still win again because the MU might be held in the Philippines this year".

So even a German knows how a "typical Pinay beauty" looks like. Of course, nobody thinks much these days about salaried media underlings trying to inject subliminal messages on how Pinoys should suddenly look like in a "certain" Asian way. The usual promotional campaign for slit-eyes which has been hectic for years now (while in the Asian mainland, they are busy repairing theirs that their celebrities now look like "typical Pinay beauties"). Useless anyway.

Of course, mostly the international beauty blogs sighed with relief that Kylie Versoza didn't win the Bb. Pilipinas Universe crown. They mostly considered her as the threat. 

How about becoming the next hot actress instead?