Miss Santa Cruz Protest and Beauty Pageants
Contrary to your statement, adolescent fantasies do not “die the first time someone twists an ankle” or fails in a local beauty pageant. Public images invite identification for the adolescent, and such identifications remain vivid and exert pressures on development for years, or lifetimes.
Evidence that the price for a 23-inch waist is far more malignant than relinquishing ice cream may be readily secured by checking the records of in-patient psychiatric units or psychotherapists offices.
Miss Santa Cruz also trained for her right to express a valid opinion, and did it with dignity and sincerity.
JO ANN B. FINEMAN MD
Rancho Palos Verdes
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