Male Beauty Contests

Re the commentary in support of beauty contests for women (Dec. 4), I am wondering why we don’t have male beauty contests. Men are certainly beautiful! Yet, we don’t see men parading across a stage, competing with each other for recognition of their physical attributes. If beauty contests “validate the wonderful difference between the sexes,” as Susan Carpenter McMillan states, we’re missing the other half. Let’s have beauty contests for men!

RUTH D. SHAPIN

Orange