Miss Teen America

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This week I did something I haven't done in a while. As I flipped through channels, I came across Miss Teen USA. I haven't watched the kids since I was a kid, but Miss Montana's answer caught my attention. Carl Lewis: What does integrity mean to you, and how does it help shape your life? Miss Montana: Driven. Being Driven and never letting anything, or anyone deter you from going for your dreams. To handle obstacles and setbacks, staying ambitious. To me, Integrity means Driven. Carl Lewis: Good Answer. Good Answer? Did you hear the question? Integrity? Okay, let's say that Driven was a form of uncompromised integrity. How does it shape your life? Was this an answer you rehearsed and decided it was going to work? Because it did. Makes you wonder how much these questions shape the judges' voting, or is this a formality. Miss Teen Winner 2006: Miss Montana! Integrity? Now, we have the opportunity to use it in a sentence. My question basically is this? Do you think the judges asking beauty pageant contestants questions take the focus from commercialized beauty to well-rounded beauty? Or, is the question from the judges basically for show to keep feminists at bay and men less guilty?