Brazil's Miss Bumbum Contestants Wear Beefkinis To Protest Sexual Harassment

HuffPo- Some contestants in a Brazilian beauty pageant dedicated to finding the nation’s best behind are protesting sexual harassment. And they’re doing it with a photo op straight out of Lady Gaga’s handbook.

The infamous Miss Bumbum Brazil pageant takes place Monday evening in Sao Paulo. As part of the hype, five of the women whose keisters are competing decided to pose in “beef-kinis”

Organizers insist there’s a message behind the meaty swimwear: “Women are not just a piece of meat,” according to SplashNews.

Ah, the old misdirect: wearing meat to deliver the message that women aren’t meat. Classic irony. Or, to a lot of people, a very confusing message. If you told a bear that women aren’t meat, and then you strapped a prime rib to her boobies, that bear would have a difficult time understanding the nuances of your message. And when it comes to women and prime rib, I’m a little bearish.

Also, are we really talking about Brazil’s Miss Bumbum contestants putting forth the message that women aren’t meant to be looked at objectively, as pieces of meat? That’d be like choosing a group of toothless crackheads to advocate for the health benefits of crack. If anything, this message should come from a group of female NASA scientists or UN ambassadors or a ladies bowling league. Not a group of women whose collective ambition is to have the best ass, as judged by a group of men (probably–the judging panel might be coed. I don’t know/care.)

Whatever. If these women want to wear meat and tell me it’s not meat, I’m not going to stop them. I once ate chicken-free chicken strips at a hipster barbecue in Brooklyn and it was fine. Would I have preferred real meat? Sure. But I left feeling satisfied, if not a little annoyed by the superior, nonconforming sermons preached by a band of gypsies whose parents paid the rent for their converted warehouses and communal garden space. They looked NOTHING like these progressive, political women: