Lovely girls love shoes.
Daithi O’Se at Dublin Airport today with the American Roses ahead of the International Rose of Tralee festival.
The six day festival runs from Friday to Tuesday August 20.
Classic female group photo dip (top), in fairness
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
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dear feminism, please, please come to ireland.
And bring some dignity & self respect with you, we’re all out
..of love, we’re so lost without you…
One might argue that the Rose of Tralee is perfectly in line with feminist beliefs.
It is essentially a personality contest, combining minor elements of a talent show.
One of the prime subjects of conversation is the educational achievements and career objectives of the contestants.
No. You could argue it, but it would only work if you didn’t know what either feminism or an argument was.
Can you explain why it is anti-feminist as opposed to merely over-earnest or old-fashioned?
It’s a beauty pageant with, admittedly, the most egregiously misogynistic aspects of a beauty pageant filed off for a family audience, but so long as its primary, most obvious and up-front criteria for judging women is beauty, I don’t think it can really be compatible with feminism.
Because it’s exclusionary, fetishises obedience and compliance with a narrowly defined social order by one gender only, reinforces traditional power and familial structures, idealises female beauty and conformity by requiring it to accompany all achievements by women, and is in the pocket of Big Taffeta.
That sort of thing.
It isn’t a beauty pageant, Nigel. So far as I can see, the prettiest girl rarely wins.
Whether you take them at face value or not, none of the judging criteria refers mainly to aesthetic beauty.
http://www.roseoftralee.co.nz/criteria.html
Caroline, this may all be true but I was hoping you might explain how that is the case. How exactly does it do the things you claim it does?
I can see that it encourages a particular set of upper-working-class to middle-class values but if that hardly makes it anti-feminist in and of itself. The same could be said (and regularly is said) of many feminist activist groups after all.
It also is only open to women but that again is true of women-only gyms etc. Are they anti-feminist too?
Howsabout one for blokes then? What’ll we call it….the Rides of Tralee. Have them dance and stuff.
Sure that’s basically “Take Me Out”, and that flopped here already.
“So here’s Séamus, ladies…25 years old, has 200 acres outside Bailieborough, likes Ifor Williams trailers, sodabread and the smell of silage…What’s your party piece for us tonight, Séamus?”
“I have road frontage.”
“…eh, and?”
“That’s it.”
*All ladies leave lights on. Séamus goes home with the one who can carry a square bale under each oxter*
If that’s a leaked script, hell I’d watch it.
are you an idiot? actually, don’t bother answering that.
Are they all called Colleen?
:-)
Yes, including the leprechaun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlNT3dtZ9mE
Stad sin!
They all have lovely…. *gets clipped in the ear* …..shoes, of course I meant shoes !!
Ryan tubridy: is it hard dealing with all these lovely ladies now that you’re a married man, Daithi?
Daithi: well Ryan, as the aul Kerry saying goes ‘just because you’re neutered doesn’t mean you can’t finger them!’
Ryan: oh Daithi , you’re a gas man altogether. Up next, why terry wogan thinks I’m great.
spat out my water there
Classic Mani comedy. Have you thought about getting a twitter account. Instant validation for your brand of humour.
I’d say you’re more of a Bernard Manning man yourself, Jock?
Superb Mani, superb!
hahahaha
Brilliant Mani!
Sniggers
For the sake of the country, please tell me that did not happen.
Brilliant Mani :)
What’s the deal with the weird bent at the knees thing they do in the first picture?
It’s a fight or flight response to Daithí’s bull-pheromone aftershave.
Because it’s Crouchfort Terminal 2.
Known as the “sorority squat” https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sorority+squat&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB456GB456&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wBXqU6nLFMyS7Abco4HACw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1157&bih=1032
That’s hilarious.
Humans eh.
Rickets.
The photographer was p*ssed and thought that their heads were out of the frame.
Sorry ladies but you’ve all ruled yourselves out.
Yawwwwwwnnnn….. this again…..arent you a lovely girl……why not change the rose of tralee to an awards gala for women of achievement…instead of ‘Hoh! Gowan !…Gis a Jig!’
“An Awards Gala For Women Of Achievement” sponsored by The Oirish Times and Ballygowan Still.
No winners, no patriarchy, no men. Bikini parade optional.
Or change it to a mud wrestling competition.
Eh… there’s loads of those kinda awards already… the annual WMB Awards, WXN 25 Awards and Franchise Direct Awards for Irish women entrepreneurs…. to name three.
What’s with his outfit? Is he a magician, or a cowboy, or a pilot?
I think he’s from Kerry or something…
A Chippendale.
Why? MC, eh.
He’s a special case.
Miss Scotland is quite lively …
Song 3 on the Rose of Tralee CD: http://youtu.be/o_1aF54DO60
He’s a top class be****d
Excellent title. Very succinct.
behave like a pig, get treated like a pig.
I don’t think this is an appropriate forum for the renewal of your wedding vows.
Ahhhaaaahaaa!
whats with the Mani butt kising?
Just trying to soften the Arbour hill to society transition. Ease up.
Perhaps you be better off asking yourself ‘why aren’t I funny?’
Daithi is a big Gombeen eejit! He should be in a culchie Gombeen contest