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Trans men enter Miss Italy pageant in droves after trans women are told they can’t compete (www.nbcnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They felt like a comeback to the 1960s in 1990... and thereupon lies your answer: they're shows for boomers, designed for when they were 18±5 years old, and still catering to the same audience. Kind of like Eurovision.

As anecdotal reference, I've recently heard a boomer-aged gent, get scandalized by the "oversexualization" of modern pop singers... then proceed to watch a Miss contest, followed by an Eurovision "let's pick our candidate" show 😒

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me, but I will not take this Eurovision slander

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My mistake; Eurovision started in 1956, when the youngest "boomer" (born in 1946, or 9 months after WWII ended) was about 10 years old, so that would make them 19±5 in the 1960s.

Now the slander: this is "Operacion Triunfo 2024"

Await with great expectation for one of those artists to represent Spain this year... 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And then everyone got up and clapped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well not the boomer ageed gent, he was busy selecting Eurovision contestants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Still is, they run the selection program from October/November the year before, until... well, it depends, this year they seem to be voting on a finalist right now, or something (sorry, I don't follow the thing too closely).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Triunfo_(Spanish_TV_series)