Miss South Carolina Perpetuates Dumb Blond Stereotype

Mandy @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, August 27, 2007

At the Miss Teen USA pageant, Miss South Carolina Lauren Caitlin, who amazingly came in third after she butchered this answer, just could not come up with a reason why 1/5 of Americans can’t find America on a map. Well, duh – it’s because the don’t have maps! Miss South Carolina might be included in that 1/5.

Her answer transcribed:

“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the US should help the US, uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”

OMG.

UPDATE: People reports that Miss South Carolina Teen USA, Lauren Caitlin Upton, will get a chance to redo her answer on tomorrow’s Today Show.

Lauren said, “I didn’t do anything wrong. I wasn’t expecting [the question]. I lost my train of thought.” She added she “completely misunderstood” the question.

And maybe the girl isn’t as dumb as she sounded. She is described as a varsity athlete and student leader at Lexington High School, where she graduated in June with a 3.5 GPA.

Source: “ICYMI: Lobotomized Girl Scores Third Runner-Up in Miss Teen USA Pagaent” [Best Week Ever]