Miss Philippines Earth Candidates Wear Black Veil During Preliminaries

Miss Philippines Earth went controversial because of black veils worn by candidates during the swimsuit preliminaries.

Miss Philippines Earth involve in controversy for they let their candidates wore a black veil during their swimsuit preliminaries on June 22 at the Oakwood Premier Joy-Nostalg Center.

According to the news report released by the Rappler, the parade of the delegates on their attire during it preliminaries was described on the report as “creepy and disturbing”.

As written on the report, it told, “The black veil was totally inappropriate and sends the wrong message about women. The pageant justified their gimmick by alluding to the fact that only “figure and form” was being judged. Unfortunately, this gimmick objectified women by emphasizing to the viewing public to simply look at the body of the candidate.”

Thus, on the other hand, the MPE posted their defense on their Facebook page.

The post is stated below:

“#MPE2017 TAKING OFF THE VEIL OF CONTROVERSY
In the pre-judging portion of figure and form, (which is separate from the swimsuit competition, by the way), the transparent veil served a double purpose — first, to place emphasis on the figure and form of the candidate, which was the criteria of focus for that specific portion, and second to introduce the girls with dramatic flair since it was the first in our series of prejudging. Our next pre judging will focus on Poise and Beauty of Face, where the judges will get to see and judge the candidate’s personality. On the week of the finals will be the pre judging of Intelligence and determination were the confidence of the Ladies will be Judged
After 26 years of doing pageants, we have noticed that it is difficult to separate inherent biases while judging. In the past 10 years or more, we have noticed the ladies work so hard on each of the criteria needed for the competition. Miss Philippines Earth decided to make this move to promote strict impartiality during our prejudging and for the first time allowed the event to be seen by the public.
Lastly, we honestly do not believe that the girls were objectified or that they felt objectified, remember we are working with millennials. They speak their mind and will not way allow themselves to be put on the negative side. If you paid attention to the entire show and listened to the Ladies promoting their fitness and health regimen, which is part of our environmental campaign, then maybe you would have seen it in a different way. Most often than not when you get out of the norm, there would always be questions and negativity. This is expected.”