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Those girls, eh

I almost brought up my dinner last night watching the news. Tara Conner, aka Miss USA, bawled all over the place about what a bad girl she’d been with all those booze and drug stories … it was a performance a 10 year old would have been embarrassed by. Even more embarrassing was the performance of the World’s Most Bizarre Person, Donald Trump, in ‘forgiving’ her. The final sick-making element was a series of interviews with grown-ups chortling about how kids will be kids and good golly gosh, it’s not like the little honey lamb did anything really bad or anything.

I couldn’t help comparing the juvenile witlessness of the whole thing with the faux outrage expressed by certain community leaders when NSW Young Australian of the Year Iktimal Hage-Ali was alleged to have been questioned by police but released without any charges being laid. Tara’s immature antics were a stark contrast to Iktimal’s dignified decision to hand back her title and stay away from the media. I didn’t hear too many people pooh-poohing her case as a trivial matter of young blood, girls will be girls and so on but then again she’s a Muslim. Maybe the rules are different for silly blond Anglo-Saxons.