Three Failed French Beauty Pageant Contestants Sue the Pageant, Claiming They Violated a French Law Forbidding Discrimination Based on... Looks

The contest hasn't been held yet, so I believe these must be people who were not picked to even be part of the contest proper. (Though I guess even the early auditions are part of the contest.)

Three Miss France beauty pageant contestants have joined a leading feminist group in suing the contest for alleged discrimination based on their appearance.

The 'Osez le feminisme' (Dare to be a Feminist) group, along with three failed contestants, said they were targeting the Miss France company as well as Endemol Production, which makes the annual TV programme screened on the TF1 channel.

Osez le feminisme said that it had filed a complaint with the state labour tribunal on behalf of the three former contestants, who didn't make the cut, saying they had given up trying to get their arguments across by other methods.

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The French labour code forbids companies from discriminating on the basis of 'morals, age, family status or physical appearance,' Violaine De Filippis-Abate, a lawyer for Osez le feminisme, told AFP.

The candidates' names are anonymous. But I would speculate that these three would do very well in a Body Type Diversity or Gender Diversity contest.

posted by Ace at 03:32 PM

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