What About Ms. FSU?

Every year, Framingham State University holds a competition for a Mr. FSU, who is supposed to be a respectable and responsible male student to represent our student body.  And oh yeah, he also has to dance around the stage to the song “I’m Sexy and I Know it”.  In an essence it is a beauty pageant, for men.  It is a bit of a prestigious title for someone to achieve around campus.  It declares that person as someone who is widely accepted and in a position to act in accordance with the expectations of fellow students.  

So why can I not earn this title?  Well, because I am not a man.

I am no feminist, but doesn’t it sound a bit ridiculous that there is a Mr. FSU, but not a Ms. FSU?  It almost implies that we are better off representing ourselves with a male than a female.  As I ponder through the past three years here trying to find something that is similar in its sexist ways, I do not think I can think of anything quite as blatant as this.  

There is the Fashion Show which I recently participated in, but even there I saw a mix of gender.  

I must mention that I cannot imagine that there has not been thought about this previously, which makes me think whether there is a deeper reasoning behind there Mr. FSU competition and its strict inclusion of only males.  In our progressive society the aim against sexism is still thriving, so it seems impossible that Mr. FSU has been overlooked.  

I do not think women should get special treatment, nor do I think men should get special treatment.  That is why I think that there should be both a Mr. and a Ms. FSU.  That way there will not only be two representatives, but the representatives would be of different genders, which can contribute differing opinions to various subjects.