I just learned that a woman with cerebral palsy became Miss Iowa of 2008, thanks to dsobsey on What Sorts of People blog. dsobsey raises a question; while Miss Iowa deserves some kudos for her achievement, can we really say this is all good when now it may seem that women with disabilities are included in the same demeaning objectification as other women? There are two points I'd like to make about dsobsey's question. One is, disabled women have always, already been included in the demeaning objectification of women. So they're not new to this horrible reality that women live in. The other is, rather than making it an issue of personal action being good or bad, we must understand that one's action per se, whether expressing differences or concealing them, is not either good or bad until it's received (or not received) by the mass. So we must analyze critically social discourses surrounding personal/collective actions rather than those actions per se.