Jigsaw puzzles, Miss Earth for the Environment

A most interesting theme for jigsaw puzzles pieces nowadays is the Miss Earth competitions now regularly held every year in the effort to promote environmental awareness and consciousness of the world's population on the environmental problems. Perhaps the successful acceptance of the Miss World, Miss International and Miss Universe competitions over the years influenced largely the adoption of the contest among beautiful women for an additional international title, this time that of Miss Earth.

This new competition however is not solely a beauty contest but is actually meant to be a vehicle for spreading the message of the urgency of doing something for the earth buffeted now by serious environmental problems. The female of the species is always favored in promoting advocacies like the one now for rallying the people for the improvement of the environment. That is the reason why even jigsaw puzzles now have the picture of the beauties as the objective for which players spend hours the cut pieces in assembling.

The men especially are the targets of the environmental message the contestants for Miss Earth espouse, as men normally are the decision makers in life. Men are the addressees of the message, being by nature suckers for beautiful women, garbed in the skimpiest of attires, like the two-piece swimsuits that always show the assets of womanhood. The organizers of the new international beauty contest think Miss Earth and the other competition contestants can easily convince the men to heed the call for the environment.

Jigsaw puzzle makers no doubt are always in search of what appropriate pictures they should use in their products when the puzzle enthusiasts assemble their puzzles. They should not veer away from the popular issues of the day so jigsaw puzzle players can easily connect to the pictures that they form with the cut pieces.

The little girls normally go for the pictures of women as their targets in assembling the puzzles and likely, they are the buyers of these types of puzzles. With the help of their moms, the girls take special effort in looking for these feminine types of puzzles in the stores.

This is supposed to be the normal run of things, but a male clerk in a store selling the floor puzzles says that it is surprising that men outnumber the girls and the women eyeing the pictures of the sexy contestants. For example, pictures of Miss Universe candidates and lately, Miss Earth contestants, are favorites of the admiring males. The salesperson says in the store where he works long lines of men ogle the sexy pictures of the lady contestants.

The Miss Earth contestant who has done some advance reading on the environmental problems now getting the world’s primary attention is likely to bag the Miss Earth crown. The judges in the contest do not only score her on her physical looks, but also give more consideration on the thoroughness of her knowledge and the ability to intelligently articulate on the burning environmental issues of the day.