Posted on 07/09/2018 6:18:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Nearly half of Miss America’s board has quit or been forced to resign in the wake of the organization’s decision to eliminate the swimsuit competition from the contest, and 22 state pageant leaders are seeking to oust Chairwoman Gretchen Carlson over concerns about the pageant’s new direction.
Ms. Carlson, a former Miss America and an early leader in the #MeToo movement, announced on June 5 that Miss America was dropping the swimsuit and evening-gown competitions and replacing them with an extended onstage interview. She said it was important to make women’s voices heard during a “cultural revolution in our country.”
Some former directors and state pageant heads said they felt pressured by Ms. Carlson and other executives to choose to end the swimsuit competition or risk having the pageant not being broadcast on television.
When asked for Ms. Carlson’s comment, the Miss American Organization said in a statement that no binary choice between swimsuit and a television deal was ever posed.
The TV broadcast is of critical importance to the pageant as it generates a significant amount of the organization’s revenue. The organization has long been on precarious financial footing, with a net loss of $575,000 in 2016—the latest available figures—on revenue of $9.8 million, according to federal filings.
The elimination of the swimsuit competition is testing the ability of a nearly 100-year-old institution to adapt to a fast-changing culture. Miss America started as a swimsuit competition in 1921, at a time when it was considered modern and liberating for women to pose in bathing suits.
Many volunteers who run the state and local competitions that lead up to Miss America said the change has been disorienting.
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You just made me realize that the term Miss “America” is inherently exclusionary and racist. The word ‘Miss’ is gender specific, so even that has to go.
That's what I want, to see 20 year olds lecturing me on global warming.
Or something like a former Miss Rhode Island said: As Miss America, I would try and bring an end to world hunger. If every person sacrificed one meal a week, there would be enough to feed the whole world!*
*From The Chaperone
Well the whole thing is racist, sexist, ageist, and every other ‘ist’ by modern pc standards. Just have a drawing from a computer containing all the women’s names in the USA....oh wait that won’t work either...trannies and all.....
Give them a choice, walk down the runway either in a burka or nude.
What's next? Of course the Boy Scouts is about boys. Otherwise, what's the point?
Seems like a left pattern emerging, all over again.
As if anyone watching is remotely interested in anything they have to say or opine on.
Why don't the organizers just admit they're looking for a liberal to anoint as the winner? The questions tend to be political ones.
Carlson is radicalized. The state pageant leaders, not so much. It is stupid to depart from a successful format.
Correct, as though the fix wasn't in on that from the start. Miss America got bit in the arse by "affirmative action".
And I'll also add the classless way they dumped Bert Parks. Johnny Carson even tried to get the decision reversed and even used the Tonight Show as a megaphone to advocate for that cause. Alas, to no avail.
At this point I think the whole operation should just fold and go away.
As if there was any shortage of that.
They get rid of the bikini suit and then men calling themselves women enter the competition.
I never liked Carlson while she was at FOX, and do not like her now.
This is all about looks and looking after themselves. If it were about brains then I would watch a program associated with intelligence.
I have already seen certain winners which were no way close to being beautiful and wold not win a competition in my local neighborhood.
Add a pie eating contest.
No, no, you’ve got it wrong. It’s always been about the Q&A (not the T&A).
“Miss Whatever, should you win, what would you like to see happen during your reign as Miss America?”
“I hope to see world peace...and stuff.”
My fashion battle cry used to be, “Down with hotpants.” Now it has become, “Off with the swimsuits.”
So we’re down to Prom Queen. Why bother.
Yep or I believe the woman who won because she was muslim.
She was a dim wit at FOX, and has not got any brighter.
Get ready for the (*drumroll*) feminazi Miss America Extravaganza!
Some former directors and state pageant heads said they felt pressured by Ms. Carlson and other executives to choose to end the swimsuit competition or risk having the pageant not being broadcast on television.
Either choice will have the same result: no viewers.
Her facial expression to me looked like she was in a lot of pain.
Make it radio broadcast . . .
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