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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Gretchen has issues, needs to be fired, and go to therapy.
“...an early leader in the #MeToo movement...”
#Fyou.
I think a new contest or TV series needs to be created called “America’s Sexiest, Classiest Babes”. No feminists, no sluts, tasteful, no discussion of accomplishments, skills or opinions. No performances because too many great babes are not stage performers.
It’s only a matter of time before the trannys start entering and winning.
It's done.
Miss America, Inc. is going homosexual and letting in homosexual cross-dressing transvestites.
They call them “transgenders”.
So, they have to get rid of the bikini contest.
“I never liked Carlson while she was at FOX, and do not like her now.”
Me either. I always felt there was something not quite right about that ever growing more snotty face. Turns out she was plotting and scheming treachery the whole time and just waiting for the right time to spring.
First they need to announce that the Miss America pageant is only open to people who were born with XX chromosomes. Then they need to acknowledge that it is a BEAUTY contest.......the intelligence being important after the BEAUTY. I was disappointed that they started letting women in who had ridiculously large breast implants. That being said, I haven’t watched the contest in years. I do enjoy watching Miss Congeniality whenever it is on TV though.
When is the Miss America competition? I thought that it was over already.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Well thigh me a river.....
Another sociopath has risen to the top of a large organization.
Surprise surprise surprise!
“Add a pie eating contest.”
Good idea!
How about a hot dog eating contest, sans buns.
YES! More on stage interviews /s.
Like Caitlin Upton, third runner-up in the Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant.
Quote:
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future [for our children”
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
Indeed it’s not a brain contest.
My sister is a former Mrs. America. The inside scoop that she got is that they’re laying the pathway to being open to more transgender entries and that eliminating the swim suit portion will help level out the competition. Wouldn’t want to give actual women an unfair advantage.
Honest to Pete, I thought Gretchen Carlson was smarter than this.
What next? burka-clad women?
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Here is your wish:
Didn't that just happen in another "beauty" pageant?
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