Posted on 07/30/2018 9:18:22 AM PDT by SMGFan
In "Miss America 2.0," the pageant is not a pageant, but a "competition." The contestants aren't contestants, but "candidates."
And swimsuits are no longer part of the program. After a messy scandal last year involving the ouster of the previous CEO, who was found to have made misogynistic and body-shaming comments about former Miss Americas, change arrived with the installation of a new female-led leadership team headed by former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson.
Carlson, Miss America 1989, had become a vocal advocate for women's equality and victims of sexual assault and misconduct in the past two years and the during the rise of the #MeToo movement.
But as she trumpeted that contestants would no longer be judged on how their bodies look in a swimsuit, unrest was brewing within the pageant ranks.
Not only did many disagree with the Miss America board's decision to nix the swimsuits, favoring an allegiance to a nearly 100-year tradition, but they also felt entirely misled by how they say Carlson and the program's new CEO sold them on the change.
Now, with the Atlantic City pageant just six weeks away, state pageant organizations have come out against Carlson and pageant leadership. And while the swimsuit issue may fill headlines, critics of "Miss America 2.0," including current contestants and former Miss Americas, say the problem isn't just about the swimsuits.
After years of debate about the waning relevance of the pageant, could the swimsuit impasse ultimately mean curtains for the New Jersey tradition? Here's a look inside the conflict that is roiling Miss America.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Saw Jaime Gialloreto in person at the Ocean AC . She is cute girl. Wore her crown. Too much makeup this time.
The swimsuits and evening gowns were showing too much..offensive.
I wonder if anyone (or numbers of any significance) will watch the show this year.
Seriously. It will be fun news to follow, I must say.
“””””””””””””The swimsuits and evening gowns were showing too much..offensive.””””””””””””””””””””””””””
Miss Universe in Spain was recently won by a dude. They stopped the swimsuit part because his bulge was not flattering. Sick times we live in.
I think they should wear nothing at all.
She was wearing her crown. She sampling the various food , and I just said congratulations.
That 1920’s beach wear in B/W photo reduced risk of skin cancer.
Trump would have never cut the swimsuits.
They need to sell it back to Trump in 2025 and let Trump MMAGA.
I will not be watching. Whatever purpose these “pageants” once served, that purpose no longer exists and it’s time these things became curiosities of the past.
I didn’t even know they were still on.
"Swim Wear!"
"Very Nice!"
This is about allowing ugly women, and possibly trannies access to a “beauty pagent”. The whole thing started as a swimsuit contest with the intention being to extend the Atlantic City tourist season a couple of weeks. And for their enlightenment, no one watches the show to be intellectually impressed by parading MENSA members. “My state’s hot babe looks better than (rival states) hot babe.” Carlson is missing the point of the show.
My wife and granddaughters like “Miss Congeniality”. Take away the swimsuit competition and it’s a high school talent show.
I can’t speak for all americans, but I had better things to do with my time even when it was extraordinarily beautiful women scantily clad.
There are a lot of nice tits in the world, buy I’m interested in only two of them, and they are both attached to my wife. And she’s not competing.
“I think they should wear nothing at all.”
That’s the Olympics, with which I agree, after they went pro, and are NOT Olympics.
The feminazis are just mad they don’t look like this.
however, I can't believe of all the controversies and chaos in the world anyone could possibly care one iota over the "swimsuit" competition...one of the stupidest things in the world..
you mean we don't have daily regular access to naked near naked women already?....
who the H watches these shows anyway?...get a life....
Why not just turn it into a complete competition show, like a spelling-bee for young women.
And, btw, aren’t single-gender competitions biased? Shouldn’t they be inclusive and feature young men too, and anybody from the LGBT communities that wish to enter?
In addition, all of these beauty contests are based on age, whereby the older generations are not featured at all.
If a competition is going to be fair, then, everybody should be allowed in. Liberals should be outraged that there is any kind of bias in any of these shows, whether biased on age or gender or sexual-preferences or religion or politics.
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