Miss America Pageant no longer to be based on 'appearance'

[critter]

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/miss-america-scrapping-swimsuit-competition-no-longer-judge-113504662--abc-news-celebrities.html



Miss America is scrapping its swimsuit competition and will no longer judge contestants based on physical appearance, the organization announced Tuesday.

"We are no longer a pageant," Gretchen Carlson, the first former Miss America to be named chair of the Board of Trustees of the Miss America Organization, said on "GMA." "We are a competition."


This will increase ratings for sure. Definitely a smart move. Trigglypuff approved.

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[okie john]

Now they can run it like the college admissions process, and it will be just about as interesting.


Okie John

[blues]

I always watched it for the suggested answers to the world's problems.

[SouthNarc]

I always watched it for the suggested answers to the world's problems.


Not me buddy. All about those boobies.

[blues]

Not me buddy. All about those boobies.

Here ya go, Craig. The last winner from Mississippi:

http://www.mississippispageantupdate.com/susan_akin.jpg

[SouthNarc]

Here ya go, Craig. The last winner from Mississippi:

http://www.mississippispageantupdate.com/susan_akin.jpg

Now that is a proper southern bimboImeanbelle!

[TheNewbie]

Reality is looks matter (especially to men), and I tell my girlfriend thank you for always trying to look pretty. It means a lot to me.

Just like a guy who has no serious plan for life, they ain't that appealing.

[LOKNLOD]

So... now it’s just Miss America’s Got Talent?


How long till they are forced to let a dude try to win?

[RevolverRob]

In a world where millions of terrabytes of pornography are readily available - does anyone still care about Miss America?

[Peally]

"Competition".......ooooooook.

[Bigghoss]

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/89/aa/83/89aa838710d2ad4fa68bef41b89a4de1--funny-shit-funny-stuff.jpg

WTF is even the point of the pageant anyway?

[Lex Luthier]

My niece was Miss Alaska in 1991. I wonder what she thinks of this?

[blues]

My niece was Miss Alaska in 1991. I wonder what she thinks of this?

Probably left her cold.

[Trooper224]

My daughter was involved in pageants during highschool and I worked security for the big state pageant one year. That was a bigger hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley.

[Guerrero]

I always watched it for the suggested answers to the world's problems.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3st-Hai1y54

[Greg]

Does the Mr. Universe competition have talent and Q&A segments?

Can't remember.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Each competitor would say that she was started a foundation for a cause. I wonder how many existed or still exist. In a way, it mirrors the problems of college admissions - pure academic achievement like the SATs or GPA are being abandoned. However, the SATs are watered down and grade inflation killed the GPA. So you get rich kids going to Africa to do charity work (hey, start a foundation). Kids who had to work a crappy summer job as they needed the money are at a disadvantage. Most of those after school extracurriculars are seen as a joke and fraudulent by the kids.

So it's the same for the pageants - why bother to have a scholarship competition ( a good thing) as a TV show? It will end up in the WGACRap network ( # 2353 on your screen).

[Zincwarrior]

In a world where millions of terrabytes of pornography are readily available - does anyone still care about Miss America?

I think the viewers are overwhelming ly female actually.