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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."

In place of the swimsuit portion of the competition, Miss America contestants will now take part in a live interactive session with the judges, according to the organization.

The contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will be asked to demonstrate their passion, intelligence and overall understanding of the job of Miss America.

The organization is also getting rid of the evening gown portion of the competition and instead asking contestants to wear attire that makes them feel confident and expresses their personal style. The contestants will also discuss how they will advance their chosen causes, called "social impact initiatives" by the Miss America Organization.

Nick_A wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:10 pm Sometimes stupidity can become so bad it is actually good. One wonders how anyone could come up with this idea. Any belief in humanity being an intelligent creature must be abandoned when you read this

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/miss ... d=55638426

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."

In place of the swimsuit portion of the competition, Miss America contestants will now take part in a live interactive session with the judges, according to the organization.

The contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will be asked to demonstrate their passion, intelligence and overall understanding of the job of Miss America.

The organization is also getting rid of the evening gown portion of the competition and instead asking contestants to wear attire that makes them feel confident and expresses their personal style. The contestants will also discuss how they will advance their chosen causes, called "social impact initiatives" by the Miss America Organization.

Can you imagine a bunch of guys having a beer and watching women dressed in yoga pants competing over who can be the most PC feminist? I feel sad for the station that has the TV contract for the event. Who the hell would want to watch this PC silliness?

-1- wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 10:02 pm Blatant discrimination!!

No males are allowed in the competition!!

I've raised my son very rigorously form age three to compete in the pageant. Now, that he's seventeen, a virgin, as required, or at least not having been the centrepiece of some seventies-style soft porn movie, what am I going to tell him, when he asks, why he can't enter the competition?

I'm going to take this fight all the way to the supreme court of the United States of
America!! And then beyond!!!!!

QuantumT wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:24 pm Pageants have always been silly, and the participants even more silly.

Arising_uk wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 10:25 am Damn right Nick_A, I mean 'god' forbid Miss America should demonstrate passion and intelligence what would you wank to?