![]() The pageant found itself in the midst of major controversy late last year when the Huffington Post uncovered emails between organization leadership talking about the contestants in lewd and vulgar ways. The swimsuit competition has been controversial since the early 1920s, but it’s been retained because the majority of the people like it.” “We are very sensitive to the fact that the swimsuit competition has always been our Achilles’ heel. “We are not stupid,” Leonard Horn, the organization’s former chief executive, said in 1993. In the early ’90s, Miss America went as far as to ask viewers to vote on whether they should keep the swimsuit portion in, which they overwhelmingly did. It bills itself as “the nation’s leading advocate for women’s education and the largest provider of scholarship assistance to young women in the United States” but can’t quite explain why it makes sense to base scholarships on who looks best in a bikini. Miss America, which launched in 1921, has always entailed a swimsuit competition - and struggled to explain the point of keeping it in. And that means we will no longer have a swimsuit competition." - on the major changes coming to /IWKcVvCC50- Good Morning America JMiss America doesn’t have the best history with its treatment of women JUST IN: "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance. ”Who doesn’t want to be empowered, learn leadership skills, and pay for college and be able to show the world who you are as a person from the inside of your soul?” Carlson, the former Fox News host and Miss America 1989 who was tapped as chair of the organization in January, said on GMA. The next competition will be held on September 9, 2018, in Atlantic City. The talent competition, which distinguishes Miss America from its competitor Miss USA (which is owned by Miss Universe), will stay in, and the evening gown portion will be revamped to “give participants the freedom to outwardly express their self-confidence in evening attire of their choosing while discussing how they will advance their social impact initiatives,” according to the Miss America Organization’s press release announcing the change. We're changing out of our swimsuits and into a whole new era #byebyebikini #MissAmerica2019 /pgyHotpoYz- Miss America Org June 5, 2018 ![]() ![]() Miss America posted a video with the hashtag #ByeByeBikini on Twitter. ”We’ve heard from a lot of young women who say, ‘We’d love to be a part of your program, but we don’t want to be out there in high heels and a swimsuit,’ so guess what, you don’t have to do that anymore,” Carlson told GMA. Young women will be paraded around and asked to jump through hoops to obtain an arbitrary title and some scholarship money. It will also revamp the evening gown part.Įven though it plans to get rid of some of its most controversial trappings and despite its rebranding as a “competition,” Miss America will still ultimately be a pageant. Organizers will swap the swimsuit competition for what Miss America described as a “ live interactive sessions with the judges,” during which competitors will highlight their achievements and goals in life and how they plan to use their “talents, passion, and ambition” to perform the job of Miss America. Miss America is ditching the swimsuit competition and shifting away from judging contestants on their physical appearance, trying to revamp its image after vulgar emails surfaced of its leadership disparaging contestants and to step into the #MeToo era under Gretchen Carlson’s guide.Ĭarlson, the former Fox News host who is now chair of the board of directors at Miss America, said in an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday that the organization is no longer a “pageant” but instead a “competition” where candidates will be judged on more than just their looks. ![]()
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