Miss America Stopping Swimsuit Round, Says It Will Not Judge Contestants on Physical Appearance

In what could be the most iconic decision for beauty pageants around the world, The Miss America contest organizers have gone and made a dynamic and flabbergasting decision. In their bid to end the contest being portrayed as nothing but a physical show of flesh, they are now projecting the pageant more as the beauty with brains type.

1An iconic decision

Miss America late last month in May announced much to the shock of many that they are doing away with their swimsuit round because they no longer want to judge women on the basis of their physical appearance. Does that sound hypocritical given the fact it is a beauty pageant after all?

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2There will be no swimsuit round for Miss America this year

Miss America has announced that it will do away with its swimsuit round because it was too sexist. It was Gretchen Carlson who was the first Miss America to serve on the Board of trustees who unveiled the decision on “Good Morning America”.

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3A huge change after almost a century

This means that in almost nearly a century, Miss America contestants won’t be seen strutting in sexy swimsuits because the pageant is redefining its roll to suit the prevailing atmosphere of gender equality and female empowerment.

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4The competition started in 1921

The pageant has been synonymous with the swimsuit round that was its biggest attraction obviously since 1921 where it would take place on the Atlantic City boardwalk. At the time the swimsuit was more of a one piece bathing suit because of the conservative era. Today of course women wear bikinis in front of leering television cameras.

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5What Gretchen Carlson had to say?

Carlson said in her announcement “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,”

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,” she continued.

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