Miss America Says Farewell To Its Swimsuit Competition !!

[sbenkoski]

Miss America is waving goodbye to its swimsuit competition, scrapping one of its most iconic elements in an attempt to shift the annual ceremony's emphasis away from its longtime focus on contestants' physical beauty.     

"We are no longer a pageant, we are a competition," Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of Miss America's board of directors, announced Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America. "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance.

    Go figure just when i start getting ready for a run at the title  and getting all swim suit  ready  they pull this  !!        Kidding  !!  This is a very good move for them i believe ,  POOR guys will have to stick to the Victoria Secrets under wear program !!   

[ghunter]

OK, bye bye

[JaniceSW]

Miss America is waving goodbye to its swimsuit competition, scrapping one of its most iconic elements in an attempt to shift the annual ceremony's emphasis away from its longtime focus on contestants' physical beauty.     

"We are no longer a pageant, we are a competition," Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of Miss America's board of directors, announced Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America. "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance.

    Go figure just when i start getting ready for a run at the title  and getting all swim suit  ready  they pull this  !!        Kidding  !!  This is a very good move for them i believe ,  POOR guys will have to stick to the Victoria Secrets under wear program !!   

Gosh, you were getting ready for the competition too?  I figured it was time for a "senior" competition.  You know that would have a big audience! Lots of cellulite and fallen tats! Appeals to some of the "eccentrics" out there!!

[NRAJOE]

I ain't watching anymore....

Never did anyway....

[sbenkoski]

Miss America is waving goodbye to its swimsuit competition, scrapping one of its most iconic elements in an attempt to shift the annual ceremony's emphasis away from its longtime focus on contestants' physical beauty.     

"We are no longer a pageant, we are a competition," Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of Miss America's board of directors, announced Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America. "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance.

    Go figure just when i start getting ready for a run at the title  and getting all swim suit  ready  they pull this  !!        Kidding  !!  This is a very good move for them i believe ,  POOR guys will have to stick to the Victoria Secrets under wear program !!   

Gosh, you were getting ready for the competition too?  I figured it was time for a "senior" competition.  You know that would have a big audience! Lots of cellulite and fallen tats! Appeals to some of the "eccentrics" out there!!

Hey now i never had no kids and used to run from 6am till midnight , i have no fallen anything.  Just a ugly scar on my calf what left of it . That cost me 1/2 a mill when its all said and done , better than a wooden peg though !
I'm 60 and buy july 4th i'll be sporting a two piece! And not bloomer pants !

[countrygirl12]

It has always been a competition.  Wonder what it will be replaced with?  I have not watched the beauty pageants in years.  I think it is wrong to put so much emphasis on what a woman looks like.  And if you don't look like this then you aren't pretty.  Just my opinion.

[NRAJOE]

Miss America is waving goodbye to its swimsuit competition, scrapping one of its most iconic elements in an attempt to shift the annual ceremony's emphasis away from its longtime focus on contestants' physical beauty.     

"We are no longer a pageant, we are a competition," Gretchen Carlson, the chairwoman of Miss America's board of directors, announced Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America. "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance.

    Go figure just when i start getting ready for a run at the title  and getting all swim suit  ready  they pull this  !!        Kidding  !!  This is a very good move for them i believe ,  POOR guys will have to stick to the Victoria Secrets under wear program !!   

Gosh, you were getting ready for the competition too?  I figured it was time for a "senior" competition.  You know that would have a big audience! Lots of cellulite and fallen tats! Appeals to some of the "eccentrics" out there!!

Hey now i never had no kids and used to run from 6am till midnight , i have no fallen anything.  Just a ugly scar on my calf what left of it . That cost me 1/2 a mill when its all said and done , better than a wooden peg though !
I'm 60 and buy july 4th i'll be sporting a two piece! And not bloomer pants !

Pics! 

[kimber62372]

What a shame! Oh well, I have not watched the Miss America show in ages! lol ... And you sport that 2 piece girl! You deserve it!

[brian8713]

They've been trying to get rid of the swimsuit competition for years. They even had viewers vote on it, but they overwhelmingly voted in favor of keeping it. I guess it is a bit sexist to have women strutting around in their beach apparel, but aren't beauty pageants sexist in general?  Yes, I know they call it a "scholarship pageant" now, but a significant part of it will always be about the women's looks.

[alina6]

I didn’t know miss America was still around.

[dsosnowski06]

It is about time!  They should be judged on their intelligence and not how good they look a swimsuit.  Miss USA and Miss Universe need to follow suit

[PGS28]

I never watched the petition/competition but I think it's progress that they're saying farewell to the swim suit section.

[PGS28]

I can imagine male viewers having a problem with this though 

[alice44]

I am totally happy with this change.  Give women a chance to show who they really are, not just how they look in a swim suit.

[brian8713]

My only problem with this is, what will they do in its place? An IQ test? I watch the Miss America pageant as entertainment, and I'm hoping they find something else entertaining (even explaining their platform for America a little more) to take its place.