I’m not a feminist but Miss America is from the 7th level of hell.
According to their website, they give away 40 million in scholarships per year. This isn’t just for those that make it to the “big” pageant, but also for those who compete in their local and state pageants too.
40 million in scholarships! That’s great, seriously.
And let’s look at the #1 thing they have to do to get that money:
Is it good grades? No. Lots of women who would never get into a pageant get good grades.
Is it poise? Personality? No. See above.
To get the money, recipients must meet America’s standards of beauty.
Do they have nice firm boobs? Is their ass nice and round, but not too big? Do they fill out a bathing suit well?
Two thousand and fucking three and the NUMBER ONE organization who gives women scholarship money requires them to prance around in a fucking swimsuit first!
Why do women, and the men who love them, allow this to continue?
There are women in the US who could mop the floor with the cookie cutter women who end up on TV competing in the big pageant. They are smarter, they give more to their communities, they are original thinkers who would give REAL answers to those stupidass interview questions, and they are better role models.
Oh, but we’ll never see the real top 50 female American heroes competing on TV. They can’t, or won’t, don a bathing suit or an evening gown and tapdance for the judges, or starve themselves, or exercise 3 hours a day. They are too busy writing books, thinking about a run for the Senate someday, raising their kids, or hoping to get through medical school and find a cure for cancer or AIDS. Their tits are “too small” and they can’t do a thing with their hair. They don’t deserve help with college because they’re lacking where it really counts: looks.
I am not saying that any woman who ends up competing for Miss America doesn’t have anything going for them. These are bright women who have wonderful goals for their lives. I’m sure some of them do have sparkling personalities and really are nice people.
I’m lamenting because not a damn one of those 50 women competing tonight would be given the time of day by the #1 scholarship program for women in the nation if they didn’t look good in a bikini.
We haven’t come a long way, baby