That model, as Roxane Gay has written, was very specific it was limited to "single, never-married women between the ages of 18 and 28." In the early years, contestants also had to be white. Not only did the Miss America pageant winners get college scholarships and a foot in the door in the entertainment world, the winner was supposed to embody some perfect balance of book smarts, personal virtue, and beauty - the pageant's theme song unsubtly billed her as "the queen of femininity" and "your ideal" - and to serve as role models for younger women. Once upon a time, beauty pageants were billed as being good for women.
As it stands, they're making the shift just as the tide of popular opinion is turning against superficial "body-positivity" in general, and Miss America in particular - and it may be too little, too late. And maybe, if the organization had made the change back then, it would have helped. People have been protesting the Miss America pageant, and the swimsuit competition specifically, since the 1960s. And that means we will no longer have a swimsuit competition." - on the major changes coming to /IWKcVvCC50- Good Morning America June 5, 2018Īs you might guess from the not-so-helpful nature of that last comment (what happens if you put the swimsuit on before your body is "swimsuit-ready?" Does it explode?) this change is not exactly as revolutionary as the Miss America Organization would like you to think. JUST IN: "We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance.
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