How do you feel about Miss America no longer being a Beauty Contest?

As long as I’ve been alive, it has been more than a beauty contest. The women were dedicated to great causes, and were exemplary in areas of strength and fortitude.

To be honest, few of the women, even the winners, were all THAT attractive. But even physical beauty, like Olympic ability, requires taking care of one’s self (physical health including skin, hair, eyes), how a woman carries herself, and the beauty within that shines through the eyes, carriage, demeanor, etc etc.

So now, we hear that the Miss America contest will not include swimsuit or nightgown pagants—okay, yes, that can be sexist. I understand. It used to be fundamental Christian prudes who disapproved but now everyone can.

But all of a sudden, beauty contests are bad. Says the ‘Me Too” movement and popular culture. Well, there probably has been sexual goings on in beauty contests. The current administration (Trump) even has a history of this, supposedly.

But I also think it’s kind of insulting to reduce, or equate, a woman’s beauty, or the physical beauty of womanhood, to being sexual in nature.

Although I am well pleased to see the Miss America contest becoming a contest, based on issues besides physical attractiveness, I know that the beauty aspect, like Olympic athletic ability, is something that has to be worked at and comes from many sources besides being born that way.

On one hand, what a person looks like shouldn’t matter. It’s what’s inside. On the other hand, with all the work that goes into it, what’s so wrong with a contest that includes physical beauty? Its not something we can compliment nowadays, but what’s wrong with commemorating it? It’s one of the gifts of womanhood.

So, how do YOU feel about Miss America now becoming a “come as you are” affair that anyone can win? If … if what you do is judged by others to be a worthy cause?