“We will no longer judge our candidates on their outward physical appearance.” Then why have the contest at all? Since when did physical beauty become a crime? Kenny Ray Travis
Miss America has been lost in the middle. It’s not really a beauty pageant anymore, like Miss Universe. Is it now just like, “Hey, look at me for my talent? My smarts?” Pageants are just kind of dead people just go to the Internet if they want to see beautiful women.
Kevin McCloud
If there are no bikinis, we can’t have a proposal to have a fitness competition, either! There would just be 50 women parading around in sports bras, and skin-tight leggings or yoga pants.
If swimsuits are gone, fine, but then there can’t be just another forum for the contestants to display lots of skin.
Bruce Lee
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