Reading this totally reminded me of Miss Congeniality, one of my all time favorite movies. I saw so many similarities from this, like how only the seemingly perfect girls get nominated for these beauty pageants and how they are suppose to be "scholarship" based. But picking a winner only based on looks is a bit questionable to me. Training your whole life on just being beautiful just seems wrong, but my mom said only the beautiful people ever get picked on jobs. It's a horrible truth and we as a society need to look past the beautiful people and focus on the truly talented. Of course this will be a difficult transition if we even ever think of considering that seeing as we are a nation who treat our celebrities like royalty. The media also fuels the bad image the Miss America Pageant gets all because sex sells more than brains. Today's media is filled with sex, sex, sex, and drugs. The only reason why we keep the infamous swimsuit portion is to keep the ratings up. Even though Miss America is considered a scholarship foundation they focus on the minimal effort on education. It would be interesting to see the actual questioning which got the girls into the finals. We would be seeing strong, intelligent, and beautiful women answering questions. Young girls will see and have better role models who are actually book smart, morally stable, and beautiful on the inside and out. Kate Shindle describes how winning Miss America gave her the opportunity to use her brains and help our people in need. I partly see this as a publicity stunt she is able to do those kind of things because she is the winner and deemed beautiful. Her face will be seen on magazines there are probably thousands of people doing the same thing Shindle is doing but aren't published in a magazine. With Shindle's face on magazines and media not only does she get money for it but the pageant also gets money.
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I agree with you on the fact that the world pay attention to what Shindle does is because she's the 1998 Miss America; and there's no doubt that others like her are doing the same thing but got ignored by the public. Perhaps if Shindle has never spoke out about the Pageant program, maybe no one would ever notice.
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