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Shouldn't be a problem. I'm sure the Miss USA contests's viewership (and resulting sponsors' payments) won't diminish at all because of this.
And if Playboy magazine stopped printing its sexy pictures, and only showed women fully dressed, showing their talents and discussing serious subjects, that wouldn't affect their circulation either.
For the same reason: neither half of the human race has any particular interest seeing the other half scantily clad. Their interest is solely in the classy dresser, intellectually accomplished speaker, skilled professional etc.
I'm Libertarian, not Conservative, so I'm not sure I care what Trump and Ryan do. Is it progress. Sure, I'll give you that. The big problem I'm seeing is that many proponents of getting women to cover up are the same people who hide the crimes of Muslim Rape Gangs. I think turing 11, 12 and 13 year old girls into sex slaves raped as many as 50 times a day is a bigger issue than a bunch of aspiring super-models getting to pass on wearing a bikini and heels on stage. The political movement that got the swimsuit competition eliminated is the same movement that knowingly and actively ignored the Muslim Rape Gang crisis for 40+ years, all in the name of being inclusive and progressive. It's the Progressive Movement in both cases and it absolutely is political.
You will notice that Progressive media barely mentions Muslim Rape Gangs, but actively demonizes anyone calling attention to them. Democrats in the US avoid the issue. The Progressive mayor of London is right at ground zero for the problem and Sadiq Khan can't be bothered to say a word.
You are conflating objectification of women with the subjugation of women.
Only teenage boys watched it anyway. Now THEY will flipping the channel to something else.
That is not the main audience. The fact that they are ditching the swimsuits should make it pretty obvious. Its simply that it will now be even less appealing to any other audience.
"We are no longer a pageant," Gretchen Carlson, the first former Miss America to be named chair of the Board of Trustees of the Miss America Organization, said on "GMA." "We are a competition."
In place of the swimsuit portion of the competition, Miss America contestants will now take part in a live interactive session with the judges, according to the organization.
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"We’ve heard from a lot of young women who say, ‘We’d love to be a part of your program but we don’t want to be out there in high heels and a swimsuit,’ so guess what, you don’t have to do that anymore," Carlson said. "Who doesn’t want to be empowered, learn leadership skills and pay for college and be able to show the world who you are as a person from the inside of your soul."
She continued, "That’s what we’re judging them on now."
Based on where American culture is right now, this is not surprising.
And the interactive session will be a contest to see who can best articulate elite liberal talking points. I know that's not specified, but I thought I would fill that in as well.
No reason at all, to watch now.
Do they not realize, only men watched it... or were the majority of viewers.
It's unlikely simply due to the fact that I display zero signs of a victim mentality.
A fat slug like that would most likely cherish women while putting the P on a pedestal.
I've never befriended a chick in my entire life. Literally every woman that I've ever spent time around in a 1 on 1 situation outside of work that I wasn't related to has been prey.
Victims don't talk like that ^
To be honest you sound like one of those loser incels.
I’m a 49 year old straight man and I never watched this show. Don’t plan on starting anytime soon.
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