Miss America 2023–it’s a Motley Crew

Looks more like Miss China 🇨🇳

Oh.

Well, at least they don't call it a beauty pageant anymore. Are they trading "swimsuit" for "college loan debt" competition?

It needs to stop now.

At last! Or is some tranny gonna buy the organization and make it an even greater mockery of itself?

Career Ambition: Become an empowerment speaker with the brand I founded, “Time to Shake Your Beauty.”

Wow what homely creatures.

If this is the “Miss” category, I’m scared of what the Fraus look like.

Miss KY looks like Rachel Dratch and Miss ME…bitch! I thought R5 was joking but she actually said that.

Miss ND didn’t have access to a portable steamer or properly sized bra; her “dress” looks tacked on.

Woof!

The only one who's even close to attractive is (gulp) Miss Wyoming.

Yikes

Miss Maryland isn't bad.

R1 is right.

There's a whole lot of ugly here.

Just wait until Miss Greater Derry gets in next year.

Then it'll be a TOTAL joke.

If anything, either Arizona, Michigan, or Nebraska should win on looks alone.

Never been the same since they kicked off Bert Parks. "There he goes, . . ."

Ms. Connecticut has bodies buried in her backyard. And not in the fun way.

I thought Hawaii looked decent.

Found an interview on youtube, and apparently she was Miss Teen USA Hawaii in 2017.

Her older sister also went to the Miss America pageant that same year.

She seems to have a lot of pageant experience, and that usually works in a contestant's favor.

It’s so cute and edgy to pair a formal dress with masculine sneakers….said 1984.

20 years ago these people would’ve been laughed out of a beauty pageant.

Miss America is about scholarships! Miss USA is about sluts!!!

Miss Executive Secretary (Montana), Miss Aging Prematurely (Kentucky), Miss I Graduated With Honors While High on Crack/ Miss I Was A Dog in High School (Maine)…

I love Savanna Cabanna. Hope she wins.

Miss New York is a big boned gal. Or, a tranny.

Miss Texas does NOT have big hair. How is that possible?

I have a good friend who was Miss Teen Kentucky years ago. Part of her prize was a lifetime supply of Aquanet. Her closet was full of bottles and she finally had to tell they to stop sending it.

Has the pageant been over ran by "Non-Binary" / "Stunning And Brave" activists yet?

What’s with the blazers? Some of them look like they just left the lab.

Well, Suzanne Sugarbaker's been proven wrong - Miss Mississippi is kind of homely (albeit far from the worst of the bunch.

We're a bunch of cheap sluts in Missouri, our gurlie is a fine representative.

Miss North Dakota wearing what appears to be an outfit she made in sewing class, needs a haircut and a bra.

But what amazing talents will they show??

Miss Maine for the win! That gal can party!

Maine looks like Rachel Dratch in a party city wig.

Geez, those women are not attractive.

Remember when the contestants from the southern states like Alabama, Texas, Missouri, Georgia were gorgeous. You'd think that the least those maga redneck states could do is produce attractive women for Miss America since they contribute nothing else to the country.

Most of them look like entry-level headshots that a talent agency receives and discards by the truckload.

Why did they pose all the black girls vamping and being “sassy”?

not seeing the sassy black girl image.

the photo editor has a talent for choosing the worst image. Every one looks dry, dry hair and skin

Ugly girls need representation too. Now every girl can dream of being a Miss America.

[quote]She seems to have a lot of pageant experience, and that usually works in a contestant's favor.

Preachin' to the choir.

None of these bitches could even win Miss Valdosta Feed & Grain.

NY, TN and HI are pretty

But they’re so smart!!! So beautiful on the inside!

But they're so articulate and thoughtful! Click on "Learn More" if you dare.

What is the best advice you’ve ever received?

As 2022 comes to a close, I hope you enter the new year with the same excitement and determination I had as I slammed my face into this cake after reaching a huge milestone!

I think the way they are posed and styled is terrible. I couldn't even finish looking at those photos. Yikes.

I like Miss Connecticut. She has a cute face and her talent is Latin Dance. Bring it girl.

Miss Alaska and Miss Arkansas look like they would cut a bitch.

Miss Florida for the win.

I miss the glory days: when our Miss America was an incest survivor, or did a soft porn shoot, or who was stone dead, or who had one leg shorter than the other until God healed her. They don’t crown those types any longer.😵‍💫

**DEAF

r46 You're not going back far enough. The "good old days" was when they all had middle names and made questionable choices for the talent competition.

That talent act is what won her the crown. God told her she would win and she did.

Yes, R46, it’s shameful they no longer crown physically attractive contestants.

If the deaf and gimpy-legged can figure out how to properly present themselves, I’m trying to understand how some of these women are even here.

Who told Miss CA to pose like that? Of all the features to draw our attention to, THAT is not the one.

Miss ID has skunk bangs…maybe she’s been coasting on having nice tits because I don’t see it. Just read she wants to teach on overseas military bases and it’s starting to make sense.

Less than 10 photogenic women in a grouping of 51 and these women represent the best from their states. This is sad.

Take a look at the areas of studies for these women.

Communications and Marketing.

No education majors, veterinarians, dentists or doctors.

Communications and Marketing.

And the next time you watch a TV news broadcast with a breathless newscaster reading the news or presentation without any understanding, you'll recall those people who are reading the news.

Are reading the news.

I spoke too soon, Miss Idaho is an Education major?

Im guessing these contestants did their own hair and makeup for this photoshoot.

Professional makeup artist adjust for different lighting scenarios. Black and white photography requires a different type of makeup to photograph well.

I think I see tracks in the hairlines of some of these contestants, this is a flaw that should be edited out.

FWIW R46, Miss South Carolina is a rape survivor.

I didn't notice Miss Idahos skunk bangs, her jawline was the only thing I noticed.

She has a long, square jaw with a pointed tip.

Genetics are a bitch.

A good photo editor can adjust for genetic .........disappointment.

And, know your angles when you get your photograph taken.

Miss West Virginia is rather pretty. Her degree is in Animal and Poultry Science and her talent is Motivational Monologue.

She lives in a van down by the river.

You'll all be sorry, when Miss Greater Derry becomes Miss New Hampshire, and then Miss America.

I miss the swimsuit competition.

I think skunk bangs (chunky highlights) are coming back. We're going to see more women with Ginger Spice hair.

Every time they lack any discernible talent they create an odd act. I still remember one who did “clowning” as her talent

Fingers crossed that one or more of them are mimes.

DL has spoken.

Miss Maine has it in the bag.

The same bag she vomited into in the Uber after winning the unofficial shots drinking contest.

Ms. Hawaii is gorgeous.

Lots of plain janes here. I wonder if Asian-Americans will start treating Miss America like they do the Spelling Bee.

Jesus. Is this a pageant or a pig party?

DC, Mississippi and Nebraska are all beautiful and also serving resting bitch face.

Miss Kentucky’s talent is clogging to “Banjo Fantasy”.

Miss Louisiana’s talent is Contemporary Clogging.

Is clogging a thing now?

There’s a long history of clogging @ Miss America!

If you haven't got any real talent you can always stomp around like a clydesdale with a technique learned in 5 minutes.

[quote] Miss New York is a big boned gal. Or, a tranny.

Miss New York is the prettiest and, yes, they all look like trannies.

Yes, NY is a looker.

I hate the 1980s senior-photo styling, posing with their hand holding up their face.

Here she is... Miss America 2023.

I was still prettier than all these broads when I was 40 years old!

And Bess could actually play classical piano. She was so clearly the best contestant that year—a slam dunk…she tells the story of being begged to change her name for the pageant, which she refused to do.

Lol at how tragic they all look. The gays can't even have the beauty pageants any longer. The wokees have truly ruined everything.

"Woke" is the way they call you an "en word" lover.

[quote] Miss West Virginia is rather pretty. Her degree is in Animal and Poultry Science and her talent is Motivational Monologue.

I thought you were joking. Her talent really is Motivational Monologue. Maybe the slot for shooting ping pong balls out of her ass was already taken.

The pageant has been in trouble for some time and might not survive another few years. They have no tv/streaming contract and they have gone from having it in convention hall in Atlantic City to a smaller event center at the Mohegan sun next month.

Ohio’s mother and 2 aunts competed at Miss America. They are all classical pianists.

A few years ago a former Miss America was going to auction off her crown for charity, and it didn’t get one bid.

Oregon is… off. No lip and a Karen cut.

South Carolina looks tranny as hell.

Miss America is the WORST.

I agree, OP. The photographer really fouled this one up. These look like photos of realtors and bank loan brokers in a Midwestern city.

OP here—I thought you guys might rag on the photo quality a bit more…my high school homecoming Queen got better photo treatment in our senior yearbook!

That said, based on these pages, I would say the likely winner is from OHIO, Hawaii or New York…at least under the “old system.” Ultimately, who cares—except to note that Miss America was the OG reality show. It ruled American tv ratings for two decades.

When I first started looking at these beauties I knew exactly what miss MA was going to look like. Ugh

R83, if I recall correctly, even back in the good old days, the New England Misses were rarely very pretty.

It's funny to remember how excited little gay me would get at the age of 8 or 9 to watch the Miss America pageant at my grandparents' house. Grandma was ruthlessly critical and a talented mimic - she'd fit right in at the DL! - and would mock the contestants whom she deemed unworthy of such an exalted event. The pageant was right up there with the Oscars as far as I was concerned as a annual ritual that generated nervous excitement for days ahead of time.

[quote]if I recall correctly, even back in the good old days, the New England Misses were rarely very pretty.

I told you all this over 30 years ago!

I loved Miss America too. Our local paper (which helped sponsor the Miss Alabama Pageant) would run a feature showing different outfits Miss Alabama was going to wear during pageant week.

R84 here is a brief shining moment for Miss Massachusetts

…strangely, in the late 60s/early 70s, New England did very well in the top 5 / top 10,

R87, thank you for that. September 7, 1968. There's no doubt I was watching. I almost teared up when Bert started singing "There She Is". We mock it now, but winning Miss America was a big deal for these women. The tearful thrill (theirs, not mine) was real. All that and Bess Myerson, too!

The winner, Judith Ford, Miss Illinois, was very pretty in a typical Miss America wholesome way. She's still alive at 72 and seems to have aged well as of 2015.

It being 1968, there were feminists protesting outside the Convention Center. Apparently, they threw bras and other feminine products (I don't know if that included FDS) into a trash can. A newspaper headline conflated that act with draft-card burning, and the famous "Women's Lib" bra-burning legend was born. (Well, it was famous at the time.)

Though the blondes didn’t fare as well in the B&W photos, Miss OK still looks like she could finish in the money.

And every one ... a VIRGIN.

[quote]If you haven't got any real talent you can always stomp around like a clydesdale with a technique learned in 5 minutes.

Jane Jayroe, Miss America 1966–67, conducted the pageant orchestra, and she knew it was a lame, stupid talent. She never expected to place, much less win, and she had never done pageants before her sorority sisters talked her into entering her school's preliminary. She even considered quitting during her reign because she thought she wasn't doing a good job. She went on to become a well-known local news anchor in Oklahoma City and Dallas.

Which one of them will be shooting ping pong balls out of their twat?

r89, Miss Oklahoma looks to be about 42. Who the fuck took these photos? The lighting is wrong (you can see every shadow, pore, and glug of makeup on the girl's faces).

The photos themselves suck. They all look washed out, it doesn't even look like a professional took them. A lot of them look like they're wearing Century 21 Realtor jackets, too. The blondes look the worst. Dry hair, dry skin, overly expressive expressions, ( some not enough though). A 16 yr old kid could have taken better photos. Just pretty damned bad for Miss America.

Miss America? I think you're mistaken OP. This is actually Crufts.

South Carolina is for sure a man. Also maybe New Mexico, among others.

[quote] South Carolina is for sure a man. Also maybe New Mexico, among others.

R96 is guilty of hate speech!!

College Major: English, Minor in Political Science

Scholarship Winnings: $70,000

Scholastic Honors: Dean’s List, Cum Laude Graduate, SC life Scholarship Recipient, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Quill and Scroll Journalism Honor Society

Career Ambition: To become a prosecutor focused on ensuring crime victims have as many rights as perpetrators

Talent: Vocal

Social Impact Initiative: As a rape survivor myself, I know firsthand that America has a problem with sexual assault. My goal is to shatter the cycle of silence surrounding rape culture.

What is the best advice you’ve ever received? My grandmother always told me, “Never pass up tiramisu if it is on the dessert menu!”

Miss Georgia and Miss Ohio seem lovely. The rest ... to me, not so much.

Miss Maine is the trainwreck we need and deserve,

Still can't believe that nice Bess Myerson was a crook

R91 Miss California was robbed that year

This freak show has been near death for years.

The photos are barely "resume head shot" quality.

It's good to see faces with character though.

One must assume they are all virgins

The poses are ridiculous and I’ve yet to see their bodies, but miss Ohio looks like the winner to me based on these photos…

Gaylings today will never know the spectacle of a huge Miss America pageant. It was family viewing for all!

[quote]Jane Jayroe, Miss America 1966–67

It's Jane ANNE Jayroe! The middle name is MANDATORY.

No it's not. But they did want me to change my name to something more Aryan-sounding.

Which d-list celebrity is hosting?

Miss USA pageant or Miss FAS pageant ?!? Damn that is a kennel chock full of mutts ! A couple are marginally pretty,but not one is truly beautiful.

The photos were unannounced prior to a meeting with all the contestants. The photos were taken when the meeting was over. They had no time to change outfits or adjust makeup and hair. I guess the organization feels you should be prepared for anything during your reign.

Over two-thirds of the final score is based on talent and private interviews. They are looking for ambitious women, not those who look good in a swimsuit or hide behind makeup and hair.

I think the organization moved to change too quickly and suddenly. Supporters and sponsors were not prepared for the changes. Some former Miss Americas refuse to have anything to do with the new program, solely because they were not kept in the loop. Only about 25 former Miss Americas showed up for the 100th anniversary pageant.

It's snowballing fast. It was a pop-cultural entity that has run its course.

R111, its course would still be alive, if controversial (and thus more interesting), if they had maintained emphasis on being a beauty pageant. Miss America always pretended the other stuff mattered - and it did at the margins - but first and foremost it was about being physically attractive. They should have stuck with that and damn what the feminists thought. By trying to appease "modern sensibilities" they killed the goose that laid the golden egg. If they were still proudly and openly about beautiful women who were also talented and poised, they could do quite well.

The evening gown competition was must see tv in our house. Mother and I were glued to the set. "I cant believe how low cut her dress is Mother" ! "I know,are they allowing loose women now?" Good times !

Was there some big reckoning with the Miss America pageant? When did it happen? Because these women are distinctly average looking if not homely. I remember the pageants when I was a kid and the women all had the same kind of look, even features, thick glossy hair, lots of white teeth and the same smile, like a rectangle shape. It used to fascinate me because I couldn’t get my lips to make that shape. They looked like they were created in the same factory. These girls look like they work in the factory.

[quote]Was there some big reckoning with the Miss America pageant?

Yes.

[quote]When did it happen?

In 2018.

Yet more evidence that the 2010s were a disastrous decade, exceeded to date only by the 2020s.

The two Laurens are the prettiest ones. The black girls are pretty, too.

Sadly, most of these women look like they stepped out of a trailer park.

These pageants are fucking ridiculous. No one watches this shit anymore. No one cares.

Gross.

If someone put a gun to my head and forced me to name the most recent Miss America, rather than say “I don’t know,” I’d guess Heather Whitestone or Leanza Cornett. I haven’t followed the pageant since the mid-90’s.

People who used to watch this now watch reality tv love shows with hot bodies on display. This genre will never go away. Just the formatting will change.

Years ago we received a visit from a former contestant who competed with Vanessa Williams and later came out (Trelynda Kerr, Miss Oklahoma 1983–84). She was very nice but didn't spill any tea as I recall.

Whatever happened to the lesbian Miss America from Alabama, who came out publicly and then married her wife?

That was a shocker.

Kate Shindle, Miss America 1998, has been in several Broadway shows and is currently the president of Actors Equity.

^ mediocre on both counts…she peaked early at Northwestern and as Miss America.

[quote]Whatever happened to the lesbian Miss America from Alabama, who came out publicly and then married her wife?

Deidre Downs Gunn (who, oddly, kept her husband's name) is a fertility doctor. She has a son from her first marriage, and her wife carried their daughter.

R4 is probably Marjorie Taylor Greene. Bigot.

Beanie Felicity Feldstein would absolutely win Miss America if she were to compete. There, I said it.

You can never have enough hats, gloves and shoes.

If you're a Miss America nerd, PageantsHayDay on YouTube is a gold mine. It's interesting to see how the pageant subtly evolved over the years—for example, for 1969–1970 they dropped Bess Myerson as co-host to be more "hip" and "with it."

OMG. The hairstyles in that "parade of states". My sister had Barbies wearing dresses like those.

Many proponents of the return of swimsuits express one prevailing thought in mind.

"You won't be successful in your life unless you are thin and pretty."

The elephant in the room....

[quote]"You won't be successful in your life unless you are thin and pretty."

Well, it helps.

Each of the ladies really capture this year's theme, each in their own way.

It's in December now? In an otherwise boring month, I always looked forward to it in September....twenty years ago, when I watched it.

My college's library had the first Miss America tell-all book, sportswriter Frank Deford's [italic]There She Is: The Life and Times of Miss America.[/italic] It was published in 1971 but was a pretty dishy read for the time. Yolande Betbeze Fox, Miss America 1951, told the author that most of the other contestants were huge bitches to her and posted a sign in her backstage dressing area reading HAIRY SITS HERE (a reference to her thick Liz Taylor–ish eyebrows).

I enjoyed The Miss America, Miss USA & Miss USA pageants as a baby gayling in the 80s and 90s. But admittedly in the hellish atmosphere we call today's world, it all seems so irrelevant and passe.

Do you think The Miss America Organization will give in to the "Stunning And Brave" misfits and let Trannys, DragRacers, Non-Binaries, Lizzo 400 Pounders, Handicaps, Dwarfs, Tattoo/Piercing Circus Freaks,etc) compete?

Or will they just say "Fuck It" and let the whole organization become defunct?

Vintage Miss America thread from 2009 featuring special guest Trelynda Kerr. She had nothing but great things to say about her experience and said she and pretty much every other contestant knew Vanessa Williams was going to win in 1983.

I meant Miss America, Miss USA & MISS UNIVERSE Pageants at R135

Which one will Eric Trump fuck on the table?

Kate Schindle (MA 1998) is awesome.

Very gay friendly.

One of only two Miss Americas to win with an AIDS awareness platform.

Thanks for linking that thread, R136! I had heard about Trelynda coming out (I think through a YouTube comment) but didn't know she visited Datalounge in 2009 (this was years before I discovered this place).

Now I need to link the opening number of Miss America 1984. It's so over-the-top in its cheesiness, I love it. "GO FOR IT!!!" and the Miss America dancers.....

Here's the entire thing, complete with commercials.

[quote]For 1969–1970 they dropped Bess Myerson as co-host to be more "hip" and "with it."

I stand corrected—Bess dropped the TV gig after she was appointed NYC's commissioner for consumer affairs.

Oh my god r140, when they come out and it's all business.

"Go for it!"

The Miss America alumnae segment right after this (R141) is super-cringey as well:

"Following her reign, Bettypam built a successful career performing interpretive dance for the retarded!"

[quote] "Following her reign, Bettypam built a successful career performing interpretive dance for the retarded!"

Her next project will be working with the coloreds and orientals!

Pam Battles, Miss Alabama, was wrong for that feather-and-sofa-cover power suit in the opening parade of contestants.

There is no Miss America for 1950. The winner of the pageant the season after 1949 was crowned Miss America 1951 so that most of her reign would be in the current year.

The pageant was held in September, 1950.

Damn. These pics are awful.

The Pageant is a history lesson in pop culture.

Look at how the contestants dressed for the parade of states. All jet-setting by flying in an airplane. Most of them are beautiful by today's standards.

It used to be everybody dressed in their best to travel by air. Here in 1968. The good old days I remember....

Miss Alaska won. Asian American

^No, that was last year. These pics are of the upcoming crop.

Miss Rhode Island Miss New York Miss Colorado

[quote] Miss Alaska won. Asian American

She was a total dog, too.

Why do a pageant if you don't have pretty girls? Some of them are just not very pretty.

[quote] Miss Alaska won. Asian American

[quote] She was a total dog, too.

She'll be seen next as a contestant in the Iditarod.

I think she is adorable. I have never seen a pageant contestant speak so honestly about her flaws. The other contestants were thrilled she won. The judges were previous Miss Americas. They know the job best and picked an excellent winner.

This introduction of former Miss Americas at the 90th anniversary pageant.

[quote] The other contestants were thrilled she won.

They always are, it’s called “being a good sport.”

Is it being held at Westminster?…

You know when the contestants don't like the winner. They don't clap. They don't smile. They gather around the runners-up, just a few offering congratulations to the winner. I've seen it several times. In each case, the winner was reportedly a bitch to the others all week. It's uncomfortable to watch.

Everyone LOVED Heather Whitestone.

Her crowning was special, I have to admit.

In perspective, Heather Whitestone is the first deaf Miss America. She wasn't aware she had won until first runner-up Cullen Johnson pointed to her to indicate she had.

[quote]You know when the contestants don't like the winner. They don't clap. They don't smile. They gather around the runners-up, just a few offering congratulations to the winner. I've seen it several times. In each case, the winner was reportedly a bitch to the others all week. It's uncomfortable to watch.

I love this clip from the 2015 Miss Amazonas pageant in Brazil—not only the bitter runner-up but the contestant off to the side who's all "Clap for this hooker, y'all!"

Miss Congeniality, my ass.

And of course, it wouldn't be a proper pageant thread without the Miss Gay Brazil Wig Snatch.

R87, R91: Say what you will, but Bert Parks knew how to call a paegant. R128: There's Miss Susan Anton as Miss California.

Heather Whitestone danced en pointe for her talent. Because she was deaf, she could not hear the music, but she counted steps and felt the vibrations of the notes.

Some in the audience stomped their feet so she could feel the applause. I've never seen a response like that during a Miss America pageant. I was told there were tears aplenty in Convention Hall.

Vanessa Williams' winning talent.

What's up with those photos? Half of them are touching their chins. Is that some sort of signal to the outside world? Are they calling for help, or just signaling the Mothership?

These women are almost all not very attractive. Some are really fug.

I love Miss Georgia. She has a great vibe and I hope she wins.

[quote]Heather Whitestone danced en pointe for her talent. Because she was deaf, she could not hear the music, but she counted steps and felt the vibrations of the notes.

[quote]Some in the audience stomped their feet so she could feel the applause. I've never seen a response like that during a Miss America pageant. I was told there were tears aplenty in Convention Hall.

Paige Phillips, Miss Alabama 1980, got a similarly long and enthusiastic ovation after her ventriloquism talent at Miss America 1981. She was only 17 at the time, which probably worked against her winning (she came in first runner-up).

Miss Maine and fetal alcohol syndrome come to mind

R172 she’s tarted up for 17

Interesting that Ms Ohio’s talent is classical piano. Her stubby little sausage fingers must really have to work like mad to pound out a tune.

R112 I think Gretchen Carlson in the late 80s or early 90s (?) won mostly due to her impressive violin performance. Physically she was more of a stocky little scrunch-faced troll.

I love that the Christlike Heather Whitestone called out Gretch for being a raging cunt.

Gretchen Carlson won Miss America 1989 in September 1988. Like Vanessa Williams, she won her local and the state pageant in her first try.

William Goldman, one of the preliminary judges, called her "Miss Piggy" in his book.

Here's Miss Ohio's talent, performed in the state pageant.

Funny that Miss Kentucky 2022 is clogging to Banjo Fantasy, Miss Kentucky 1992 also clogged to it at the Miss America pageant.

Can any of these hoes blast it out on a flute like Lizzo?

When is the actual pageant?

R181 Miss Oklahoma sure tries but I don’t think anyone can outblast Lizzo.

Dueling Banjos on the flute is what MANY Miss America contestants who played the flute use.

Here is Shirley Cothrans Miss America 1975 playing the flute. She only knew one song on the flute and there has been rumors over the years that after the preliminary competition that 4 really talented girls were replaced in the top 10 by 4 marginally talented ones to make in order justify Cothrans win.

A flute player from the 1973 pageant Judy Hieke Miss Wisconsin who was a talented trained musician who finished 1st runner up that year. Hiekes father was pulled aside after the preliminary competition and told by a state pageant official that she would not be allowed to win because the reigning Miss America was from Wisconsin and at the time they couldn’t have back to back winner from the same stare. He was told that the pageant almost went bankrupt in 1960 after there were back to back winners from Mississippi.

Sorry here is Judy Hieke Miss Wisconsin 1973.

I still can't believe these girls are beauty pageant winners.

Judy wasn’t going to win, and she didn’t. The winner was a surprise, only to herself…Rebecca King wowed the judges in every which way, and she was publicly pro-choice.

r184 Did Shirl ever go to band camp?

This was one of my favorite Miss America pageants.

Miss America 2002 was held literally DAYS after 9/11, in New Jersey.

They were going back and forth about whether or not to cancel the pageant, but they went ahead with it.

For me, it helped get my mind off the 9/11 attacks, and it stirred up a bit of national pride, to be honest.

It was a nice little bright light, after such darkness.

She was also dumpy looking and has zero talent r188 which is why it was a shock when she won. A similar thing happened a few years later when tawny Godin won. Tawny is considered one of the biggest cunts to deal with as far as former Miss Americas go.

Sam Haskell the ceo who had to resign aftera series of emails that were released that disparaged a number of former winners among other things wrote that a lot of them were a pain in the ass and were bitter that they didn’t make it in show biz. One of his lackeys called them former Miss cunts.

They threw out Sam and brought in Gretchen Carlson who was worse and ran the program into the ground and caused a huge rift between former winners.

Dumpy? She had an All-American face & form! And a brain.

Was Tawny Kitten ever a Miss America?

The Pageant has gone downhill since Gretchen Carlson took over its administration. She was replaced with people who were even more clueless about making it relevant to the public.

Last year it was streamed on Peacock. This year you need to pay a website called PageantsLive to see the live streaming of the pageant for a $33 dollar a month membership. After the first month, you can cancel the membership.

The finals at this Thursday, December 15th at 8:00pm at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. I doubt more than 100,000 people will watch it.

It's really sad what's happened here.

Jesus, that website is janky as hell, R194.

Miss America now joins such esteemed company as Miss Maine United States of America; Miss Texas Elementary, Junior High, High School, and Collegiate America; America's Ideal Miss; America's Elegant Miss; National Imperial Miss; Ultimate International Miss; Miss Cheerleader America USA (isn't "America USA" redundant, like such as?); Miss International Cinderella; Miss Bikini Swimsuit and Fitness Model Search: and Miss Cosmos (featuring Miss, Mrs., Ms., Teen, and Mini Miss categories).

I refuse to subscribe until they start carrying Miss Valdosta Feed & Grain.

First night of prelims 🤢

This year's contest is produced so much better than in the past several years.

Still, the stream froze a lot tonight. I didn't get to see my favorite contestant's talent. Hopefully I'll see her Thursday night in the top ten.

Miss Tennessee plays the jew’s harp and clogs.

How does Beanie do in her salute to Funny Girl?

Yay! I was hoping Miss Georgia would advance! She has such a beautiful smile, and comes off as really genuine and kind..

[quote]Yay! I was hoping Miss Georgia would advance! She has such a beautiful smile, and comes off as really genuine and kind..

She's a whore, darling.

Does Miss Delaware suffer from FAS?

Oops, I meant Miss Maine.

North Dakota's implants have gone south for the winter.

Miss Alabama and Indiana are homely af…

😂 at Miss Wisconsin’s name…

I like Miss Kansas.

The new Miss America is Grace Stanke, Miss Wisconsin, from Wausau and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She's a nuclear engineering student and a classical violinist.

Honestly, she was the only one in the final five who answered the question she was asked. I think it pushed her to the finish line.

She was shocked she won!

A popular choice of the other contestants.

I hope her last name is pronounced “Stahn-kay” and not “stanky” (like Gretchen Carlson’s pussy)

[quote] The new Miss America is Grace Stanke

This STANKS!

Wow! I’ve never seen a reaction like that at a pageant. Amazing.

Who were the finalists?

Several of them look special needs.

Of all odd things, I follow Miss New York on TikTok—I actually found her when she posted some really funny videos. Had no idea she was a pageant contestant until afterward. She’s really gorgeous.

Wisconsin NY Texas WVa Georgia

The winner is not very attractive by historical standards…but she is tall.

See you all at next year's pageant!

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Miss America used to be a primetime, network broadcast on the second Saturday of September. It was a lead news story on the 11:00 pm news.

Tsk, tsk tsk.

[quote] You'd think that the least those maga redneck states could do is produce attractive women for Miss America since they contribute nothing else to the country.

Well, they produce headlines!

They surely do!

I'm a couple hours from Wausau and have locals in my town with that last name haha. It always made me chuckle.

Was Anne He he a pageant girl?

It looks so sad and low-budget now.

So a $50,000 scholarship for the winner? And the others got quite a bit less. When you factor in all the money spent by the contestant for talent lessons, dresses, coaching, etc. does she really come out ahead? Unless the state pageant foots a lot of the bills, I don't see it.

Personally, I will be watching the Miss New Hampshire 2023 race very carefully.

If I had to put money on it, I would bet that Brian Nguyen ("Miss" Greater Derry) isn't getting anywhere near that crown.

It would be an outrage!

Speaking of "Miss" Greater Derry, I've noticed that "she" is not on the current Local Titleholders page, even though Brian won the pageant.

Is the Miss New Hampshire Organization filing a protest or something?

This should get interesting.

Not sure r224 but Anne spent a portion of her childhood in Atlantic City. Here she is with future Miss New Jersey and default Miss America Suzette Charles when she won the Miss Columbus Day pageant in 1981.

R266. That’s not all of the $, but just the official “prize.” Historically, Miss America was paid by sponsors for each appearance around the country (the winner would easily be booked for two-three hundred appearances over a year; a “good” Miss America could easily clear an extra $100K as income during her reign.

[quote] a “good” Miss America could easily clear an extra $100K as income during her reign.

Oh yeah?

Well a good Miss USA could easily clear $1,000,000 if she played her cards right.

[quote] Well a good Miss USA could easily clear $1,000,000 if she played her cards right.

Or she could just do porn, like I did!

Miss Wisconsin won? Bet Aaron Rodgers can’t wait to tap that ass.

Cheryl Prewitt Salem, Miss America 1980, is an insane anti-vaxxer and religious freak who looks like a geriatric stripper. Be sure to read the entire thing.

She was hyper-religious even then. At times during her reign, she said God would lift her off of her feet and let her fly. She was serious about it, too.

Notice Bert Park's senility was starting to show.

[quote]Notice Bert Park's senility was starting to show.

Oh, dear.

So many past winners have ultra conservative views. Wasn’t one former Miss America quoted as saying that she disapproved of interracial marriage?

Yes, that was Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999.

I hope Nicole Johnson gets AIDS.