Miss America contestants can stop searching for that perfect, figure-flattering but modest, one- or two-piece bathing suit, and mix in a few KitKats.
The days of the annual pageant’s swimsuit competition are over.
“We are moving it forward,” organization chairwoman Gretchen Carlson, a former Miss America herself, said last week on ABC’s “Good Morning America, “and evolving it in this cultural revolution.”
Carlson knows a little something about the cultural revolution. After all, she helped spawn the #MeToo era in 2016 when she filed a harassment lawsuit against former Fox chairman Roger Ailes.
Feminists have said for years the swimsuit competition was a tired vestige of a sexist past when women were judged by their looks alone. Women, they have raged, are more than meets the eye and deserve respect for exactly who they are.