Miss Congeniality (America)

For me it was hard to focus and read this article. For one it wasn't too interesting of an article and two everytime I thought of the Miss America pageant I can't help but think of the movie Miss Congeniality. Its a movie where an undercover lady cop has to go undercover and pose as a contestent of Miss America in order to crack a case. Even in that movie contestents were made to seem spunky dumb valley girls. I agree with Kate Shindle when she says that the image of Miss America should be portrayed how it is. "If its about looks organizers should admit it, instead of capitalizing on the swimsuit competition while swearing that it is an insignificant part of the show." (616) In my many years of watching the Miss America Pageant(probably once and it was during a commercial break of my other show) but during that time the image portrayed to me was good looking rich girls are battling each other for who is the next barbie doll of America. I actually thought that the swimsuit part of the competition was the key part in winning the competition and the talent show was thrown in their just for laughs. As you can tell I definitely don't keep up with this subject and there are plenty of people out there like me. I think that the pageant should do more advertising about what it is really about and they should get more coverage on it to show people like me that it is a whole lot more than a superficial beauty pageant.