Discussion: Miss America Organization Loses TV Partner Over Emails Ridiculing Winners

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This is important news!

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I don’t work for college scholarship boards, but this language and behavior is shocking. They obviously don’t believe in the merit system, or have respect for the hard work and dedication of these students.
Oh wait - it’s a bunch of people salivating over women’s looks because they’re sex objects or moneymakers, never mind

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Dick Clark Productions says it has cut ties with the Miss America Organization over internal emails by pageant senior leadership that ridiculed past winners’ appearance, intelligence and sex lives.

The entire point of these so-called “pageants” is to enshrine male hypocrisy about the value of women. Professing to be shocked that the organizers are sexist jerks is ludicrous.

People should simply boycott these grotesque meat-markets until the organizers slink away.

Will it happen? I suppose I can dream.

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People behaving badly inside a ‘beauty pageant’ thats entire existence is based upon objectifying women? Never saw that coming.

It’s 20 years past time for all this absurd pageants to end.

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Well huh. I thought the only “beauty pageants” being held any more were for 8-year-old girls in small towns in West Texas. Really can’t imagine normal people sitting in front of TVs today watching “Miss America.” I guess they do but yeesh.

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Normal people do not.

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It’s probably important because of these 2 paragraphs:

In its own statement Thursday night, the Miss America Organization said that Haskell, who earns $500,000 a year as CEO, had apologized to the board for his comments. The statement did not say if he had apologized to the women mentioned by name in the emails, or whether such an apology was conveyed to them.

The organization said the emails “contain inappropriate language that is unbecoming at best and is not, in any way, indicative of the character and integrity of MAO or its representatives. Please note that MAO does not condone the use of inappropriate language and apologizes for this situation. The Board of Directors took the allegations very seriously, investigated them, and considers the matter closed.”

We’re living in a time of heightened sensitivity to the way some men deal with women. The facts that Haskell “apologized to the Board” but not to the women, and that the Board “investigated” the allegations “and considers the matter closed” are difficult to swallow at this moment in time.

Those who have said in this thread that beauty pageants are a relic are no doubt right. I think the Miss America pageant will have a hard time recovering from this.

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Shut it down. It exists to perpetuate misogyny.

Ask Voyeur Trump.

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Seriously I haven’t had a day job in ten years or so but when I did, going back a long time, I don’t remember anyone ever mentioning these things. And in the longest-running job I had there were a lot of regular folks around. They watched the reality shows, that kind of thing. But this, nary a mention.

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This one guy’s salary would pay for the retirement of 365 people.

What the Republican Congress wants to do is take away the retirement savings of 365 people, and give it to elites like this guy.

It’s called “expanding the donor base.”

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The comments are in stark contrast to the glowing, supportive
 statements Haskell repeatedly made in public about past title winners.

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I was surprised to learn a few years ago that the Miss America pageant was still around but as a kid in the 70s, we watched it every year.

I’m married to a Venezuelan and the Miss Universe pageant is HUGE for their country and all of Latin America. Venezuelan’s often win and it is a great point of national pride for the entire country – A country that does not have much to be proud of these days.

We have a Brazilian friend who is constantly teasing my husband with popular Latin American conspiracy theories of Venezuelan cheating including secret state sponsored undetectable plastic surgery. It’s completely nuts and very much like all the reports of doping by Olympic athletes.

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I met one.

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I found the article worth reading for the simple perfection of this mind-blowing hypocrisy, dishonesty and general flatulent statement:

"Please note that MAO does not condone the use of inappropriate language and apologizes for this situation. The Board of Directors took the allegations very seriously, investigated them, and considers the matter closed.”

… and yet Haskell still has his $500k job!

There ought to be a word for an official statement that disingenuous.

Plus, I really like that a guy has a name that is synonymous with “I say things to my buddies that I never say to adults.” Any relation?

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Oh, to be able to read and/or hear what trump said about contestants in his pageants. Those, I bet, would be beauts!

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I really don’t understand how so many people suck at making apologies and then don’t actually apologize for the most egregious offenses.

Please note that MAO does not condone the use of inappropriate language and apologizes for this situation. The Board of Directors took the allegations very seriously, investigated them, and considers the matter closed.”

So, for these folks, the use of inappropriate language is the problem and not the fact that this man thought it was acceptable to denigrate the women whose participation in this program paid him bank? The words, while harmful, are only a reflection of his attitude towards women, which is what should get him fired.

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Why hasn’t Haskell been fired?

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We were appalled…

…that they let this become public.

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Oh well, I guess the Weinstein company can step in.

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