I'm blogging about this not because there's anything inherently exciting about the woman who won it: Miss Georgia, Betty Cantrell.
Granted, she's a pretty lady. I always have a small little cheer inside whenever someone from the big nose club wins something.
But (for me), the bigger thing of the event was the CEO of Miss America apologizing to Vanessa Williams.
Vanessa Williams, if you don't know — and I wouldn't be surprised because this happened before I was born — in 1983 she was the first black woman to ever win Miss America!
And even though she would go on to be pretty much the most successful Miss America winner ever, 10 months after she won the title, she forfeited it because reportedly she was pressured to give it up. This happening because Penthouse published nude photos that she had taken before she won the crown.
So this year, on top of the CEO apologizing for the pressure and everything they put her through, she was a judge. And I think that's great, but that's also 'cause I'm a person who doesn't understand why nudity is such a big deal.
A woman's body is a woman's body. While I personally find it fantastic, and gorgeous, and a work of art, it is 100% inherently hers, so what she does with it is her business. I don't understand why there's so many people and things in place to try and control that.
For research purposes, I went back and found those nude photos, and nude photos is (*licks lips*) accurate but is so broad of a word that you wouldn't expect to see someone licking her butthole.
Nonetheless, it's still about it, and I think people should stop hating.
Also, fun fact, the centerfold for the issue that Vanessa Williams is in is actually way more scandalous. It's notorious porn star, Traci Lords, who was photographed in this when she was *15*!
So wow!
Granted, she's a pretty lady. I always have a small little cheer inside whenever someone from the big nose club wins something.
But (for me), the bigger thing of the event was the CEO of Miss America apologizing to Vanessa Williams.
Vanessa Williams, if you don't know — and I wouldn't be surprised because this happened before I was born — in 1983 she was the first black woman to ever win Miss America!
And even though she would go on to be pretty much the most successful Miss America winner ever, 10 months after she won the title, she forfeited it because reportedly she was pressured to give it up. This happening because Penthouse published nude photos that she had taken before she won the crown.
So this year, on top of the CEO apologizing for the pressure and everything they put her through, she was a judge. And I think that's great, but that's also 'cause I'm a person who doesn't understand why nudity is such a big deal.
A woman's body is a woman's body. While I personally find it fantastic, and gorgeous, and a work of art, it is 100% inherently hers, so what she does with it is her business. I don't understand why there's so many people and things in place to try and control that.
For research purposes, I went back and found those nude photos, and nude photos is (*licks lips*) accurate but is so broad of a word that you wouldn't expect to see someone licking her butthole.
Nonetheless, it's still about it, and I think people should stop hating.
Also, fun fact, the centerfold for the issue that Vanessa Williams is in is actually way more scandalous. It's notorious porn star, Traci Lords, who was photographed in this when she was *15*!
So wow!
