Go, Gretchen Carlson, Go.
There is some discussion about a "Fitness Component." I think that is a good idea, but, it should not be an on-stage performance issue. The fitness component can be part of the preliminary requirements at the grassroots level and then verified at any competition all the way to the final Miss America pageant.
Can a woman be that skinny and still be healthy and fit? We will find out.
By Matthew Haag and Cara Buckley
For the first time (click here) in nearly a century, Miss America contestants will not strut onstage in swimsuits this year, the organizers announced on Tuesday, as the pageant tries to redefine its role in an era of female empowerment and gender equality.
Miss America and swimsuits have been synonymous since its first contest in 1921 on the Atlantic City boardwalk. But what started as contestants wearing one-piece bathing suits, conservative by today’s standards, became women in revealing bikinis and high heels parading around for a leering television audience.
Now under mostly female leadership, the Miss America Organization said Tuesday that it was scrapping the swimsuit competition, starting at the national contest in September, in a sweeping change that will also reshape local and state contests....
The success of the #MeToo movement continues...
June 6, 2018
By David Jackson, Jennifer Smith Richards, Gary Marx and Juan Perez Jr.
They were top athletes (click here) and honor-roll students, children struggling to read and teenagers seeking guidance.
But then they became prey, among the many students raped or sexually abused during the last decade by trusted adults working in the Chicago Public Schools as district officials repeated obvious child-protection mistakes.
Their lives were upended, their futures clouded and their pain unacknowledged as a districtwide problem was kept under wraps. A Tribune analysis indicates that hundreds of students were harmed.
Drawing on police data, public and confidential records, and interviews with teens and young adults who spoke out, a Tribune investigation broke through the silence and secrecy surrounding these cases and found that:
When students summoned the courage to disclose abuse, teachers and principals failed to alert child welfare investigators or police despite the state’s mandated reporter law....
The students are being taken seriously because a candidate for election started a political attack based on the statistics from the Chicago Public Schools. Mayor Rahm Emanuel (click here) has apologized for the circumstances children faced, but, wants a dialogue to end the loop holes and abuse that has allowed the problems to exist in the first place. There are brave students, parents and teachers willing to talk to authorities about their experiences, in the same brave manner the first #MeToo victims disclosed their experiences.
The #MeToo movement is successful. It is successful in the USA and internationally and now it is successful in the image of the American woman and the children abused within their lives at school have now found a voice.
