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Controversial Contest: The Nation’s Most Famous Pageant for Women Will Cease To Judge Contestants on Their Physical Appearance From its inception in 1921 to the present, the competition that overidealized femininity has earned admiration from many and intense disgust from others.
AFTER MONTHS OF INTENSE CONTROVERSY plaguing the Miss America Organization in 2018, Gretchen Carlson, Miss America 1989 and chairwoman of the governing body, announced that the nation’s most famous pageant for women would cease judging contestants on their physical appearance.