Her initial responses were “that’s weird” and “why would anyone do that?”.
After all, if they didn’t already exist, would any compassionate person invent them today? I asked my six-year-old what she thought of lining women up and deciding who was the most beautiful.
A century later, the world ought to put an end to these bizarre competitions. Next week will mark the 100th anniversary of the event. Then called the “Inter-city pageant”, the swimsuit competition took place as a draw for tourists in Atlantic City. But it was that same decade that saw the growth of beauty pageants, and the launch of the Miss America pageant in 1921. In 1920, women in the US were given the right to vote. Women, unsurprisingly did not want to take part, and there were lots of public protests. Having already held pageants for dogs, babies and birds, parading women was next on his list. You probably know him better as the man who invented the circus. We can credit PT Barnum for the first beauty pageant, held in 1854.
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