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A contestant in a state-level Miss America competition returned her Miss Plymouth County crown last week after a host of the Miss Massachusetts pageant mocked the #MeToo movement.
In a video reported by the Observer, during the final round of the competition, the host asks why Miss America would eliminate the swimsuit competition from the pageant. A person portraying God holds up a sign that says #MeToo, causing the crowd to laugh and cheer.
Maude Gorman did not see the skit but heard it while waiting offstage. She has said she is a sexual assault survivor. She told the Boston Globe in 2015, when she was Miss Massachusetts World, that she had been gang raped by three men when she was 13. In the years that followed, she struggled to sleep and dealt with PTSD, and she has since been vocal about her experience as a sexual assault survivor.
I really felt betrayed, Gorman told NBC Boston. To mock a movement that has empowered survivors to stand up is inappropriate, and especially a womens empowerment organization, should be unacceptable.
Soon afterward, Gorman decided to turn in her crown. On an Instagram post, she wrote, As both a survivor, and advocate for victims rights and sexual violence on a whole, I refuse to stand idly by and simply let this go.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/miss-massachusetts-contestant-returns-crown-after-pageant-mocks-metoo-movement.html
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Based on the description of events ...
Though I guess it would depend on the tone with which things were delivered.
Perhaps you 'had to be there' and these words don't adequately convey the reality of the situation.
In any case, if she felt mocked, then I support her decision to tell these people to shove it up their @$$, 100%.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)they cant have a swimsuit competition anymore simply cause of metoo. And made audience lough. Basically they mocked the movement by not taking it seriously.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/us/miss-massachusetts-contestant-me-too/index.html
In what the Observer described as part of the comedy sketch, a woman is onstage, kneeling and talking about how Miss America has scrapped the swimsuit portion from its competition.
"Miss America did away with the swimsuit competition," the woman says in the skit. "We may have very well seen the last ever swimsuit competition on stage. It's very upsetting and I'm trying to understand, God, why it happened."
"Me too, Amy," replies a man whom the Observer described as dressed as God and holding a #MeToo sign.
They're mocking the pageant's decision to drop that component and using the #MeToo hashtag to do so.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)FUCK THESE ASSHOLES, in this case.
Good on her!
(man, why did this have to happen in Massachusetts and not Alabama or Mississippi ... )