she said she supported the recent SC decision broadening the ability of law enforcement to collect DNA because people who are arrested have committed a crime.

moron.

Who are these people?

Why the heck can't they just take all of that money and just award scholarships to many more women based on their academic records and need?

The good news is that you are are free to put your money towards academic scholarships as you please...

if they are in school, they have to be "A" students, for instance.

Or how about just a general intelligence quiz to weed out the real hicks from the sticks?

Something we could be more proud of: beauty AND brains! The two are NOT mutually exclusive.

A beauty contest that operates under the pretense of being something more substantial. And the people who watch it.

If it's a beauty contest, make it a beauty contest, wearing bikinis, or even nude. Leave the smart discussions to women who arent competing in beauty contests! The whole idea of making the contest about being the perfect package for the judges is, in itself, kind of stupid.

Especially since people seem to pay attention to the Q&A part only when a contestant says something dumb. Just another excuse to judge others.

unlike some other contest which would be promoted as "hottest .........................." .

PZ Myers comments: "What’s really going on here is an effort to find supporting evidence for a bias that women in beauty pageants are stupid — and the media are happily jumping on one instance of a clumsy, misspoken answer as confirmation." Probably a distraction from all the NSA misdeeds! I wonder if Powell did this on purpose to troll the media.

In the meantime I searched a little on her background, and Powell is a singer who has attended Brigham Young University, the LDS university, but nothing clear about her religious background is public domain. So I'm just speculating that her religious upbringing or influence could have been why she couldn't answer the question well. The MWC Board suggests: "The correct answer should have been..."I don't go to school to get an education, I go to school so I can find a husband.....women shouldn't work anyway""

Why should beauty contestants be smarter than The Apprentice?

Good point

Do you have pictures to share?

But in your defense, Nye, very few men look good in a Speedo.

he appears to be wearing ladies' shoes...

n/t

She is gorgeous, and that is all I care about!

This person should be embarrassed that they used this line. What a judgmental little twit writing an article with no significance to society. There is my judgment.

shes probably not dumb at all, just can't handle being under the microscope, losing your train of thought and, viola, she's in bimbo land

but that's assuming they don't get the questions ahead of time.

live on national TV, and being hit with an unexpected question. I think I would have just panicked and clammed up. To her credit, Miss Utah stumbled through it and an answer out. Miss South Carolina was only 17 when she gave that infamous answer about geography.

It is certainly not a matter of intelligence. Part of what is being tested is poise and the ability for a contestant to handle herself in public. That is a very relevant skill for a pageant winner.

Maybe they should have coaches who prep them on these questions, just like Palin did!

And who was that judge anyhow?

Judging other human beings and letting them represent America, based pretty much on their looks alone. If we did elections like this, Sarah Palin might be POTUS today.

If you don't like it, use the "off" button...that's what I do.

My question is why do others enjoy it? It just seems a little bit degrading to me, especially since Trump got involved.

There is (and always has been) a sizable market for that sort of thing, after all.

Welcome to DU, a place on the internet where we can click "ignore" or "hide thread" instead of attempting to school the larger community on what we should do if we "don't like it."

nt

Just for this purpose.

Pickler on smarter than a fifth grader. Epic!

all about the scholarships & "platforms", LOL.

lets talk about her smile and eyelashes. They are awesome.

get as far in life as she has?

Putting on the makeup and doing the hair and nails takes more brains than she has.

They don't wake up one day and say 'hey, I wanna be Miss America'. Some of them have been doing this since they were little.

Celebrity Jeopardy

I swear, now they are just doing it for laughs.

Indeed

to a large urban district as CEO.

is to have a "quiver full of kids". Just ask Mitt Romney and Gayle Razicka of the Utah Eagle Forum.

She's just a nervous kid. Why are people attacking her?

They showed this.

unintentional self mocking comedy bit. Even the "do gooder" video clips of what Miss USA does for a year is laughable.
First you win a prize. Then you get to appear next to poor children in another country for a photo op to promote how giving and kind a corporate promotion tool like a beauty pageant can be. It's time to start rewarding and promoting on a grand scale teachers for good teaching, firemen for fighting fires, doctors for saving lives among other people who promote the betterment of all human beings. This is nothing more than a hold over of male time worn dominance and ogling of women.

Sure I'll hear, "Get over it." But it's hard to get over the absolute ridiculous parade of idiocy that is presented to us as something that is to be respected.

It was hilarious

I'm live in CT. Yay us!...I guess. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be proud of. A pretty girl managed to say something less stupid than another pretty girl. And now she will go on tours representing our state. Whoo-hoo!

This is as famous as she'll ever be, and for all the wrong reasons. And she probably practiced for half her life to reach this pinnacle. Sad.

We have the internet now...just post pictures of pretty women in evening gowns and swimsuits and let people vote on them. Does anyone really, REALLY, care about their opinions on educationalism or world trades? This whole moronic episode is as insulting to men as it is to women. (BTW: Note to Swarm...I'm kidding about the internet polling thing...but you wouldn't know because you all have me on ignore anyway).

On a tangential note, we need to stop the Miss. Universe Pageant, too. It is totally fixed. Someone from Earth ALWAYS wins!