Here she is...Miss America...

Today the Miss America Pageant will be broadcast live on ABC tonight at 9:00 on ABC. 

What are your thoughts on beauty pageants?  Does it make a difference that the girls are being awarded scholarships?

Competitors are judged in 5 areas:
Personal Interview - 25%
Talent - 35%
Swimsuit - 15%
Evening Wear - 20%
Onstage Question - 5%

What do you think?  Would you judge women you meet by these areas?  To be accurate, in the swimsuit competition the judges are looking at the physical fitness, poise, and posture of the girls and in the evening wear portion, they are judged on poise and bearing.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  Are you going to watch?

Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011, signs photographs at Langley Air Force Base, Va., March 21, 2011.

Also, here are some YA books involving pageants.  Enjoy =)

When sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, who is miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.

 

 

 

Dara Cohen, a junior pageant princess turned chubby teenager, reconnects with an estranged older sister whom her parents have disowned for mysterious reasons.

 

 

Back in Orlando for the summer, twelve-year-old Claire has difficulty connecting with her former best friends, but decides to prove her loyalty by entering Kissimmee's Miss Kiss beauty pageant.

 

 

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

 

 

The Miss Universe Pageant : then and now -- Beauty behind the scenes -- The body beautiful -- Flawless skin -- The mane event -- The eyes have it -- Lip service -- Nailing it -- The smile that beguiles -- Traveling right -- Teen beauty -- Your crowning moment -- Beyond the crown.