Beauty queen turns in crown after #MeToo joke at Miss Massachusetts pageant

[MrsCoffee]

Beauty queen turns in crown after #MeToo joke at Miss Massachusetts pageant
By Amanda Watts and Madison Park, CNN

Updated 3:01 AM ET, Mon July 9, 2018

(CNN)A beauty queen gave up her title after a skit was performed at the Miss Massachusetts competition that made fun of the #MeToo movement. Maude Gorman was one of the contestants in the Miss Massachusetts pageant earlier this month, when a crack about #MeToo was made on stage. Gorman, who said she was gang raped when she was 13, said the moment she heard the joke that she "instantly knew I had to do something. It was going to eat away at me if I didn't," she told CNN.

She resigned from her title of Miss Plymouth County 2018 last week, writing on Instagram: "While I'm grateful for the opportunities that @missamerica creates for young women, I am also internally conflicted; as the #metoo movement was mocked on stage during the final competition of Miss Massachusetts. 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.'"

A video containing a portion of the controversial skit was posted by the Observer.

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 American 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. The crowd cheers and laughs, and the skit continues.

Good for her. I can't believe shit like this still goes on.

[Ilsa]

1. I was confused. At first I thought the beauty queen

was the one doing the skit and was pushed into resigning her title. But it was a contestant that did it.

[marble falls]

2. Assumption is the mother of all fuckups. Headlines are crafted to draw you in.

[Roy Rolling]

7. Miss Plymouth County 2018 resigned

I think. Regardless, her suffering is real and life-altering. We all feel her pain at being reminded in any way of what happened. Is jokingly blaming the MeToo movement for no swimsuit competition in the Miss America pageant crossing the line? One thing for certain, the skit was dreadfully moronic and painful to watch.

Did anyone else watch?

[marble falls]

25. I'm surprised that the swimsuit "competition" was still part of it, let alone skits funnin' #metoo..

there is no humor anywhere with sexual assault and I think its reasonable to believe that programs like swimsuit competitions contribute to the objectification of women and feeds the social misfits of the incel "movement".

[Nitram]

5. Yes, it was ambiguous, so I read the article and figured it out.

[Dem_4_Life]

6. I was just as confused as you were at first.

That is disgusting though that they would allow a skit like that (not surprising just disappointing). I am proud of her though for standing up for herself and others in this way.

[Fla Dem]

20. I read it as it was intended. Guess it's all in the eye of the beholder.

Regardless, good on Maude Gorman.

[Cha]

27. I thought so, too.. and that's the

way it should have been.

[Nitram]

3. I guess their god is a creepy voyeur.

[Kind of Blue]

4. Brava, Maude Gorman. You really are a queen.

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We have to pick up the gauntlet when deplorable people, in our face, dare us to take a stand. A real star is born.

[Kind of Blue]

15. Thanks for the correction!

Trying to sneak in a break, reading too fast.

[Botany]

9. Ms. Gorman is a real beauty

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk2yHcBF737/?utm_source=ig_embed

[heaven05]

10. to me

this is a great example of RESIST the RW bullshit dressed up as a pig with lipstick. Ms Gorman

[IronLionZion]

11. Why would women mock the MeToo movement?

or anyone for that matter? It's a serious problem. Mocking it would enable the problem to continue.

Miss Gorman looks like a very strong beautiful survivor of horrific brutality at age 13.

Here's the CNN link.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/us/miss-massachusetts-contestant-me-too/index.html

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. You already know the answer...

many, many women are brainwashed by the riechwing. And many, many still support the PGIC. (p*ssy grabber in chief)

[Merlot]

16. Skit was probably written by a man

Just becasue it's a Miss Mass pagent doesn't mean it's run by women

Just think of trumpft trolling around the back stage of the pagents.

[calimary]

22. Well, why would ANY woman vote for Mr. "Grab 'Em By the Pussy?"

It just boggles the mind.

But I guess people vote against their best interests all the time, if the marketing is any “good.”

[spooky3]

28. Why would any MAN vote for him? Nt

[DesertRat]

13. Good for her!

[Honeycombe8]

14. Wow. That must have been hard to do. What a statement.

These contestants spend years and thousands of dollars preparing for competing. It's a big deal to give up the crown (and I supposed the winnings, whatever they were). Good for her!

[stevenleser]

30. She is a fellow OCR. Those races are great for building confidence.

She has a pic on her Instagram where she shows all of her medals from races. Pretty impressive. Looks like she has done at least 20. I’m on #3 this Saturday. When you do one you feel like you can do anything.

[PatrickforO]

17. You know, this whole beauty pageant thing perpetuates

our cultural tendency to judge men on ability and performance, while we judge women on how pretty they are.

Seems to me that until things like beauty pageants that overtly tell us that we ought to judge women primarily on their 'beauty' as defined within this patriarchal culture are nipped in the bud, our daughters and granddaughters won't even be close to being able to compete on an even playing field.

As to the skit, that's pretty sick.

This young lady has real spine. She will quite likely go far in her life.

[flibbitygiblets]

29. Exactly, why are beauty pageants still at ALL socially acceptable in the first place?

Are we in the 19th century?

Gee, that sounds SO empowering, standing around being scrutinized for how you LOOK. Where the hell do I sign up?

And the people who defend it are missing the point. Oh you get a prize for being the prettiest? Oh, well, then do carry on...
Oh wait, she has a talent too?

I just want to barf. No wonder that disgusting skit made it onto the stage. Hundreds of women, willingly subjugating themselves like that. What a shock they'd be put down for standing up against sexual violence.

[kchamberlin25]

18. Not that I at all agree

But I thought it was a sin to look at a woman with lust in your heart.

[dembotoz]

19. wow that took guts ....good for her

[Brainstormy]

21. Dressed as God?

wow. that's impressive.

[niyad]

23. the orange sexual predator mocked #MeToo the other day, why not other assholes? it

is open season on women out in plain sight.

[AwakeAtLast]

24. That is appalling!

I hope there is some kind of consequence for these people.

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. What the fucking fuck?!!! n/t