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Miss USA

Notice that it's all women in the background?

This photo was taken at a pole dancing class, attended by students, doctors, lawyers, business owners, .....

Sheesh...she's wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

I read it was a stripping contest put on by a local radio station and that strippers were the judges.

She probably had less clothes on for the "racy" Miss USA photo shoot. Who cares?

It was a POLE dancing contest, not a stripping contest. There is a difference. Lots of women are taking pole dancing as an exercise class.

--native Detroiter in the know

I just expect way higher standards from the woman who wins Miss USA. I don't want to see pole dancing pictures, suggestive pictures, anything regarding drugs/drinking, and who knows what else. Call me an old soul or whatever, but too many little girls look up to these pageant contestants and winners. Sure, parents need to monitor their children and such, but little girls watch these women with open eyes and they have big dreams. These dreams of our little girls may pass in time, but it really is not too hard to find a lovely young woman to crown with a clean background for girls to look up to. It is sad that it is all about controversy, press, and money. At some point we really have to care about our little girls who just don't understand it all.

The sad thing is...I don't. Miss America? Sure. But I feel like I've come to expect seeing this sort of stuff from Miss USA. As KSUViolet said, this almost seems mild compared to some of the other things that have come out of that circuit.

Would I prefer higher standards? Obviously. But I wouldn't hold my breath. Trump seems to thrive off of the scandals.

Miss USA is a joke and has been ever since that Carrie (Kerri?) Prejan thing.

Better word choice would have been the way for me to go -- These contests have become a joke. My expectations are way higher. I would hope/wish others prefer much higher standards as well. I am sure there are some that do.

Unfortunately I'm not sure you can find many girls around that age who haven't had pictures taken of them drinking or dancing. This is what our world is now.

Not just now! In the 50's a woman from Baltimore won the crown under an assumed name and had to step down the next day when mavens from Baltimore recognized her as the wife of a deployed serviceman who had also been previously married and divorced at the tender age of 14. She went on to a little bit of fame and notoriety that she parlayed into two movies in Hollywood! I just heard this on NPR driving to work yesterday on the Baltimore station!

Nothing is wrong with drinking or dancing and nothing is wrong with having your picture taken while doing so.

If you don't want your daughter to watch miss usa don't let her watch miss usa, the behavior of the models outside of the modeling competetion really isn't relevant.

Miss USA is a trashier pageant than Miss America, so anything the contestants get caught doing does not surprise me.