Too Old

Look at this old lady! Way too old for Miss America certainly. She’s almost 25, well past her prime for sure.

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At 24, Miss Delaware is too old, say officials

Yet another beauty pageant scandal: Less than two weeks after Amanda Longacre was crowned Miss Delaware, she's been stripped of the title because pageant officials say she's too old. Longacre is 24, and will still be 24 when the Miss America pageant is held in September—and she says she was told that as long as she was 24 during the Miss America competition, her age was not an issue. But officials now say that according to the fine print, Miss America can't turn 25 any time in 2014; Longacre's birthday is in October.

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I don’t know how much this is a scandal. To me, it’s a shame. 24 is too old for Miss America. 24! What does that say about an already venue suspect for disrespecting women. At the ancient age (sarcasm fully intended) of 24, is Delaware—and the pageant if it is their rule also—saying that women should be Mrs. by then? People are living longer and longer. You marry young nowadays, you are going to be with that partner a long, LONG time. Sam Kinnison would be rolling over in his graves.

Note also that it says the winner did not read the fine print. Then make it LARGE print, or be real, and eliminate it. This kind of age discrimination is outdated, but then again, so is the Miss America Pageant.