No More Miss America! It was the protest of the 1. Miss America beauty pageant, organized by New York Radical Women, that launched Women's Liberation in the public consciousness. Several members of the group, including Carol Hanisch and Kathie Sarachild, managed to hang a banner over the balcony and shout, . August 2. 2, 1. 96. New York City. NO MORE MISS AMERICA! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOn September 7th in Atlantic City, the Annual Miss America Pageant will again crown . Women's Liberation Groups, black women, high- school and college women, women’s peace groups, women's welfare and social- work groups, women's job- equality groups, pro- birth control and pro- abortion groups- women of every political persuasion- all are invited to join us in a day- long boardwalk- theater event, starting at 1: 0. We will protest the image of Miss America, an image that oppresses women in every area in which it purports to represent us. There will be: Picket Lines; Guerrilla Theater; Leafleting; Lobbying Visits to the contestants urging our sisters to reject the Pageant Farce and join us; a huge Freedom Trash Can (into which we will throw bras, girdles, curlers, false eyelashes, wigs, and representative issues of Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home . Lots of other surprises are being planned (come and add your own!) but we do not plan heavy disruptive tactics and so do not expect a bad police scene. It should be a groovy day on the Boardwalk in the sun with our sisters. In case of arrests, however, we plan to reject all male authority and demand to be busted by policewomen only. But sympathetic men can donate money as well as cars and drivers. Weneedcars to transport people to New Jersey and back. Male reporters will be refused interviews. We reject patronizing reportage. Only newswomen will be recognized. Anyone interested in further information, and anyone willing to help with ideas, transportation, money, or anything, can write us at: P. O. Box 5. 31, Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, N. Y. 1. 00. 9, or telephone (2. On to Atlantic City! No More Women quotes - 1. There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the.The Ten Points We Protest: The Degrading Mindless- Boob- Girlie Symbol. The Pageant contestants epitomize the roles we are all forced to play as women. The parade down the runway blares the metaphor of the 4- H Club county fair, where the nervous animals are judged for teeth, fleece, etc., and where the best . So are women in our society forced daily to compete for male approval, enslaved by ludicrous . Since its inception in 1. Pageant has not had one Black finalist, and this has not been for a lack of test- case contestants. There has never been a Puerto Rican, Alaskan, Hawaiian, or Mexican- American winner. Nor has there ever been a true Miss America- an American Indian. Miss America as Military Death Mascot. VideoHound Lists with No More Women. Inheritance; Sail Away. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Stream No More Women From L.A by OfficialProta from desktop or your mobile device. A web page dedicated to No More Women. Rogell, and written by G. Download NO MORE WOMEN BLUES by LONNIE JOHNSON free. The highlight of her reign each year is a cheerleader- tour of American troops abroad- last year she went to Vietnam to pep- talk our husbands, fathers, sons and boyfriends into dying and killing with a better spirit. We refuse to be used as Mascots for Murder. The Consumer Con- Game. Miss America is a walking commercial for the Pageant's sponsors. Four Founding Women of Idle No More (L-R): Sheelah McLean, Nina Wilson, Sylvia McAdam & Jessica Gordon. Wind her up and she plugs your product on promotion tours and TV- all in an . What a shill. Competition Rigged and Unrigged. We deplore the encouragement of an American myth that oppresses men as well as women: the win- or- you’re- worthless competitive disease. Spindle, mutilate, and then discard tomorrow. What is so ignored as last year's Miss America? This only reflects the gospel of our Society, according to Saint Male: women must be young, juicy, malleable- hence age discrimination and the cult of youth. And we women are brainwashed into believing this ourselves! The Unbeatable Madonna- Whore Combination. Miss America and Playboy's centerfold are sisters over the skin. This informative post outlines the campaign and includes a statistic that is all too real: “1 in 2 women. To win approval, we must be both sexy and wholesome, delicate but able to cope, demure yet titillatingly bitchy. Deviation of any sort brings, we are told, disaster: . Miss America represents what women are supposed to be: inoffensive, bland, apolitical. If you are tall, short, over or under what weight The Man prescribes you should be, forget it. Personality, articulateness, intelligence, and commitment- unwise. Conformity is the key to the crown- and, by extension, to success in our Society. Miss America as Dream Equivalent To- ? In this reputedly democratic society, where every little boy supposedly can grow up to be President, what can every little girl hope to grow to be? Real power to control our own lives is restricted to men, while women get patronizing pseudo- power, an ermine clock and a bunch of flowers; men are judged by their actions, women by appearance. Miss America as Big Sister Watching You. The pageant exercises Thought Control, attempts to sear the Image onto our minds, to further make women oppressed and men oppressors; to enslave us all the more in high- heeled, low- status roles; to inculcate false values in young girls; women as beasts of buying; to seduce us to our selves before our own oppression. NO MORE MISS AMERICASUGGESTED READING: Carol Hanisch's criticism/self- criticism of the action, What Can Be Learned: A Critique of the Miss America Protest. Available from the archives in Redstockings First Literature List.
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