Exploiting Women, keeping the profits

As always, you can find my source article by clicking the title.

You know how the Miss America Pageant likes to say they don't exploit women or encourage women to define themselves only by their physical attributes because they are the largest scholarship source for young women in the country? Well, apparently, NOT.

The article cites how pageant winners who try to collect their award scholarships, find red tape, fine print, closed up organizations, and unreturned phone calls.

I don't know for a fact, but have always heard that there are profits to be made in pageants. It seems to me that the fact that so many young women find that the scholarships they earned through pageant participation don't actually exist to be proof positive that many of these pageants are exactly what the critics say they are -- opportunities for individuals to make profits off the bodies of women.

BOOO. HISSS.