miss america pageant | Matthew Dicks

This video encompasses so many of my fears for my students

By Matthew Dicks | September 19, 2015 |

I watch this video from the Jimmy Kimmel Show, and it encapsulates so many of my fears for my students. I’m afraid that they are growing up in a world with an African American President and legalized same sex marriage (two things I never thought I would see in my lifetime), and yet sexist, stupid, degrading…

Let’s put an end to the Miss America pageant by making anyone who watches it feel small and stupid and uninformed.

By Matthew Dicks | October 6, 2014 |

John Oliver’s takedown of the Miss America pageant on HBO’s Last Week Tonight was brilliant. The Miss America pageant is admittedly an easy target, but Oliver’s segment is both surgical and hilarious. I could not stop laughing. The Miss America pageant and all its bastard step children are like moldering, vestigial organs that should have…