I guess it's because we all gain weight in different places. Wouldn't it be amazing if, instead of just having plus sizes with generic fits there could be specialized fits for different shapes? So, 18 with larger hips would be different from 18 with a larger bust. It would be nice in straight sizes, too, although it…

I'm baffled you didn't catch the part where that isn't what the joke was about. Sheesh.

I agree. A mistake was made. That's the only real story here.

There was just a really interesting analysis of this in The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archi… It was like a breath of fresh air to see Will's article analyzed so clearly and objectively.

In all the times I've ever eaten with other people, the only ones I've ever heard being shamed for what they were (or were not) eating were the thin ones. Most people I'm around know it's not cool to comment on fat people's bodies, but they still haven't figured out that the same thing goes for commenting on thin…

"... we live and die by the belief that being unhealthy and thin is better than healthy and fat." Does anyone actually believe that? But whenever there's an article that has anything to do with weight on Jezebel, some people will try to say that one of the reasons that carrying too much weight is bad is that it…

I'm baffled that you think that's in any way relevant to the joke. Sheesh.

You mean Batman?

(I can't hear you anymore. I've accepted my parting gifts and am now standing in a corner with all the other people who had the audacity to say anything true, hanging my head in shame. So now I'm trying to redeem myself by saying something untrue.)

Come on, if the issue were actually the rules themselves, then this is a really outdated story - age rules in the Miss America competition (so, obviously also in the state competitions leading up to it) are nothing new. It's only an issue now because this one contestant was accepted into the competition even though…

Wow, not at all what I was expecting from this article, which I thought would just give people more reasons to hate GP. Now I want to buy her book - those recipes look amazing.

Oh! HAHAHAHAHAHA, that's hilarious!

Right. The cut-off is the end of the year. Longacre with be 25 at that point, whereas Lewis will be 24. Any confusion about that just stems from the fact that the writer of this article got it wrong. And I'm sorry, too, that I spend time commenting on what was just a poorly researched article.

You're still doing it, you don't see it, you don't know what "everyone" thinks, and there's no bullshit on my part - in fact, you and others are pissed off at me for calling bullshit instead of just finding you hilarious. Whatever.

Because pretending that this is about anything other than one pagent's set of rules, and that anyone who will be over the age of 24 by the end of this year is a victim of ageism, is fun? Well, it doesn't sound like it to me, but different strokes, so OK, then, have fun with that!

"... despite the fact that she is smoking hot enough to have won..." Was that also a critique of the underlying values of the contest? Come on. You just threw in the physical attractiveness thing at the very end of your comment, and I addressed it first so I could focus on the point of your joke, which had to do with…

No, according to the article in USA Today, she was born in 1990.

You do get that that's actually a mistake in the article, right? She's actually only 23 right now.

There are no other people like me. I'm an individual. Be as bigoted as you want, but I'm not going to enable you.

So in addition to being US-centric, you're prone to being bigoted against entire geographical areas on the basis of one Internet exchange. Nice.