By Elaine Magliaro

Last night, John Oliver did a segment on the Miss America Pageant. He talked about the “butt glue” contestants use to keep their bikini bottoms from riding up, the serious questions that contestants are expected to respond to in just twenty seconds, and—more importantly—called into question the pageant’s claim that it provides $45 million in scholarship funds to young “virginal” women who participate in its “beauty contest” every year.