‘A competition in which entrants, usually women, are judged as to physical beauty and sometimes personality and talent, with the winners awarded prizes of titles.’ The definition of a beauty contest objectifies women. Pageants only shows the beauty of someone. Sometimes showing talent, which involves singing, dancing, or baton twirling. In pageants, women display ‘girly’ talents to make themselves seem more appealing than their competition . Beauty is not everything, beauty pageants and contests shows little girls that the only thing that matters is what they look like. Pageants discriminate against women, especially girls, only showing off their bodies and not what they have to say. Young girls are very impressionable and these contest show
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Some of the parents go to the extreme of getting their daughters perfect for these contests. From the dress and makeup, to the hair, shoes, and routine they all have to be perfect. The girls featured on the show are as young as one years old and are already having their hair and makeup done. Moms show more interest in the contest than most of the daughters. As the girls grow up they become interested in the glitz and glam, but at the age of one it’s the parents who wants the prizes and titles. The parents put stress on their kids by acting this way. Most overreact on small things, which only causes their child to …show more content…
The Miss America Organization offer millions of dollars each year to contest winners(). There are educational bonds available too(). Honestly, this is the main reason why anyone should do pageants. With the amount of money and different organizations to go through, almost every contestant should walk away with a reward. What they do with this money is up to them unless the money is specifically signed. When being in a pageant over a hundred-thousand dollars can go for one contestant(). That’s with the training, hair, makeup, clothes, and shoes. When they win money, half of it goes back into competing. Pageants aren’t cheap and requires the families to spend thousands of dollars. The spending goes up as the young girls advance and grow. While they are young the contest don’t cost nearly as much as the national level
Some of the parents go to the extreme of getting their daughters perfect for these contests. From the dress and makeup, to the hair, shoes, and routine they all have to be perfect. The girls featured on the show are as young as one years old and are already having their hair and makeup done. Moms show more interest in the contest than most of the daughters. As the girls grow up they become interested in the glitz and glam, but at the age of one it’s the parents who wants the prizes and titles. The parents put stress on their kids by acting this way. Most overreact on small things, which only causes their child to …show more content…
The Miss America Organization offer millions of dollars each year to contest winners(). There are educational bonds available too(). Honestly, this is the main reason why anyone should do pageants. With the amount of money and different organizations to go through, almost every contestant should walk away with a reward. What they do with this money is up to them unless the money is specifically signed. When being in a pageant over a hundred-thousand dollars can go for one contestant(). That’s with the training, hair, makeup, clothes, and shoes. When they win money, half of it goes back into competing. Pageants aren’t cheap and requires the families to spend thousands of dollars. The spending goes up as the young girls advance and grow. While they are young the contest don’t cost nearly as much as the national level