Many teen girls dream of modeling in beauty pageants; on a down side, the public has chosen to say beauty pageants sexualize women. However, this is false for the Miss USA Pageant. The Miss USA Pageant doesn’t sexualize women for the reason of having interviews on girl’s personalities, judging on confidence, and how the girls present themselves. The judges mostly look at the girl’s personality. At the beginning of the pageant, each contestant gives the judges a bio about themselves; with this, judges base their questions off of the contestant’s answers. According to Taylor Jobin, “Pageants mock women's intelligence by asking impossible questions” (Taylor Jobin). However, this is not true for each question asked in this competition is based
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A common thought for people to think that the bikini section of the pageant is to sexualize women; A New York times article states “Pageants sexualize women’s bodies and encourage conformity to ludicrous beauty standards.”(Blain Roberts). The pageant doesn’t sexualize women, it actually wants girls to be able to walk on stage with confidence. According to Simon McCarthy, beauty pageants even took out the swimsuit division from the teen contestants and switched it to active wear. The reason the future industries did this was to show different ways a girl can confidently walk down the stage. Girls of any size and any culture can participate and win the pageant or even win prizes such as most spirited contestant or spokes model. The spokes model competition shows a girl’s confidence in her voice as she reads a script in front of a recorder. The script this year was about how being physically beautiful is different than showing your inner beauty. This shows that the pageant is about being confident, not to embarrass or sexualize …show more content…
The Future Productions Interview Workbook says to “treat the pageant like a professional job because each contestant moving on will be representing her country.” Each contestant should wear little to no makeup and it should all be nude so the judges can see the natural beauty of each girl. Equally important, each contestant should have good posture and attitude to encourage other girls. Other girls won’t want to look up to a girl who slouches and has a bad attitude. Lisa Suhay wrote an article about a “mishap that happened at the Miss Universe Pageant.” The host, Steve Harvey, read the wrong name as the winner and the girl who thought she won, Miss Colombia, was understanding and congratulated the actual winner, Miss Philippines. Everyone was shocked that Miss Colombia was so nice and handled better than the “typical diva.” The truth is, each girl won her country pageant because they had a good attitude and knew how to handle any situation coming their way. In the long run, looks aren't everything in this competition; girls have to be able to show that they are professional. To conclude, the Miss USA Pageant does not sexualize women. This pageant Interviews girls on their personality, looks for confidence, and judges off of presentation. The Miss USA Pageant is a professional event and would not sexualize women, this organization wants to let girls be role models. It's not fair
A common thought for people to think that the bikini section of the pageant is to sexualize women; A New York times article states “Pageants sexualize women’s bodies and encourage conformity to ludicrous beauty standards.”(Blain Roberts). The pageant doesn’t sexualize women, it actually wants girls to be able to walk on stage with confidence. According to Simon McCarthy, beauty pageants even took out the swimsuit division from the teen contestants and switched it to active wear. The reason the future industries did this was to show different ways a girl can confidently walk down the stage. Girls of any size and any culture can participate and win the pageant or even win prizes such as most spirited contestant or spokes model. The spokes model competition shows a girl’s confidence in her voice as she reads a script in front of a recorder. The script this year was about how being physically beautiful is different than showing your inner beauty. This shows that the pageant is about being confident, not to embarrass or sexualize …show more content…
The Future Productions Interview Workbook says to “treat the pageant like a professional job because each contestant moving on will be representing her country.” Each contestant should wear little to no makeup and it should all be nude so the judges can see the natural beauty of each girl. Equally important, each contestant should have good posture and attitude to encourage other girls. Other girls won’t want to look up to a girl who slouches and has a bad attitude. Lisa Suhay wrote an article about a “mishap that happened at the Miss Universe Pageant.” The host, Steve Harvey, read the wrong name as the winner and the girl who thought she won, Miss Colombia, was understanding and congratulated the actual winner, Miss Philippines. Everyone was shocked that Miss Colombia was so nice and handled better than the “typical diva.” The truth is, each girl won her country pageant because they had a good attitude and knew how to handle any situation coming their way. In the long run, looks aren't everything in this competition; girls have to be able to show that they are professional. To conclude, the Miss USA Pageant does not sexualize women. This pageant Interviews girls on their personality, looks for confidence, and judges off of presentation. The Miss USA Pageant is a professional event and would not sexualize women, this organization wants to let girls be role models. It's not fair