Pageants are one of the biggest things most little girls dream to be apart of. They see beautiful ball gowns, sparkly crowns and tall, beautiful and perfect girls that look like barbie dolls sashaying across the stage. They grow up dreaming of being crowned Miss Universe or Miss America. Pageants are apart of the media. They give girls an idea of what every female should look like. Society has already set standards for young girls that are hard to reach because everyone is different. Beauty pageants are exploitative because they are one of the biggest causes to females developing eating disorders, they can be a financial hardship, they make females become insecure and gain low selfesteem, and they use the pageant participants as walking sexual advertisements.
Although beauty pageants seem fun and …show more content…
You can’t be “beautiful” unless you’re dressed in almost nothing, wearing tons of makeup, dancing or performing scantily in front of an audience or judges, or being completely unnatural. Advertisers put the word “Beauty” in front of things like makeup or hair care products because it is intended to make a woman more attractive. For who? Since when did women have to rely on chemically made products that harm their skin to become more attractive or more sexually appealing to the opposite sex? Many people know that beauty pageants are not about being true and real. In pageants, the main question participants ask themselves is, what do the judges want to hear instead of being honest and saying what they are thinking when they are asked trivial questions. Participants wear sexy dresses, bathing suits, and skimpy costumes to get the most attention. Women are no longer people anymore, they are just a walking sexual objects and advertisements created for the appeal and usage of the male species as well as to pressure women and girls to buy “beauty” products so they can look beautiful
Although beauty pageants seem fun and …show more content…
You can’t be “beautiful” unless you’re dressed in almost nothing, wearing tons of makeup, dancing or performing scantily in front of an audience or judges, or being completely unnatural. Advertisers put the word “Beauty” in front of things like makeup or hair care products because it is intended to make a woman more attractive. For who? Since when did women have to rely on chemically made products that harm their skin to become more attractive or more sexually appealing to the opposite sex? Many people know that beauty pageants are not about being true and real. In pageants, the main question participants ask themselves is, what do the judges want to hear instead of being honest and saying what they are thinking when they are asked trivial questions. Participants wear sexy dresses, bathing suits, and skimpy costumes to get the most attention. Women are no longer people anymore, they are just a walking sexual objects and advertisements created for the appeal and usage of the male species as well as to pressure women and girls to buy “beauty” products so they can look beautiful