The Sexualization Of Beauty Pageants

She was such a young girl; her whole life was ahead of her, and nothing could stand in her way. She thought that she had everything she ever wanted until that one competition when the judges threw her dreams down the drain. The young girl’s self esteem was totally wiped away from her; she thought that she was going to be the next Miss America in the coming years. Her mom just kept telling her that no matter what the judges said she was the most beautiful young lady in the world, but the little girl did not care to listen. Her whole life had been about the beauty pageants and looking the skinniest, or the being the most beautiful girl on that stage; little did she know that to her mom she was already all of those things. It is sad to say that …show more content…
Not only do women think small or short clothes are okay to wear, but that the only thing that matters is how pretty they are (“Beauty Pageants Pros and Cons List”). When young girls and women enter into a beauty pageant, they figure out that if they wear short skirts and small tops they will get a better score or win the competition because that it what they are taught by the world. Wearing very suggestive clothing is known to “lead to premature sexual activity and can teach the unfortunate lesson that women’s worth is determined at least in part by their status as sex objects” (Villines). Premature sexual activity is not okay it indicates that the women are just toys to be played with so that they can get whatever it is that they may want in life. The young girls will grow up thinking this is acceptable, and they will think that their bodies are more important than what is on the …show more content…
Beauty pageants are fun and they give woman a chance to experience things like never before, but what are the women going to do when they grow up and they do not have anything to fall back on because the beauty pageants got them nowhere in life? Girls want to be skinny and pageants are tearing their bodies away like it is nothing, but it is to the point where it is scary how skinny they get. It may be helping the country because there will be less obese people in the world, on the other hand what happens when those girls die of starvation, “...though the death rate of young women with anorexia has been estimated to be 12 times that of young women who do not have the disorder…” (Huey). There may be some great things about beauty pageants, but not always will it be true because somewhere along the line someone is