Every year countless women compete in a barbaric and outdated tradition where they prance around in two piece bathing suits costing more than an average person gets in their pay check all while potentially harming the self-image of anyone who watches them including themselves. Ever since the introduction of mainstream beauty pageants in the late 50’s they seem to lack variety among their contestants. This is due to the judge’s grading standards, walking around with rulers ranking women based outrageous features such as the construction of their head, torso, and limbs. This act degraded women and while we don’t have outright sexist standards in modern beauty pageants such as the one back then, we still have the ugly stain of ranking women and
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Miss America will claim that they make available 45 million dollars in women’s scholarship annually. Digging into the miss America website they are registered as a non-profit, which means that they are required to file public tax forms and in 2012 is was recorded that they donated a little less than 500,000 dollars in cash scholarships, which leaves us with 44 and a half million dollars short of what they originally claimed they gave. When Miss America claims that they are the world’s largest PROVIDER for women’s scholarships they just mean that they are adding up all of the money they could give to one contestant whether or not they can claim it. For example Miss America stated that they provided nearly 2 and a half million dollars to one university called Troy university in Alabama but according to Troy university miss America got the that 2 million by multiplying the value of one scholarship by 48, the number of women who could theoretically claim that scholarship money Even though the actual number of women who accepted was 0. This just shows the level that beauty pageants are willing to go stretch the truth. Lastly pageants only reinforce the sexist agendas and clichés that people have for women. Many beauty pageants have specific standards for women when it comes to who can enter. For example Miss America requires women to not be married, not be pregnant or have ever been pregnant, along with being no older than 24 years old. This only enforcers the ideal that women can only be desirable when they are young and innocent, when a women is married or has been pregnant it ruins their desire for men as something that innocent and
Miss America will claim that they make available 45 million dollars in women’s scholarship annually. Digging into the miss America website they are registered as a non-profit, which means that they are required to file public tax forms and in 2012 is was recorded that they donated a little less than 500,000 dollars in cash scholarships, which leaves us with 44 and a half million dollars short of what they originally claimed they gave. When Miss America claims that they are the world’s largest PROVIDER for women’s scholarships they just mean that they are adding up all of the money they could give to one contestant whether or not they can claim it. For example Miss America stated that they provided nearly 2 and a half million dollars to one university called Troy university in Alabama but according to Troy university miss America got the that 2 million by multiplying the value of one scholarship by 48, the number of women who could theoretically claim that scholarship money Even though the actual number of women who accepted was 0. This just shows the level that beauty pageants are willing to go stretch the truth. Lastly pageants only reinforce the sexist agendas and clichés that people have for women. Many beauty pageants have specific standards for women when it comes to who can enter. For example Miss America requires women to not be married, not be pregnant or have ever been pregnant, along with being no older than 24 years old. This only enforcers the ideal that women can only be desirable when they are young and innocent, when a women is married or has been pregnant it ruins their desire for men as something that innocent and