Beauty Pageants: A Blessing or a Curse?

I would like to persuade you and convince you why beauty pageants should be banned.

Firstly , I would like to ask you, why should be award people for beauty when beauty can be fabricated? Why do we award people for beauty, when beauty fades away?

So again, why should we have pageants that judges people on their beauty , when we know that beauty is fake, with some blush and mascara anyone could look as good as celebrities. So we should focus on the inside of a person, as that is what differentiates them from one another.

A student in London school of economics, Ellyn James, says that beauty pageants are exactly the same as a cattle market.

This is an interesting comparison, however after much thought, I have come to realize, that she does have a point.

In a cattle market, the weigh the livestock, measure and observe them, and the buyer chooses what he prefers. And in beauty pageants, they weight the contests measure their waists and chests, they make them stand in front of an audience to be observes and they choose their favorites. So why these women should put themselves up to being exposed to the same treatment as animals?

To begin with, why it should be banned?

We all have to realize that every single woman out there has a uniqness about her that allows her to be beautiful, no matter if she is thin of fat, black or white. Beauty pageants are also discriminating. As it gives a certain weight category that women must be in, in order for them to enter the contest. So what are they saying? Fat women can’t be beautiful? This is discrimination!!

People can’t help the way they look; they aren’t born deciding what color eyes or hair they want to have. So why are we awarding people because they were lucky enough to have more appealing features?

It also allows people to be shallower, and judge others on their appearance. This could also be seen to send wrong messages to the young mind, as they start to believe that being beautiful is everything.

Many people don’t realize that beauty pageants have lead to anorexia!!

And now I will move onto the effects on non contestants. Even though they don’t participate in the pageants, it has an impact on them too. As it makes them feel self-conscious and start to criticize themselves, because they will be comparing themselves to the contestants, they will try to be as skinny, or as pretty as them. They will try to imitate their styles or attitudes as they view those women as role models.