The Truth of Beauty Pageants

Don't hate me but I HATE BEAUTY PAGEANTS!!!!! Why? Well, it could be the dumb answers from the brainless beauty contestants but also these answers will tell you otherwise. And ladies if you are reading this, I have nothing against pageants but I just don't like them so NO HATE COMMENTS GOT IT? Thank you. Enjoy! --KatDon 

What's so bad about beauty pageants? Well you're about to find out why and here is proof to tell you otherwise. 

It's teaching girls the wrong thing Beauty pageants have allowed young girl to think that they have to be beautiful. They teach kids that beauty is on the outside and not the inside. When you teach kids that beauty is only on the outside it can cause major problems, not only health problems but social and physical and mental problems also. If a beautiful girl enters a pageant and doesn't win she will start to consider herself ugly or fat or too skinny. Beauty pageants create a lot of problems that affect not only the girl but the people she surrounds herself with. Of course it is harmful. Beauty contests are harmful. It teaches children the worth of a person is almost solely based on appearance. They increase dieting, eating disorders, and lowers their self esteem causing them to feel simply inaccurate and ugly. These contests objectify women. They have so much pressure put on them and they will either grow up feeling that they are ugly and will never be good enough or believing that they are some sort of royalty and acting like snobs. Just watch "Toddlers and Tiaras" on TLC when the girls are getting ready and you'll see that it hurts to put on fake lashes and fake hair etc. Plus they could end up anorexic and getting plastic surgery and going on unnecessary diets, which by the way is unhealthy. They either break you down or make you into a mean, snobby, horrible person. Beauty pageants are degrading and harmful to women and children. They turn women into objects to be used and played with. They make the women that don't make it through feel bad about their looks and make even those the do get through feel like they still have to do something to look prettier. Beauty pageants also set false standards about how beautiful women are supposed to look. So just because a woman is thin and "health?" With certain looks makes them beautiful? Women that are thick or big can't be pretty or beautiful? Some say that beauty is only skin deep, well it isn't, a person can have a beautiful soul. A beautiful man or woman can be either kind or horrible. Someone who isn't attractive can have a beautiful soul or an ugly one. In beauty pageants beauty is only skin deep, and it puts others down. Beauty pageants themselves show how women are continually being objectified through the media. Their overall attractiveness is surveyed before a panel of judges, and the women conduct themselves in a way to please the audience...While it is natural to enjoy looking at beautiful things, the overall message that beauty pageants gives to people is a negative one. But it is a part of our culture where women's sexual attractiveness is gauged by other people, and I don't see it changing anytime soon.. Most people seem to enjoy these contests today; I once did too, as a little girl.. But now that I see the underlying issues, it upsets me that such a sexist, degrading thing still exists on a national scale. Take this poll for example.. I'm sure a lot of the people who came upon it were looking for the harmful effects of beauty contests as I was because people who simply enjoy them wouldn't think twice about looking it up, yet still almost half of the people think that beauty contests aren't harmful to women. I hope that someday more people will understand the negative implications of beauty contests, and the over importance placed on a woman's beauty.


Incredibly degrading to me! Women demand respect from men. Not only do they demand it, but they deserve it. If this is true, why do they prance around in a string bikini showing off their bodies? Of course men are going to go “ga-ga” over these women. It’s very disrespectful, but hey, men are men. We can’t change men’s nature, but you know what we can change? We can change the fact that women are competing to be “the most beautiful in the world”. We don’t cut off beauty contests because it brings NBC money. I guarantee more women than not believe that beauty contests are disgusting and give men the wrong idea of what the “trophy wife” looks like. Are beauty contests harmful to female's self esteem? Yes it is harmful because they focus on winning and it can lead to serious brain trauma. Some start at a very young age a one little rumor can ruin their whole life. I mean, have you seen honey boo boo? There was a lot going on. That is why Beauty Contests are harmful to female's self esteem. It makes girls think of unrealistic body ideas. They think they have to be super skinny, and some what too skinny. You can't look like a barbie.. Its unrealistic. Studies have shown that is a unrealistic barbie and the second is one with proper human proportions. So that's why its a harmful thing to all woman/ children involved. Many women start beauty pageants at a young age. There parents become very competitive and force the children to take drastic adjustments to their bodies to make their image better. This can lead to 5 year olds and younger having fake tans, hair extensions, permanent mascara, waxed eyebrows and legs and whitened teeth. Do these young children really need to be in beauty pageants to know that they are pretty? Do we need our children to think that their looks are judged and if they don't win they are not pretty? No we don't! Cementing a biased definition of "beautiful" Beauty contests seem pointless to me. They essentially tell women to submit to someone else's definition of beautiful, rather than to prove themselves through merit. And when the contest concludes and someone wins, does that immediately make them more beautiful than the rest? More beautiful according to a panel of judges? It's just pointless. Money for beauty contests could be more useful for causes. Destroying ourselves with beauty Sure you could say that beauty pageants are good by boosting self esteem but think of all the thing that the women do to get their bodies to look like that. Its revolting to see anorexic people who force themselves not to eat when they weigh less than 90 pounds saying "i'm so fat". It's sad to see people forcing eating disorders on themselves to look better. It's just not healthy. Unnatural obsession with physical appearances How can a child ever hope of having a healthy appreciation of her body when the only time she is ever praised for her looks is after hours of preparation and dozens of beauty products. Beauty pageants judge only on what a person can see at first glance, and people are so much more than that. Sure there are talent portions, but they are often times filled with oversexualized dance routines that no young child should participate in. As a society we need to protect our children from the harsh realities of the adult world, that includes things such as blowing kisses and wiggling your hips for the judges only to earn a few extra points. Beauty pageants also ingrain into children that in order to be beautiful you need to be skinny, which for some body types is incredibly unhealthy. Even if you say that none of these things matter, think about this. How does knowledge in Beauty Pageants transfer outside of that world? With sports comes mental disciple and advance body control, with after school clubs comes the ability to work in groups and gain leadership experience. For all the money that beauty pageants cost, is it really worth it? And no, the scholarships do not come anywhere near the amount invested in pageants. The child would be much better off if the parents had just saved half of the money they spent on pageant coaches and cupcake dresses. Of all the things a parent could expose their children too, are pageants really the best thing out there?