Unrealistic Expectations Of Beauty Pageants

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“High heels aren't made for small feet” (Unknown). Beauty pageants are outdated. They objectify women and young girls, treating them as sexual objects. They create in these girls an inappropriate body perception about themselves, which can lead to eating disorders and harmful dieting rituals. Also, starting pageants at such young ages can cause physical and mental problems for the girls and women, as they grow up. They can create feelings of overconfidence or even lack of confidence, which can lead to depression and even suicide. These psychological disorders can last a lifetime. These pageants are also very expensive to enter into, and to equip and prepare for, taking limited resources from potentially more productive uses that could benefit …show more content…

The judges at pageants expect the contestants to be skinny, beautiful with a lot of make-up, and to be wearing something “sexy.” This causes the girls to grow up and think they have to be super skinny, wear make up, and wear “sexy” looking clothes in order to look pretty. If the contestants are not thin, physically beautiful, or even perfect, then the judges will pick someone who is, in their eyes, beautiful. Beauty pageants, like Miss India and Miss World, definitely promote that type of unrealistic expectation of beauty. Promoting an unrealistic expectation of beauty can cause anxiety among many (“Body Image Issues). This is wrong because people are able to look naturally beautiful, without being skinny and wearing all that make up. Placing young girls into beauty pageants sets an unrealistic body image in their heads.
Young girls in pageants are judged by their physical beauty and not by any other qualities. The judges do not judge by the characteristics that the contestants have on the inside, they only really judge them on what they look like physically. They judge by how skinny they are and if they fit the criteria on what they consider “beautiful.” People do not necessarily have to be beautiful on the outside because they can be the most beautiful person on the

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