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BEAUTY CONTEST Several reasons why beauty contests should be banned The aim of a beauty contest should be to select ambassadors that inspire a positive lifestyle, contribute to community values, including promoting women's awareness and rights that they deserve. However, Nowadays, there are too many beauty pageants, and they are becoming more and more commercialized. In my opinion, its drawbacks are much more than its benefits. 1. Beauty is very relative and personal. Even the definition of beauty seems to be very limited and you cannot judge beauty on such limited factors. I believe that every woman has her own beauty and you can never compare the beauty of one woman to the other. You also cannot set universal criteria for it — it differs from country to country, culture to culture, and region to region. I know being presentable is important but such pageants discourage people who might be born with disabilities or might look different. So, I believe that there should be contests where the best thinkers, artists, entrepreneurs are brought together, so it is more comprehensive and where they not only focus on the differences but also embrace them. As for health and fitness — we can be curvy and still be healthy and we could be stick-thin but not healthy. If you have healthy habits, you stay healthy. There is no real connection between our appearance and our health, especially since hormones play such a big role 2. It distracts women from bigger priorities. because it stresses on the fact that the person who is distinguished and unique is the one who has good physical features.

 Contestants spend a lot of money for a chance at the crown.

Women have to pay for dress, makeup and hair and all the money spent on these things just go away when they don’t make it anywhere near the Top 20. What good came out of all that money spent? It’s crazy to be spending that much money when some contestants just get about five seconds of airtime. They promote cosmetic surgeries. Women these days, are ready to spend thousands of dollars on getting hair extensions, fake teeth, botox injections, body implants, spray tans, branded outfits and makeup products. This could be extremely expensive to afford and such expenses are never-ending.

 These competitions spread a wrong message to the youth.

Such competitions and beauty pageant have a very wrong influence on society as young people all quickly follow the media trends. All this is basically sending the wrong message to our younger generation girls where they are made to understand that being perfect and pretty is extremely necessary. This affects their self-esteem and may even cause depression.

With the influence of beauty pageants, young girls may focus more on their outward appearance instead of building life skills and career. This change of direction can affect their whole life. Young people become extremely conscious about outer beauty, when in fact there should be platforms that celebrate inner beauty. In today’s world, there is so much hype about outer beauty, whereas there are other contests like quiz competitions and talent shows that allow contestants to compete on skill and talent. But no media coverage or hype is created around them, which is much more important because such contests can help create a better world. It also affects children quite negatively when it comes to children’s beauty pageants. They are just children and have to be treated so. They should live their lives in such a way that parents naturally encourage skills that are good and positive.

To sum up, beauty pageants distracts women from focusing on improving their education, culture, skills, career and competencies. However, instead of banning pageants immediately, they should be limited and our focus should be on other contests that celebrate real talent. Of course the pageant contestants have their own fans and in order to respect them, there should be no ban on pageants. However, overtime as the focus shifts to other contests, they can be done away with altogether....