Beauty Pageants: Creating a Woman of Success or Failure
Beauty Pageants: Creating a woman of success or failure
Typically when beauty pageants come to mind we think of beautiful women in beautiful gowns who win scholarship money for school, participate in community service, achieve the goals that are related to their platform and role models that we hope the young women of our society aspire to be. In reality, behind the scenes there is much more than what appears to the eye. Many can argue that they play a major part in women’s self esteem issues and the exploitation of them. Despite how obnoxious they are, the world is made up of people who truly enjoy this form of entertainment. However, they could also play a major part in creating a goal oriented woman, and a person who doesn’t buckle under pressure.
For years people have argued whether beauty pageants played a major part in the success or downfall in societies and what the effect they have on women who participate in them. Through the study of beauty pageants, they prove how effective beauty pageants are and describe how the unfortunate ones who lose cope with the disappointment. Although financially beauty pageants may be worthwhile, beauty pageants should be done away with or have a change of criteria because they are superficial, cause women to have low self-esteem, and are more beneficial for the countries the women represent rather than the contestants.
Big lights, big hair, extreme make-up, tiaras and sashes have not always been the look of beauty pageants. Pageants made their initial appearance in the 1920’s in United States. After the major success and popularity, other countries began to participate. After 90 years, beauty pageants have become the largest scholarship assistance program for women in America. .
“Beauty pageants” can be dated back further than you think. Arguably scholars can date them back to the Greek mythological times, where Eris began the Trojan War with a prize, it was called “For the Fairest.” (Cohe, Wilk, and Stoeltje 3) However
Typically when beauty pageants come to mind we think of beautiful women in beautiful gowns who win scholarship money for school, participate in community service, achieve the goals that are related to their platform and role models that we hope the young women of our society aspire to be. In reality, behind the scenes there is much more than what appears to the eye. Many can argue that they play a major part in women’s self esteem issues and the exploitation of them. Despite how obnoxious they are, the world is made up of people who truly enjoy this form of entertainment. However, they could also play a major part in creating a goal oriented woman, and a person who doesn’t buckle under pressure.
For years people have argued whether beauty pageants played a major part in the success or downfall in societies and what the effect they have on women who participate in them. Through the study of beauty pageants, they prove how effective beauty pageants are and describe how the unfortunate ones who lose cope with the disappointment. Although financially beauty pageants may be worthwhile, beauty pageants should be done away with or have a change of criteria because they are superficial, cause women to have low self-esteem, and are more beneficial for the countries the women represent rather than the contestants.
Big lights, big hair, extreme make-up, tiaras and sashes have not always been the look of beauty pageants. Pageants made their initial appearance in the 1920’s in United States. After the major success and popularity, other countries began to participate. After 90 years, beauty pageants have become the largest scholarship assistance program for women in America. .
“Beauty pageants” can be dated back further than you think. Arguably scholars can date them back to the Greek mythological times, where Eris began the Trojan War with a prize, it was called “For the Fairest.” (Cohe, Wilk, and Stoeltje 3) However
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