Stereotypes In Pageants
As she walked out into the glaring lights of the auditorium for the bikini round, Arielle Yuspeh could feel her sash slipping from her shoulder. By the time she reached center stage, it had come off completely and was tangled somewhere around her waist. With all eyes on her, she froze for a second or so, gave the judges a horrified grimace, then shrugged. Arielle knew she had lost, and felt oddly relieved.
Miss Louisiana USA was something of a homecoming for Arielle: her first pageant had been Miss Louisiana Teen at the age of 13. She remembers being turned off by the experience, and did not compete again for almost ten years, during which time she had moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles. When she went back to pageants at 23, she says, it …show more content…
If young girls have a choice they are able to decide if they would like to be a pageant girl stuck with routines, makeup caked to their faces, and getting up at the early hours to compete all day at a pageant. Young girls that compete in pageants would have the choice if they wanted to lead a normal life and play sports and go to public school if they wanted to. I think that there should be no infant or toddler pageants unless they are natural pageants so that the young girls don't have to be put through all of the beauty routines that adults preform every day. Beauty pageants have allowed young girl to think that they have to be beautiful. Pageants teach kids that beauty is on the outside and not the inside. A girl should not be judged on her looks. 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. Many beauty pageant girls end up being anorexic because they think they need to like a Barbie doll during the pageant. Many girls perceive that they are not skinny enough because they have been told that they need to eat right and stay at a certain weight if they want to win the pageants. Many girls are put under so much pressure that they face many issues of depression if they don’t win. These reasons are why we need to have an age limit on pageants and not let girls compete in glitz pageants when they are younger. The glitz pageants should only be offered to girls who have had a makeup routine and are old enough to get fake nails, spray tanned, and their legs
Miss Louisiana USA was something of a homecoming for Arielle: her first pageant had been Miss Louisiana Teen at the age of 13. She remembers being turned off by the experience, and did not compete again for almost ten years, during which time she had moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles. When she went back to pageants at 23, she says, it …show more content…
If young girls have a choice they are able to decide if they would like to be a pageant girl stuck with routines, makeup caked to their faces, and getting up at the early hours to compete all day at a pageant. Young girls that compete in pageants would have the choice if they wanted to lead a normal life and play sports and go to public school if they wanted to. I think that there should be no infant or toddler pageants unless they are natural pageants so that the young girls don't have to be put through all of the beauty routines that adults preform every day. Beauty pageants have allowed young girl to think that they have to be beautiful. Pageants teach kids that beauty is on the outside and not the inside. A girl should not be judged on her looks. 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. Many beauty pageant girls end up being anorexic because they think they need to like a Barbie doll during the pageant. Many girls perceive that they are not skinny enough because they have been told that they need to eat right and stay at a certain weight if they want to win the pageants. Many girls are put under so much pressure that they face many issues of depression if they don’t win. These reasons are why we need to have an age limit on pageants and not let girls compete in glitz pageants when they are younger. The glitz pageants should only be offered to girls who have had a makeup routine and are old enough to get fake nails, spray tanned, and their legs