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Are beauty contests harmful?
© 2015 albert-learning.com
ARE BEAUTY CONTESTS HARMFUL?
Are beauty contests harmful?
© 2015 albert-learning.com
VOCABULARY
Pageant Competition
Showcase Exhibition
Minority Related to money
Teen Teenager
Flippers False teeth to hide baby teeth
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MEANING
A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests also incorporate personality, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria.
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Good Bad
Helps build confidence Objectifies young women
Improves public speaking Causes issues with body image
Promotes social good/charity The bathing suit competition (need we say more?)
Scholarships Spotlights only one kind of beauty
Showcases your talents
THE GOOD AND BAD OF BEAUTY CONTESTS
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Critics say,
It is mostly based on the physical beauty of all contestants
Its a parade of female bodies
Beauty contests promote an ideal of female beauty to which only a minority of women can realistically aspire
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Judging women, but not men, primarily on their looks contributes to the subjugation of women because other qualities such as intelligence, are not seen as part of ideal feminity and there fore, not as things to which women should aspire.
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HOW DO CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS AFFECT A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT?
EXTERNAL VS. INTERNAL VALUES
Beauty pageants stress looks, glamour and, often, provocative attire
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POSSIBLE EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
it's not uncommon for teens who used to be in pageants to develop eating disorders and have body image problems.
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FINANCIAL STRAIN
Beauty pageants are expensive, and some parents use money that could be spent on education
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SEXUALIZES THEM
Young girls who compete in pageants often look sexy by wearing makeup, hair extensions, “flippers” , revealing outfits and by learning provocative poses and moves
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SO WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS
ARE BEAUTY CONTESTS HARMFUL?