What do you think about beauty pageants?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

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I'm watching Drop Dead Gorgeous about Miss Teen America beauty pageant. Have you seen Toddlers and Tiaras? Mom's get super competitive pushing daughters over the edge in an attempt to gain fame via proxy.

About winning should adults push young people to win? Why?

Getting back to the movie above; somebody is murdering the beauty pageant contestants. Could the perpetuator be another contestant or perhaps a distraught parent. Curiously, beauty pageants are on the up and up and are never rigged.
 

Besides being overly pretentious?
What a way to judge and compare others then reward contestants based on their looks.
It’s not only shallow, it could be considered a form of child abuse?
Who in their right mind dresses their toddlers up to look like a hookers or call girls, parading them around to be exposed to those who wish to abuse them?
To classify ‘toddlers and tiaras’ in the same category as ‘beauty pageants’ is grossly ignorant.
 
I've never liked any type of beauty pageants.
Once I was discussing a Miss America Pageant with a co-worker & he wanted to know why I didn't like them.
I said, "A bunch of men leering at a bunch of women in bathing suits & voting for the one they'd most want to sleep with."
He said I was "Negative," ROFLOL!!!
 
Beauty pageants I rather think are artifacts of an earlier time when a woman’s worth was largely ascribed to her physical appearance. As physical beauty it’s well said is only skin deep, traditional beauty pageants are by nature reductionistic at best, and sexist at worst. While efforts have been made to broaden such pageants by including talent competitions and having contestants answer questions, physical beauty remains in the eye of the beholder and is but one corruptible attribute of a person’s totality. The imposition of such pageants on children is a violation of their childhood, and could be quite damaging...
 
win231 said:
I've never liked any type of beauty pageants.
Once I was discussing a Miss America Pageant with a co-worker & he wanted to know why I didn't like them.
I said, "A bunch of men leering at a bunch of women in bathing suits & voting for the one they'd most want to sleep with."
He said I was "Negative," ROFLOL!!!
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Actually he is correct. Beauty pageants have FAR more female than male fans. Always has been and always will be that way.

As for me, nope - don't watch or care for them at all.
 
Keesha said:
To classify ‘toddlers and tiaras’ in the same category as ‘beauty pageants’ is grossly ignorant.
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Call me ignorant, but what is the difference between parents priming daughters to compete in beauty pageants and that of same parents priming younger daughters to compete in same beauty pageants at a younger age?
 
I do not like beauty pageants. Parading women like they were cows for sale is totally outdated. Beauty can be short lived. To my way of thinking give me a woman with brains, someone who enjoys life and enjoys doing things and I'm a happy camper. I never fell for those American songs about "girls with the golden hair" nor the "dumb blond" movies. Give me a dark haired gal with brains and zest for life anytime.
 
peramangkelder said:
Beauty Pageant = Meat Market
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I think they're okay for some but disastrous for little kids. Is there something wrong with teaching people how to win in life? All you folks who shop at Amazon tell me about it. Does the world need more billionaire or even trillionaires dictating how the rest of us should live and who should own what and who shouldn't?
 
personally, i feel child beauty pageants border on pornography... you just KNOW they must attract a certain clientele.

i remember going to AC with dad and his sister (and 5 other sibs/cousins) to watch the parade at the beginning of Miss America week. i remember watching the show with my grandmother. one year (late 60s?) a girl from my brother's HS class was rep from DE... paula something, i think. as the final 5 (maybe 10) were standing with frozen smiles... a FLY landed on her FACE! now there's something truly unnatural when someone doesn't automatically swipe something away from their face.
 
fmdog44 said:
A beautiful woman is a happy woman.
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I agree generally, and there is little doubt women with good looks etc., hold great power, but we should acknowledge all sorts of attributes can go to ones head, and if vanity becomes too pronounced you'd expect this leads to some disappointment or worse, as looks start to fade a bit.
 


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