Saying Good bye to Beauty Pageants

Beauty pageants have been the most important television event for many Americans, but now researchers learned that those beauty competitions are bringing many problems to the whole society, so pageants should disappear for the nation’s benefit. Beauty pageants affect girls’ self-esteem making them feel down graded and ugly. Young women and girls often feel very uncomfortable with their bodies because women in beauty pageants look thin, sexy and voluptuous, and that is the body …

…their people- a useful skill in many arenas in life, but perhaps not the one that you would want to make a central future of your child’s personality from the age of 2” (Adler and Knee-Osborne). In order to make society more healthy, people should learn to love themselves as they are, not because of the body but because what is inside (feelings, love). Beauty doesn’t means happiness, and ugliness is not always unhappiness. (675)