Research Topic: Beauty Contest and the Effcts on Young Girls Today
What purpose do beauty contest serve in our society? What effect is the projected image that these ladies “beauty queens” are placing on our youth of today?
Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and color. One set image should not constitute as what is beautiful. I do not agree with the image beauty contest are portraying as what beauty is. When thinking of beauty pageants young girls perceive beauty as the perfect “model” or perfect “Barbie” type image. That image is unachievable naturally and therefore we as a society dress up, put on pounds on make-up, and use anything as a type of enhancement. Is this beauty?
According to Dictionary.com beauty is defined as the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Beauty is supposed to give pleasure to others. Beauty contest requires these women to make themselves into porcelain dolls. What is this doing for the young girls who lack self-confidence? What is this image doing for the young girls who are not comfortable in their own skin? Are we as a society saying that they are not beautiful as well?
Our society does not understand the value of beauty and place to much emphasis on what we perceive as beauty instead of taking a person’s natural beauty at face value. An example would be the show “Toddlers and Tiaras” portrays little girls, some that aren’t even old enough to enter into kindergarten, as beauty queen contestants. These babies, some which aren’t even potty trained have make-up, false nails, fake eyelashes placed on them, and are even spray tanned. Babies are normally seen as pure and naturally beautiful, so by changing this notion by placing fake aesthetics on these children are they beautiful now? So by our society standards beauty isn’t natural, according to activities such as beauty contests.
