Beauty Competition

 Against Beauty Competition

Beauty competitions have become a common affair in the present world. Now such competitions are held in almost every country. It is a matter o controversy whether beauty competitions are putting positive or negative effects on the dignity of women as human beings. People both for and against such competitions show cogent reasons and strong feelings.

Those who advocate beauty pageants say that such competitions are a symbol of women freedom. Women’s beauty is adorable and praised by everybody. Such programmes allow women to show their beauty and please others. Moreover, in the beauty pageants only the physical beauty of women is not evaluated. Their mental strength, clarity of views and intelligence are also measured. They are like the competitions of excellence for women. Here a woman can exhibit her physical and intellectual capabilities fully.

Those who oppose beauty pageants also show their reasons strongly. They show argument that the main focus of these beauty pageants is the physical beauty and sex appeal of women. At first, the competitors have to be beautiful and attractive. Mental strength and capabilities are not the most important factors in such competitors. They also argue that such competitions provide for the food of men’s libido. They serve erotic pleasure to sexually pervert people. Women are presented as goods and their beauty as things for sale. It is detrimental to the dignity of women. According to them, the dignity of a woman is in her role to sustain a family as a wife, a sister, and a mother. In the family, she is truly loved, respected, and aborted. Here she is not a product for purchase and to throw away after use. Here her dignity and value are not confined to her physical beauty and attraction. Her beauty, here, plays a role in making a conjugal relationship with her husband and in building a family under mutual trust, trust, respect and dependence. She plays dignified roles as a wife, a mother, and a sister.

Hence, I believe that beauty pageants actually do not increase women’s dignity and positions in the society. Such competitions , where the bodies of women are exposed as sex items, should be discouraged because they spreads unhealthy sexuality in the society and spread of lust and perversion cannot be good for and society.