Are beauty contests harmful?

[Bluehacks]

Beauty contests are popular in many parts of the world. The biggest, the Miss World competition, has been running annually since 1951, and although it is less popular in the UK now than it was in 1968, when it attracted 27.5 million TV viewers, it attracts an enormous worldwide audience - around 3 billion viewers in 115 countries. There are beauty contests for various categories of age, sex and sexuality; this topic focuses on adult women’s beauty contests as overwhelmingly the most popular and high-profile version. Note that there are difficult technical issues about running this debate: it probably works best as a values debate on whether beauty contests are a good thing or not, but this kind of comparison motion is frowned upon in some policy-based debating circles. Proposing a ban on beauty contests might be met with various entirely valid opposition lines on enforceability and warped priorities (what about porn?), which would tend to undermine the point of the debate.


My opinion

Beauty contests promote an ideal of female beauty to which only a minority of women can realistically aspire, but which adds to the pressure on all women to conform to it. This can be harmful to women by encouraging dieting, eating disorders and cosmetic surgery, or simply by making them feel inadequate and ugly.

[*Fatima*]

I am aginst of beauty contests

[dsjeya]

i am 4 beauty cotest
female body is beautiful
such cotest will encourage more woman to be beaut conscious
it is a harmless entertainment

[RAHEN]

i am also 4 beauty contest.

[dsjeya]

men show their muscle power in sports and contest
y not woman their fat power(beauty)
thank u rahen

[Be happy Keep smiling]

I am not against beauty contests. Women who are forthgoing enough to participate in it might as well !

I dont think it is "harmful" to anyone ..Just another form of entertainment for the masses ..

[Muzna]

i dont think so it is good source of entertainment to display a women and use her as a source of money

[Be happy Keep smiling]

i dont think so it is good source of entertainment to display a women and use her as a source of money

But why target beauty contests ? Look at other fields like modelling, acting.. All of them thrive on the same factor..

[dsjeya]

bombay high court allowed dances in bar
thank u simi
muzna u can have your own views

[Evian]

I agree with muzna, how come men shows are not as popular? And why do men need undressed women to entertain them?