Beauty Contest

beauty contest destroy girl's self-esteem and contribute to the increasing rate of eating disorders and suicide among young women. Beauty contest play a uniquely powerful role in defining what is attractive in our society by explicitly ranking the physical attractiveness of women from all around the country in a supposed objective manner. This standard of beauty is how many women define their attractiveness and worth as an individual.

If they meet society's standard for beauty then they are automatically beautiful and worth more. If they fail to live up to that standard then they are ugly and worthless. The problem is that 99% of women cannot physically live up to the standard of beauty that pageants perpetuate. So when everyone else who is not beautiful enough to participate in the pageants realize they cannot ever meet that standard of beauty they have one of two options: either become terribly depressed that you cannot ever meet society's standard for self-worth or become self-destructive. When just about every young girl in this nation is held to a standard of beauty that they cannot possibly hope to match, the inevitable outcome is that those girls become self-destructive and either become bulimic or anorexic or even attempt to kill themselves.

The other debater argues that "But even getting judged by your beauty is not so bad. Anyone can be beautiful if they make some effort. Some will always be more beautiful than others, and if some people hate themselves because they are not the most beautiful, then they have a personality disorder which should be treated by a psychologist. " The problem with this argument is that not "everyone" can be beautiful because beauty standards perpetuate a very specific, very high standard of beauty. Very few people can meet this standard and so not everyone is beautiful because of beauty pageants. He is also right that people who hate themselves because they are not the most beautiful person out there have a psychological...