Should Contestants Be Disqualified From Beauty Pageants If They Have Had Cosmetic Surgery?
First of all, let me say that I’m completely against the idea of beauty pageants, because they perpetuate the erroneous societal notion that the value of a girl or a woman is based solely on her looks. That being said, though, I remember seeing a few years ago an ad for a cosmetic surgeon’s practice in Little Rock that had a picture of two or three Miss Arkansas contestants posing with the doctors. Call me crazy, but I can’t help but think that if a person’s beauty isn’t natural, it doesn’t count.
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May 13th, 2009 in
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We all do something to enhance our beauty. One extreme is simply washing our face and cutting and brushing our hair. The other is body altering surgery to change our looks.
The question is where do we draw the line for real beauty.
I think things that enhance the beauty you have are OK for pageants. So make up is just fine. Removing hair and even coloring you hair are very accepted ways to enhance your beauty so I think those are fine also.
Surgery is where I would draw the line. If you have surgery for a bigger bust or a smaller nose, I think that should disqualify you.
I think you’re very wise and I agree with you completely. I also think there are more people like us in thinking about these “meat market pageants” and they are only put on to give men something to look at. I’ll add that I think the women who participate are often lacking some moral fortitude as well as to me they are porn wanna be as they know what the men are looking at and thinking
Yes! Based on principal. We shouldn’t be encouraging women to practice violence on their own bodies just for fame and financial gain. It’s also unfair for women in or outside of a pageant to be held to an artificial beauty standard.
* I’ll admit I am biased. I don’t like the idea of pageants anyway. I think they are just a way to set females against each other.
i agree with you
even though at the end of some pageants, theres like questions or talent competitions, the winner is most likely going to be the prettiest one
so yeah, and if its not natural, then why should they win?
1 out of 5 beaty pageants are rigged anyway, so what it comes down to is always the almighty dollar.
Whoever can pay to look the best wins, etc. It is sick.
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