Persuasive Essay About Beauty Pageants

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Beauty Pageants; have you heard of that phrase? I bet you did! According to Wikipedia A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants, although some contests have evolved to also incorporate personality traits, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges ' questions as judged criteria. But little did we know that beauty pageants could also ruin a woman or a girl’s life. Today on the 20th of September, I would like to elaborate further what harmful objectives a beauty pageant could possess towards a Filipina lady and banning it in the Philippines is a must. Beauty pageants has been in the world for quite a long time now, and by the looks of it, we are merely focusing more on the outer traits of a woman such as her, beauty and body. How she poses in front and how well her position is when she’s on idle. But what we didn’t saw was the negative attributes that could harm a woman’s dignity and life. As I scanned the internet for answers, I later realize that there are several back stories about a woman’s journey in becoming a beauty queen, and majority of the stories weren’t as good as …show more content…

Entering a Beauty Pageant Is Becoming Unreasonably Expensive Jezebel.com says. It might not point-out to only the financial obligations of a contestant, but taxing her own health to attain the standard beauty queen figure is also one of the major problems when it comes to beauty pageants. Observe Beyonce’s song “Pretty Hurts.” Shows how women would push themselves to extreme measures just to keep up with their figures and weight. Some would even go through eating juiced cotton balls to play with their stomachs, having the reaction that they are full. On one hand, it has also been a financial burden for the contestants, parents and their sponsors. From the makeup, to the handler and down to their gowns expect that it wouldn’t cost you that

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