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Are beauty contests harmful?

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$tyli$h Executive:
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 and sex.

This topic focuses on adult women’s beauty contests as these the most popular and high-profile version.

I don't think they're harmful.

astarmathsandphysics:
Winners rarely go on to lead good lives.

$tyli$h Executive:
Its entirely the participants choice that she will participate in the competition. She is not being forced in any way.

Beauty competition benefits the country. It enables fashion designing firms to grow faster. It initiates a desire in young girls to look prettier and more beautiful. This in turn, benefits the country as cosmetics and beauty products sell much more and experience a cyclic demand. If there were no beauty competition, beauty and cosmetic product wouldn't have had such high demand by girls. This high demand creates employment and highers the GDP.

Karan:
The main problem with beauty contests is that they really promote low self esteem, especially among younger people - girls in particular... many teenagers try to emulate these models, and this is harmful in many cases. I keep reading about young models and young girls collapsing and suffering major health problems like anorexia due to excessive dieting and other such things that they do to try and look more like the fashion models they see on television and in magazines, which is really quite an unrealistic goal in most cases. Modern society has transformed the conception of beauty in such a way that many people feel that they aren't good enough... Beauty Shows themselves may be harmless, but the wide-scale misconception that you have to look like a fashion model to be considered very attractive is quite damaging. The alarming level of superficiality that we see all around us, especially among the younger people nowadays is irritating to say the least...

And like astarmathsandphysics said... models usually don't do well for long. They normally have a "shelf-life" of about 5-10 years before they become "too old". And that's exactly how the fashion industry looks at it.

nid404:
It's a platform to showcase what u got....it's good.
Lot of winners make a good name for themselves...Aishwarya Rai's wax figure is in Madam Tussauds ::)

I agree with what Karan n sir had to say too in a way.....some of them cannot handle the fame well...well it doesn't apply to all of them....
It's  mundanely thought that ppl who enter the glamorous life cannot last long...but there are many examples which contradict this idea

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