Are beauty contests harmful? © 2015 albert-learning.com ARE BEAUTY CONTESTS HARMFUL?

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Are beauty contests harmful?

© 2015 albert-learning.com

ARE BEAUTY CONTESTS HARMFUL?

Are beauty contests harmful?

© 2015 albert-learning.com

VOCABULARY

Pageant Competition

Showcase Exhibition

Minority Related to money

Teen Teenager

Flippers False teeth to hide baby teeth

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MEANING

A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests also incorporate personality, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria.

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Good Bad

Helps build confidence Objectifies young women

Improves public speaking  Causes issues with body image

Promotes social good/charity The bathing suit competition (need we say more?)

Scholarships Spotlights only one kind of beauty 

Showcases your talents

THE GOOD AND BAD OF BEAUTY CONTESTS

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Critics say,

It is mostly based on the physical beauty of all contestants

Its a parade of female bodies

Beauty contests promote an ideal of female beauty to which only a minority of women can realistically aspire

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HOW DO CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS AFFECT A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT?

EXTERNAL VS. INTERNAL VALUES

Beauty pageants stress looks, glamour and, often, provocative attire

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FINANCIAL STRAIN

Beauty pageants are expensive, and some parents use money that could be spent on education

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SEXUALIZES THEM

Young girls who compete in pageants often look sexy by wearing makeup, hair extensions, “flippers” , revealing outfits and by learning provocative poses and moves