He thinks it should be banned...lol. That won't happen.
Pageants have been around for decades and will be around
for many years to come. I absolutely do not agree with
anything he said here but read for yourselves and share
your thoughts...
Every year, thousands of girls compete in various
beauty pageants across Nigeria. While the organisers
may believe that they are helping our girls to feel
"beautiful," they are also in many other ways causing
significant damage to the self-esteem and body
perception of other girls. The girl who won may feel as
beautiful as the prettiest woman ever created, but what
about the girls who didn't win? How do they feel? I
spoke with some past contestants of one of the
pageants (the girls that didn't win) and asked them
why they think they didn't win, and this is what some
of them said, "Because I wasn't pretty enough,"
"Because the organisers didn't like me," "Because it is
a racket and who knows what she has offered," etc.
Things like this inspire jealousy, low self-esteem, and
other self destructive behaviours such as self isolation,
social anxiety, eating disorder, drug abuse, personality
disorder, bitterness and social phobia among our girls.
Beauty pageants in Nigeria should be sanctioned. Where
do we draw the line between "beauty pageant" and
"prostitution?" These pageant organisers and agencies are
doing nothing but exploiting our girls in order to make
money. The society is becoming so twisted and our sense
of right and wrong is becoming so skewed. You gather
politicians and paedophiles to watch girls in G-strings and
bikinis wriggling their waists all in the name of making a
show for TV. Are the contestants always meant to lie about
their beliefs and relationship status in order to get a good
score? Have we totally lost sight of what is morally right
and wrong?
Beauty contests seem pointless to me. To tell a woman to
submit to someone else's definition of beauty is crazy. So
when the contest is over and someone wins, does that
immediately make them more beautiful than the rest? Are
they more beautiful according to a panel of judges? I think
it is a sick idea and the money spent organising these
beauty contests can be more useful for other causes.
Beauty pageant has been nothing but degrading and
harmful to our women and children. It turns our women
into objects to be used and played with. It makes the
women that don't make it through feel bad about their
looks and even those that do get through feel like they still
have to do something more to look prettier. These beauty
pageants also set false standards about how beautiful
women are supposed to look. So, just because a woman is
thin with certain looks, it makes them more beautiful? And
women that are thick or big can't be pretty or beautiful? All
they have succeeded in saying is that beauty is only skin
deep. Well my friend, it isn't.
Isn't it bad enough seeing young Nigerian girls forcing
eating disorders on themselves just to be perceived as
prettier? 'I am so fat and it is just not healthy' has become
the chorus of every girl on the street. Parents have become
very competitive trying to make their daughters more
beautiful than their neighbours' by forcing their children to
make unnecessary adjustments to their bodies to look
better than their peers. Now we see six-year-olds having
hair extensions, permanent mascara and waxed eyebrows.
Do these children really need to be exposed to such things
to know that they are beautiful? Do we need our children
to think that their looks are judged and if they don't stand
out among their peers, they are not beautiful?
Can a woman ever have a sincere appreciation of her body
when the only time she is ever praised for her looks is after
hours of preparation with dozens of beauty products?
Beauty pageants can only judge what we can see at first
glance, and women are so much more than that. The
society needs to protect the children from the sick idea of
assembling girls in camps and tasking them with over-
sexualised dance routines. These beauty pageants can only
ingrain into our women that in order to be beautiful, they
need to be skinny, which for some body types is incredibly
unhealthy. Sincerely, what is the moral behind these
beauty pageant shows? How have they helped the society
in general? With sports, we can talk about mental
discipline, fitness and advance body control. For all the
money that beauty pageants cost to organise, is it really
worth it? Of all the things you could expose our girls to, are
pageants really the best thing out there?
When you teach people that beauty is only on the outside,
it can cause major problems, not only health problems but
social, physical and mental problems also. If a beautiful girl
enters a pageant and doesn't win, she may begin to
consider herself ugly or fat or too skinny. Beauty pageants
create a lot of problems that can affect not only the girl but
the people she surrounds herself with.
Women have always demanded respect from men. Not
only should they demand it, I think they deserve it. But
why make them scamper around in G-strings and bikinis
showing off their bodies, knowing that men are going to go
"gaga" and lick their lips. I don't want to sound
disrespectful, but can you blame the men? Men will always
be men. We can't change our nature, but you know what
we can change. We can change the fact that our women
are naked and competing to be "the most beautiful in the
world." We shouldn't endorse beauty contest because it
brings money to some people. I believe that there are still a
handful of women out there that share the sentiment that
beauty contests are wrong and give men the wrong idea of
what a "true wife" looks like.
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