Beauty Pageants Essay

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Beauty pageants are detrimental to young girls and boys because the cost to enter is expensive, pageants turn young girls and boys into miniature adults, and most of the children are forced into pageantry. Parents who allow their children to participate in pageants have expenses to pay for, such as: entry fees, dresses, hair and makeup services, and coaches with the “Total Cost = $2,073” (Casstevens 6). The fees that parents pay for pageants are ridiculous because they basically pay for their children to be seen by predators in very little clothing. The money that is spent should be used on much more useful necessities, such as education and medical needs for the family. Pageants force young boys and girls to become miniature adults: “To their critics, such beauty pageants are exploitative, pressuring children to adopt semi- sexualized adult mannerisms” (Day 1). The outfits that the boys and girls wear are often skimpy, which shows that their parents do not care about how they look, they just want them to win. The dance moves and performances that the children do are also provocative, and the dances are not appropriate for children. Many of the children do not want to do pageants; their parents force them to participate in pageants: “Parents tend to adopt an extremely narcissistic view so every time a child shows the slightest interest in anything they seize on it” (Day 4).The parents give them incentives so that they participate which is crazy the children should want to participate, the children should not be forced. Parents need to learn to listen to their children sometimes to see what the children want. Pageants are too expensive, they make children grow up too quickly, and they cause some children to participate in something that they do not want to; and therefore, children should not participate in beauty

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