Are beauty contests degrading womanhood?

I personally feel that beauty is one's eternal asset to cherish. It is god's gift to someone. We shouldn't expose it by participating in fashion contest wearning short dresses and impressing judges. Though such contests require some extra talent but is not matching with our present cultural society.

I think beauty contest not only degrading womanhood but also our culture. Just because of this contest now a days girls have no interest on wearing their cultural dresses. They feel wearing saree and salwar kameez is an old fashion. They are completely drove towards western dresses. Women participating in beauty contest used to wear minimum clothes which tends completely in the minds of new generation.

I think beauty contest is good for woman they can show off her self on the platform of film industry & can get lot of offer by filmy sectors & reality shows. woman can show there her hdn talent and also can show confidence level and way of talking communication skill & more & more thing can show there so think beauty contest is good for our culture and we can show our culture to foreign countries.

I my opinion beauty contests are degrading womanhood but also our society and our culture.as we all know that we are Indian and it is not our culture.India get name and fame in all over the world because of culture,religion and tradition not for beauty contests.

If anyone of you believe, that beauty contests degrade our culture, it is because the way you view and interpret these contests. These are a perfect means to provide platforms to upcoming stars for bollywood and of course TV serials. They are meant to display a talent and confidence. If you have any problem with short dresses, try not to watch a woman as just beauty or sex objects. Observe how graceful they are, how confidently they present themselves. That is the main objective of beauty contests.

Now these contests may be misused in INDIA, but considering everything its a great platform.

In justifying my point I would like to add that when we are talking about Indian culture, then yes beauty contests are degrading it because wearing short dresses and exposing various body parts aren't our culture also with respect to have a good outlook of the body womens go for size zero and keep themselves on low diet which in turn transforms them from having a genuine body into skeletons but still they feel very proud of acquiring size zero despite of unknowing the fact that for how long they will survive on earth like this. Wearing traditional dresses is our culture and we have magnificent dresses to wear.

Since they shows more vulgharity in their dresses it degrades the whole womenenhood. They are moving out of all the traditional things. They used to diet to have zero fat. They used to put lot of make ups.

According to me, I don't think conducting beauty contest is degrading womanhood. Every body have their own dream or wishes, so if they are participating by her own wishes then I don't think any body should have any problem in it. Its 20th century, today's women are not born to stay at home. They too have a fair right to show their talent to world and I think beauty contest is the best platform to show the talent.

In my point of view beauty contest does not degrade the womanhood, why because beauty is not regarding to physical appearance right? so every one has their own dreams they have to approach them, no one can restrict anybody.

Beauty contests are actually not degrading womanhood or our culture. Its just that we like to become someone in life and when we get a better platform its human nature to urge into it and discover themselves. There are people who just expose themselves in the name of beauty but that alone does not count right?People from various circumstances get to know about everyone around them and every happening around them. So I share that it is one of the ways for a woman to explore herself and in no way it degrades womanhood!