Are beauty contests degrading womanhood?

Beauty contests should be open for every woman living on this planet. The criteria for participation in such contests must include each woman of this earth. There should be no discrimination on the basis of body height, body color, age, ethnicity, region, language, culture, education, economy, etc. Each woman's contributions in any fields must be evaluated and judged. A few numbers of person cannot judge all contributions made by women. Therefore, these must be judged by the majority of concerned people. Till the date, almost all the beauty contests show a discriminatory stereotyped pattern ---- Winner remains Tall, Thin and English speaking. This depicts the dark side of beauty contests.

On this planet, every woman should be respected. Each woman should be crowned instead of only one. Then, such beauty contests can be able to empower women and respect womanhood.

In this world of globalisation, everything has to be paced up with everything going around.

I personally think that beauty contests are not degrading womanhood.

As, its not just about the physical beauty.

Yes, I do agree that a lot more is about how you look, but also there are rounds of what talent you have and how do you interact with the people around you.

Basically, its all about what you are!

To be very honest, I feel that its a platform where a woman actually feels the beauty of being a woman.

A lot of hope, ambition and everything that boosts up the spirits of women are involved in it. And there is nothing bad in it for me. Because its somehow taking the women up high in this world.

And for the point of SHORT dresses, its not that girls strip out in the beauty contests ! It all depends upon how you carry what you wear.

Nothing else really matters.

Beauty contest is not degrading womanhood, but there must be some rules like women should wear saree in place of short dresses because if someone is beautiful then she can look beautiful in both saree and short dress and saree is our traditional dress also. Other criterias of judging women should remain as it is in beauty contests.

It can be the perfect intermediate solution of people who consider beauty contests as degrading because it is the only reason why they dislike it. Any mother does not like that her daughter may wear short dress at adult age.

By doing so we can explode our culture as well and may teach our tradition to other countries not learn the western culture from others. We should learn technology skills from them not the manner of shorting dress because after all we are indians and we take our culture first then anything else.

Hi everyone.

I am Sakshi Pokharna.

I completely agree with this topic and the fact I am saying this is because firstly what beauty is being projected by the media and mostly the people around us. Is fair looking, tall, good figure etc. So even if a woman is happy with having a particular type of her body which is not found good conventionally but over the time these beauty standards make her feel that way you have something less. And then comes the beauty pageants I completely agree that it's more than a beauty you also have to be confident and smart. But moreover, there is a lot of showcasing of being slim, beautiful. So, it really does affect woman self-esteem and moreover to question her womanhood.

I think it's not about not conducting beauty contest but there should be more emphasis on being intellectual and other things than just beauty.

Not at all beauty contest is specially performed foe physical beauty. They have every right to look beautiful and what for is that beauty blessed by god you must show their physical beauty. But this I was talking about in other context and that beauty when a lady under normal conditions looks automatically beautiful and lovable that is a universal fact and truth behind this phenomen—author or jane Austin in her novel Mr. Darcy fell in love with an ordinary look but why she likes is described as the innocence on Elizabeth Benne and how beautifully she hatolded about the ultimate character. You are mistaken when I talk about the expressions describing the overall individuality. So far, beauty contest is all about your figure or shaping the facial response of the viewers. So I never say that beauty contests are degrading womanhood. Thanks.

Hey there.

I think the beauty contests are actually no reason behind the degradation of the womanhood. Actually what womanhood means the period of a being and experiencing as a woman and a feminist life with own individual ideas, freedom and all.

The beauty contests which are held actually prove to be fruitful as in they help the contestants to enrich various skills like intellect, social behavior, and many such important aspects of life. The beauty is a God's gift to all of them but the thing which matters in all such contests is the unique character which the only one among them possess it and is known to be the winner.

So I think the degradation of the womanhood is not because of these beauty pageants but rather due to the issues that are going on in our society regarding the safety of our own sister's, mother's daughters.

Taking part into a beauty contest totally depends on that girl and her family.If a girl is appearing for a beauty contest it means her family is allowing her for so.Beauty contest is not all about beauty but its all about "Beauty with Brains".I am not denying for the fact that there are other platforms where a girl can show her talents.But taking part in a beauty contest will gain her some visibility and she can choose film industry or modelling as her career path if she wants to as generally girls from beauty contests choose these path as their careers.This contest will definately give them some confidence to reach higher platforms in their respective careers. With addition to this I want to say that there are some same kind of contests for boys also.So, my question is ARE THEY RESPONSIBLE FOR MALE DEGRADATION? :).

You can say yes if you think due to these contests women are becoming more self centered which is not a quality of women. If you think that they are promoting jealousy or materialism or just external beauty then also you can say yes they are degrading women.

But if you think the other way, these contests give women a chance to be admired or to be loved by all or dress up differently which I feel they like it is just a way of amusement and refreshment and a way to encourage them and not to hurt sentiments of others who are not externally that beautiful (actually external beauty is not the sole criteria of being beautiful and beauty depends upon the eyes of beholder as rightly said by someone).

So it do have negative aspects but if we search for positive in something then we can get away with negativity in it.

I think beauty contest are really degrading women and our culture. In India we worship god in the form of goddess like sita, radha, gori, durga and saraswati etc. The people in the west are more capable than us I accept, they have good skilled manpower, better technology, we should follow them in that, we should borrow their technology and skill but not their culture. And beauty contest is a western concept.

Character of an woman is her real beauty. By the words of swami vivekananda " personality is what a man looks but character is what a man is ". Some of my friends argue that, why do we see the bad in the beauty contests, as far as the bad is concerned we the human beings are civilized, we live in society not in jungle, protecting our shame by wearing dress is a thing that differentiate us from animals.

Hello, my dear friends.

I am Shivam. I would like to tell somthing about that topic.

As we all know that beauty contest is a platform where girls and women shows her talent.

We can't say that beauty contest degrading our culture.

What is actually means of beauty contest is that beauty contest means competition in which winner candidate is beautiful from mind, body, talent, skill and how to express ownself not only physical beauty.

Its all about people mentality what they think for girls and women.

With these platform women improve her talent, way of talking, gain confidence and help to build our nation.

So, I would like to end my view on this topic and finally say that who person say the beauty contest degrading the womanhood firstly they need to change their mentality, way of see the girls.

Thanks.