Sunday, May 20, 2012

Debating Beauty Pageants includes different quotes and ideas from on-lookers of society. The article itself states, Pageants push girls to put on airs and wear facades. The answers they give to the questions are rehearsed and meaningless. We should not be applauding the foolishness of pageantry. We all wear evening clothes to special occasions, or swimsuits to the pool. What do we need pageants for? It's easy to walk: put one foot in front of the other and move away from the pageants.

Christine Von Wangenheim believes that apart from being degrading, pageants are a huge money-making racket. Most girls have to be ''graduated'' toward the coveted crown; hence they attend the same kind of pageant over and over. Usually this is to the tune of thousands of dollars.

Questions: 

Why are these competitions so costly, yet so appealing?

Citation: 

VON WANGENHEIM, C. (1997, February 9). New york times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/09/nyregion/debating-beauty-pageants.html


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  1. MMenaMay 20, 2012 at 6:55 PM

    These competitions are so costly because of all the clothing, make-up, and preparations that are needed for the pageant, but they are so appealing because right now everyone is constantly competing to show that they can be the best and will do anything to prove it.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 29, 2016 at 6:24 AM

    Miss Cleveland Crackhead reaches five years!

    Each year at this time I feature a working girl of one of the many such Avenues in our fare city. This years entry is twenty year old Sarah. Surprised that I wished to take her picture for the twenty dollars she asked. But for me, quite the bargain for a model.

    I've never been of the mindset, that Art is a thing of beauty. Rather, it should throw light on issues that matter. And yes, for those of you with whom my name resonates, I am the artist who at fifteen created the tie-dyed Peace symbol.

    Check me out on either LinkedIn or DeviantArt. In Cleveland, I leave my work throughout the city, free for the taking, as found art. Perhaps this is why the was Louvre recently quoted; calling me the "Artworld's Robin Hood".

    Marc Breed
    America's fetish Photographer

    http://deadartistwalking.blogspot.com/

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