do beauty contests does harm?

If you lack the height, then you should not persuade yourself in the line-up, imagine when all the other contestants 5'6" tall and you happen to be 4'9" you could be the laughing stock of the crowd. I am not telling about your height, i am just giving my opinion, maybe it time we eat your cake.

hi lovieron you raise some good points as there are lots of women who are short and pretty as a picture so are they not pretty rather than ugly? You are right,it does seem unfair the way the beauty pageant writes up their requirements. beauty comes in all sizes and I have met other women who are both smart and attractive too. That's part of the reason why I dislike beauty pageants so much.

There will be criteria at all places for all the competition, if the person are not that beautiful but smarter can have their own level of competition, its not to hurt them , but the competition doesn't run on emotions, its a race, Basically there shouldn't be an space for ugly people in the beauty contest not to hurt sentiments of any people- its a competition the best has to win, even in a beauty contest each person participate at their own standards of life

I don't think that beauty contests are harmful. My teenaged daughter is been a few of them. It has been a good experience for her. I think any harm comes in the types of people who set out to use these contests ti hurt others. It is attitudes that harm beauty contests not the events themselves.

Hi lovieron: I actually think that an intelligent woman should not participate in one of this contests, simply because she will be evaluate for her beauty and not for what she really is. I think that the idea of beauty contests degrades the concept of feminity because they will evaluate women according to their beauty canons like an object so I would say that they should care more on the intelligence, but let's face it, people call them beauty contests because that's their priority. Thanks for your answer. Have a nice day. ALVARO.

Everything can be done and improving our body figure is not that hard. Its in fact very satisfaction giving and improves our self esteem. Looking on the other side of it, everyone have some unique and special ability or possession. Some have less and some have more. We don't have to worry about, if we are having less things of being proud of. We just need to keep trying to improve and one day will there when we can be proud of ourself.

Well, beauty in general can be harmful. The things that women and people do, just in the name of beauty, are pretty harmful. Women, and sometimes men as well, can have misconceptions about beauty, and they can think that if they are not beautiful on the outside, then they are not beautiful at all. I have met and seen women who have been beautiful their entire lives reach their late 40s and 50s, and they begin to feel self-conscious about who they are because they know that they are not a beautiful as they used to be, and that they cannot get what they used to get when they were beautiful; whereas, a woman who has never been deemed "pretty" or "beautiful" by society will not be very self-conscious about herself, she will concentrate on her brain, and she will not worry about her beauty because it is something that she never really had. Can beauty, not just beauty contest, be harmful? Yes.