Reply #6: I don't believe he said beauty is bad. Beauty pageants are meat markets [View All]

[leesa]

and I know a lot of women are willing to ignore that in order to get school scholarships, help with career promotion, etc., but beauty pageants and woman's and men's mags that foist a particular unreal image of woman onto the world are NOT good for women. Why do you suppose we have these incredible volumes of cosmetic surgery going on? Women do not feel they can be valuable unless they fit this model of woman pressed on us by these pageants and by the media. Unfortunately men are going the same route and are losing their 'right' to be just themselves.

Now the issue of being arrested and punished for participation in this kind of thing is ENTIRELY different. Of course this shouldn't happen. This is a social education issue to help men and women accept themselves and their bodies as they are, as long as those bodies are functional.