What do you get when you add glitter, heels, hairspray, and girls who train their voices to not hold any accent? A pageant. More specifically, a beauty pageant. What makes these things so appealing to little girls and women all over our country? Why do they feel the need to parade around a stage in a bathing suit? Is it for the crown, or do they think the flowers are pretty? Our culture is obsessed with what we define as "pretty", as skinny you can get until your diagnosed with a disease, with large breasts and a big behind. Women have gone as far as to get surgery to achieve these high and impossible standards set by ourselfs, the people we see everyday. The whole point of a pageant is to tell one girl, "Hey, you are the prettiest girl on this stage right now." Isn't that what the winners are? They are saying that the 4th runner up is pretty, but hey the 3rd is prettier than her, and the 2nd is even prettier, the 1st runner up is more prettier than her, however the winner is the prettiest of them all; she is prettier than all of you. One thing I know, I don't need to walk and spin around on stage for 3 minutes in order to be judged by people I have never met on how much make-up I have on, or how well I walk in heels to feel pretty.
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