Are beauty pageants obsolete? 10 Articles

by Sonja Tallon

Beauty pageants obsolete? I wish. Maybe the traditional televised talent, speech, & swim suite competitions where Miss Texas always wins are over. But are they still lingering in the hearts of those who grew up with th...read more

by Timothy D Heard

Are beauty pageants obsolete? Unfortunately, no. But it would seem that there is less and less interest and emphasis on this manner of degrading and pointless competition. This type of activity just goes to show how...read more

by Louise Breland

Beauty pageants are obsolete! Why because they no longer promote what they had originally set out to do. I always had a problem with them from the very beginning. Why? When I was growing up there was only one standard o...read more

by Alfred Nylund

Beauty pageants aren't obsolete as long as we recall the purpose of the beauty pageant, which is of course for the competition and enjoyment of the participants themselves. Pageants are a sort of confidence-building exe...read more

by Travis Casey

Miss USA or Miss World has a nice ring to it. But it doesn't bring in the dosh that a supermodel can. One no longer has to be clean living to get to the top of the game. It is a wonderful idea of young, beautiful, inte...read more

by Ericka Grosvenor

Beauty pageants are a thing of the past. American society simply doesn't care about the pageant scene any longer. Can you name the current Miss America? I can't. The pageant that all beauty queens strive for Miss Ameri...read more

by Nathan H

Beauty pageants are obsolete. This society already constantly judges women for their beauty. Magazine covers, models, actresses, and millions of other images bombard women each year. Why should society encourage women to e...read more

by forevertwentyone

There are many parents who spend thousands of dollars every year on entering their young children in beauty pageants. Lets be real here, the parents are not doing it for their children, but for themselves. They are only fu...read more

by Angela Coleman

The recent disclosures that the current Miss USA Tara Conner and Miss Teen USA Katie Blair are not the representatives of purity and modest virtue they are expected to be should not come as a surprise. As much as beauty...read more

by Kirstie Speke

Yes! They are such a bizarre outdated spectacle - rows and rows of a generic brand of woman (despite different nationalities they all end up looking oddly the same don't they?). All of them grinning through their lip gloss...read more