This house would ban beauty contests.

PRO:"As I have said in the 2nd round, "Individual freedom is very important, I admit, however, because beauty contests can be shown on television, newspapers and many more other ways of media. Its effects on people are huge. "Beauty contests have a very minimal effect. Essentially, beauty contests are very conservative, they merely reflect commonly held notions of beauty, but it is the society, not the beauty contests that set the standards for beauty. Even if you disagree with these common notions of beauty, I think that one can only blame beauty contests for a missed opportunity to challenge conventional beauty standards. PRO: " I would once more specific that if you do not watch or participate in beauty contests, you will still be able to listen many feedback and details through the media, your friends and relatives. It is definitely useless to say that if you do not watch or participate in beauty contests, you will not know anything about the details of the competition. "I guess one cannot shield oneself from the knowledge of the existence of beauty contests. But I cannot see how such knowledge would be so detrimental that beauty pageants should be banned altogether. PRO:"Moreover, I mentioned that beauty contests are degrading women - I admit that maybe participating in beauty contests may help gain the participants' confidence, as you have said - however, after the contests, people will always discuss if the winner or runner-ups really fit in their place. With the sections of swimming costumes and night gowns, they would compare their body shapes and more, often about the appearance and therefore this is setting a set of rules of what is called a beautiful women / lady. This in terms means degrading women. ""degrading" is in the eye of the beholder. Contestants in beauty pageants do not find it degrading. They choose to participate in a competition where their beauty is discussed and compared. They do not find this degrading and neither do I. Being evaluated by your looks is part of life, whether you want it or not. For most people, the physical appearance of a partner is important. A beauty contests judges contestants mostly by their beauty, which is only a part of the totality of a person. But that is OK. This does not imply that other aspects of a person should not be valued in life, but it is just not part of this particular competition. And of course one should also not assume that beauty queens are necessarily deficient those other categories. In the same way, a chess championship only judges contestants by their intelligence, not their personality or their looks. That of course doesn't mean that a chess champion could not be handsome/pretty or nice at the same time. A beauty contest does not degrade a contestant to just being beautiful. Indeed, there have been many examples of beauty queens that had other strong qualities as well. Examples I have not mentioned are Oprah Winfrey (Miss Black Tennessee 1971), Kate Perry, Blake Shelton and Sarah Palin (wait- maybe not a good example). Neither does a chess championship degrade a contestant to just being smart. Actually, the current chess world champion is also a fashion model:. http://static1.businessinsider.com... ConclusionPRO has not given any good reason why beauty contests are actually harmful. PRO claims that beauty contests are degrading, but this is subjective. Some men/women find it degrading, others do not. People who do not find it degrading should be allowed to participate. Even if there were minor negative effects of beauty pageants, banning them would be excessive, and the intrusion to individual freedom would be too large to be acceptable.