What is feminism? Some people still think that feminists are women who detest the opposite sex. But in fact that is very far from the truth.
Feminists are women who don’t want to put up with more negative and disrespectful treatment to woman as opposed to men. At least so it was in the past, when feminism was just being born. No one can object that years ago women’s opinion wasn’t taken into consideration at all on all the levels of life – they couldn’t vote, marry who they wanted, study properly… They couldn’t influence anything. And this continued until some really wise and powerful women were born and gave up their lives to fighting for equal rights with men, and that is thanks to them that nowadays in many countries of the world the equity of rights is a commonly accepted concept.
However, not everything is perfect yet. There is no equity of rights in the complete sense of these words. In theory we know that it should be, but in practice everything is different. Yes, women can vote now as well as perform every single function in society than men do. But have you seen a lot of women say in government? Occupying administrative posts? We can’t speak of any equity of rights when a woman needs to try twice as much harder in order to achieve what she wants. So, as long as there is a concept of feminism and as long as we have debates on this issue, there will be no equity.
Now I am going to speak about the relation between beauty contests and feminism. Why do feminists tend to be against it? Their main argument is – the woman taking part in a beauty contest is merely an object of entertainment. And again, she walks in front of the judges who are mostly men and displays herself in front of them, letting them judge her by their prejudiced and subjective principles, as if the woman isn’t beautiful by herself and needs to be told about her beauty in such a contradictory way. This is where beauty contests are in disagreement with feminists, because in their opinion beauty contests display woman as a representative of inferior sex.
There have been discussions about banning beauty contests, but the latter aren’t actually doing any harm to anyone, that is why this request is unlikely to ever be accepted. Besides, the girls are taking part in these contests of their own free will, no one is making them do that.
Feminists claim that beauty contests show only one side of the feminine nature and casts false colour on the image of woman. Beauty is not everything a woman can be proud of, there are much more important things like being a good wife of her spouse, daughter of her parents and mother of her children.
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