Here's a news article I came across some time ago:
As you will see if you follow that link, someone has been judged to be the "youngest most beautiful woman in the universe".
I continue to be confounded by beauty pageants and what they stand for. On the one hand: "Don't objectify women. Don't stereotype beauty." On the other: "This is what we mean by beauty: Just this skin tone and just this breast and waist size, yaadi yaadi yaa..."
Likewise for competitions involving the male gender!
This is plain schizophrenic behaviour man :)! There's beauty all around and to each of us, his or her lover is beautiful/handsome.
Left to me, I would replace beauty pageants with compassion pageants. With no regards to gender, race, religion or colour : recognize and appreciate as many acts of compassion and kindness around the world every year as you can.
We all want a more humane and compassionate society than today, one that is capable of some depth of thought and sentiment. I tell you: shift the spotlight and social thought shall shift. Once thought shifts, actions will follow.
Am I making sense here?
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