Personal Essay: How the Culture of Beauty Pageants and Mainstream Representations of Beauty Oppress Women
By Ana Farkhondeh, age 13 Earlier this year I wrote an argumentative essay for school critiquing beauty pageants. I chose this topic because as a proud feminist, I strongly believe that beauty pageants are demeaning toward women, and they endanger young girls’ mental health and the competitors’ physical health. While many people believe that these …
