- Bad effects

This can lead to social, physical, mental, and health problems. This can be discouraging to women to be themselves, and encouraging to not eat, where more makeup, and change themselves to be "perfect".

(These contests help them to try their best to perfect themselves. They can focus on what they are best at and show the world who they really are through these contests)

- Teaching wrong things

It teaches children the worth of a person is almost solely based on appearance. They increase dieting, eating disorders, and lowers their self-esteem causing them to feel simply inaccurate and ugly. In beauty contests, beauty is only skin deep, and it puts others down.

(Beauty contests help participants overcome shyness and stage fright, and help boost their self-confidence. It aids in gaining a deeper, beyond what they think they can)

- Beauty is based on women's appearance

Beauty contests stress the contestants to have the thinnest bodies – the body types that many women cannot achieve. Women are made to feel inadequate if they can't live up to those beautiful, rail thin bodies. But you would never know that because beauty pageants only perpetuate the value of outside beauty.

(your own skin, your interviewing skills, knowledge, and ability to communicate are the most important requirement that the judges need from the competitors, not just their looks )

- Beauty contests promote an ideal of female beauty

Beauty contests are also very demeaning towards women and how we should act, what we should like, and how we should look like. Beauty contests make so many women all around the world feel bad about themselves, we need to change that.

(This is a TV program, another form of art, and many women enjoy entering it. The beauty of the healthy, well-proportioned human form is sth from which we can all take pleasure)