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Why target only beauty pageants? Why not the portrayal of women in movies, or prostitution. If people protested against these more than they do beauty pageants it might actually bring down crime-related sex. Shriram Ramamurthy, USA...
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Are they a good thing? Are they benign and harmless? Or do they debase and objectify women? ... or a million other things that 'objectify' women, it's wholly up to the individual to decide if she feels she's being objectified or not. ... Poll question: Beauty Pageants For Women...
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Rediff On The NeT, Movies: The review of Desh Deepak's Jahan Tum Le Chalo ... Which perhaps is why Namrata dictates a column to her secretary in which she pans beauty pageants because they debase women, comparing it to the old kotha system.
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www.rediff.com/movies/1999/jan/15jah.htm
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The propriety of beauty pageants may best be explored in terms of the issue of the commodification of women. Radical feminists oppose beauty pageants because they allegedly treat women as commodities and perpetuate their image as sex objects.
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How’d she hit the nail on the head on this one? Beauty pageants is my #1 issue in this campaign. I can’t wait to hear Feingold defend his position on that one! ... “They bombed it, and afterwards I heard the screams of women, children, and a few men — they were crying for help. But then one minute after the first...
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thinkprogress.org/2006/08/01/malkin-qana/
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Beauty pageants do (or do not) debase women. The minimum wage should (or should not) be waived for adolescent and young adult workers. Despite their legal tax deductions and loopholes, all millionaires should (or should not) be required to pay federal income tax.
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IN SOME countries, feminists stage impassioned but impotent protests outside beauty pageants. In Nepal, the women of the new Maoist regime had a more effective solution: shut down the city where it was going to be held.
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For older women and men, it's a matter of how they present themselves and how they treat the pageant. Beauty pageants, I think, are nothing but narrscism. Beauty is stereotyped in these pagaents; even if for a good cause. ... are debasing to women. The reason I know this is because they don't have male beauty pageants.
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Shhhh ... if women didn't do weird things like that to debase themselves, they'd never ... I don't really know why they are called beauty pageants, because I don't think there is really any standard to judge who is more beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so it would be hard just to judge off of looks alone.
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