The point is competition in beauty and usually some other attributes that basically determine likability.
The women who participate do it voluntarily (so lol at your insecurity nonsense) and they win cash prizes and recognition which will then help their career. Yes, like it or not there are plenty of careers based on appearance like modelling and acting.
Yes, I'm thinking you just took my post too literally. I was pointing out that having a competition where the only value of a woman is how beautiful she is (and maybe some likability?) is inherently old-fashioned and stupid because beauty is pretty objective and not as useful or impressive as, say, being the next surgeon general who also happens to be a woman. Emphasizing these as important events only creates a culture where women are objectified and young women are convinced they have to strive to be like them.
Calling it a competition doesn't really change anything, either. If we have a competition for who is the better nose picker, it doesn't change things.
I'm not sure why you had trouble grasping the obvious scathing vitriol, but just for the record, I don't (nor have I ever) believed that beauty pageants involve women being enslaved to stand in a line and be masturbated on.
Link HT posted...
Should we also ridicule body building competitions? Because they're basically the same thing.
Yes, I think that is pretty silly too, especially when they actually make themselves more unhealthy to do it.