“Our task must be to free ourselves by
widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole
of nature and its beauty.”
-Albert
Einstein
Beauty Queens
By Talia Malekan
For centuries,
society has been centered on a most important axis, rotating around what is
perhaps the essential governing requirement of existing on this earth as a
member of what Charles Darwin speculated to be a race of the fittest, that is,
Beauty. Tracing as far back to the ancient Greeks and continuing on until
today, a communally shared objective has been to achieve the most absolute
state of Beauty. But how does one define Beauty? Is Beauty marked by perfect
skin and long straight hair that flows down to the waist, by deep blue eyes and
clear wrinkle-less complexions? Or might I challenge us all and ask if real and true Beauty is derived from an internal state of being, from what
the very famous Jane Eyre thinks of as the human being’s sense of humanity and
integrity, compassion and humility? I write this proposal with the intention of
discarding the silliness that surrounds the academic’s view of Beauty. Let’s
not be foolish here since I think that as much as we all venture down the path
of making up excuses for the less-fortunate looking, we must face ourselves in
the mirror soon-after; we must admit that nothing trumps the outer physical
perfection of Beauty. Why else have we
gone to such lengths to showcase and advertise these ideal qualities in the
media that permeates through our culture, coloring our everyday lives and
providing the young, unarmed eye with a totalizing vision of what it truly
means to be beautiful. We all know this, each of us has come to recognize it on
our own terms. Why else would Victoria’s
Secret lingerie catalogue be the most coveted read? Why else are Vogue fashion
magazines interpreted as equaling the Bible in stature and privilege by the
most prestigious members of human society? Why else, I ask, is the Marc Jacobs
runway the place where the best and the brightest are now applying to trumpet their
great achievements after finishing their college educations? In purchasing new
trending clothing each season, layering the best of MAC and Este Lauder makeup
and trying to achieve a perfect figure, teenage girls are beginning to fix
themselves in working towards becoming models and actresses rather than
excessively read doctors and pedantic educators. To avoid the absurd
expectation that children and young female adults strive for anything further
than the perfect look, what would be an egregious potential error on the part
of the American nation, we should institute a televised show that will be
followed closely by millions in which little girls are dressed up by their
parents and entered into beauty pageants.
The
benefits of such a television show would be numerous and are obvious. I will
list them anyway in case a lay reader finds his way to this proposal. The
argument is simple and cogent—everyone knows that as children grow up they are
already competing for beauty, so what better way than to start young with the
accompaniment of parents, a definite competitive edge. By signing up to be on
the show, girls from the ages four to seven will be able to compete on live
television. Here they will be judged on the basis of their talent, personality
and most importantly their Beauty. Children must be entered by a parent, which
will ensure their safety and surely counteract any possible negative side
effects of their exposure to the public. Their fake eyelashes, spray tans,
extensions and appointments, all scheduled with their parent’s permission, will
ensure complete mental stability and even intellectual growth. Although some children will not feel special
enough to enter, recognizing that they have not been naturally endowed with the
most acceptable combination of Beauty traits, the show will afford these
otherwise social outcasts the opportunity to be proactive in matters concerning
their lives. America
is all about the Jeffersonian principle of working your way up! If you are an
alcoholic, you are expected to attend AA, if you are schizophrenic, then get on
those antipsychotics, and so this logical thread leads us to my exact
conclusion: if you are an unseemly and unkempt small girl, you must enter a
beauty pageant. Any children who have excessive doubt will have to trust in
their parent’s intuition which will serve them higher good in the long run.
After all, they will be beauty queens and this is something that has been
naturally inherited in the blueprints of their genes and defined by the very
existence of their second X chromosome. Widely accepted for their physical
attractiveness, adolescents emulating beauty standards has become a fact of
nature and should, therefore, be exhibited and venerated at any given
opportunity.
In addition to having the opportunity to
compete on live television, these young ladies will also be eligible to win
large financial rewards. Families from all over the country will be able to
compete, no matter how rich or poor they may be. Low-income families can enlist
their daughters into these pageants too! We certainly do not discriminate in
matters of allotting financial aid to Beauty pageant winners. Although each
family will be directing its income towards dressing up its daughter and making
her appear older and more ideal, each young lady will have a whopping near two
percent chance of winning! As Honey Boo Boo once taught us all, “I want to win
because I want to win money. A dollar make me holler Honey Boo Boo Child.” Like
our exemplary starlet Honey Boo Boo, these young girls will be overwhelmed with
supernatural Beauty that captures the viewers’ hearts with the help of their
dazzling appearances and irresistible charms. Viewers will be able to worship
these young girls’ qualities that may not be artificially contrived, as they
strive for sparkly crowns, lots of cash and huge titles. With the help of
golden curls, hot-pink nails and cherry-colored lips, there is no telling to
who can rise to the top.
In the end, we
must always refer to those principles that have guided us most efficiently
through centuries of successful living. Animals are already ahead of us in
their selection for the best traits. Female peacocks choose mates based on
which males display the most elaborate plumage and so it follows that human
males judge similar physical attributes in choosing mates. We must recognize
these facts and act accordingly. Good parents are prepared parents—let us all
invest in the future of our young girls, fostering the most important virtue
they can ever hope to acquire—true outward Beauty.
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Cited
http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/12921/toddlers-and-tiaras-honey-boo-boo-child/
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