Global Context
Beauty pageants are not only an issue in the United States; countries like France have pushed this issue further by banning beauty pageants for young girls. In 2013, the French senate approved of banning beauty pageants for girls younger than the age of 16. Chantal Jouanno, the ban’s champion states, “It is extremely destructive for a girl between the age of 6 and 12 to hear her mother say that what’s important for her is to be beautiful...We are fighting to say: What counts is what they have in their brains.” Furthermore, the issue of beauty pageants for young girls is extremely important to France, therefore emphasizing that beauty for girls should not be portrayed in pageants. In Australia, Protesters gathered in Melbourne's CBD on Saturday to rally against a child beauty pageant being held at Northcote, in the city's north, in which babies as young as two months old were enrolled.
They called for new laws to ban young children entering beauty pageants, and a code of conduct for the children's performances.Catherine Manning, from protest group Pull the Pin on Beauty Pageants for Children, says age restrictions are needed for such events. France and Australia have proven ways that this issue can be solved at a global level, by starting out protesting and banning beauty pageants for young girls this can lead to the banning of all types of beauty pageants and not only in France but in other countries around the globe.
Beauty pageants are not only an issue in the United States; countries like France have pushed this issue further by banning beauty pageants for young girls. In 2013, the French senate approved of banning beauty pageants for girls younger than the age of 16. Chantal Jouanno, the ban’s champion states, “It is extremely destructive for a girl between the age of 6 and 12 to hear her mother say that what’s important for her is to be beautiful...We are fighting to say: What counts is what they have in their brains.” Furthermore, the issue of beauty pageants for young girls is extremely important to France, therefore emphasizing that beauty for girls should not be portrayed in pageants. In Australia, Protesters gathered in Melbourne's CBD on Saturday to rally against a child beauty pageant being held at Northcote, in the city's north, in which babies as young as two months old were enrolled.
They called for new laws to ban young children entering beauty pageants, and a code of conduct for the children's performances.Catherine Manning, from protest group Pull the Pin on Beauty Pageants for Children, says age restrictions are needed for such events. France and Australia have proven ways that this issue can be solved at a global level, by starting out protesting and banning beauty pageants for young girls this can lead to the banning of all types of beauty pageants and not only in France but in other countries around the globe.
