One Argentine city has put benevolence before beauty choosing to ban beauty pageants and replace them with a community awards contest honoring young women who have contributed the most to their community. Officials at Chivilcoy, a town of 60,000 people in Buenos Aires province, believe the pageants promote gender stereotypes and reinforce the idea that women should only be valued for their appearance. Beauty is not quantifiable. Therefore, to qualify and organize a competition based on this is discriminatory and violent, they said. Read more via The Telegraph: bit.ly/1AYh4Hw via Half the Sky
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 22:00:03 +0000
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