Dr. Sandra Faulkner, director of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio (department of communication faculty member), argues that beauty pageants objectify women. “The focus is on youth and looking good and, in many ways, these are impossible standards. They reinforce comfortable notions on what being feminine and what being a woman should be all about.”
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