Victoria Hamah Advises Women To Ditch Beauty Contests
Executive Director for Progressive Organisation for Women’s Advancement (POWA)Victoria Hamah, has asked women not to patronize beauty pageants.
The former Deputy Minister for Communications, said at a book launch in Accra that beautypageants sexuality, objectify and demean womanhood.
According to her, the stereotypical concept of beauty by the pageants make women who don’t fall in their criteria lose their self-worth and pride.
“We can’t continue to perpetuate the very ideas that isolate women from effective processes of engagement, by these same norms and traditions and sub-institutions that perpetuate that,” she said.
Speaking at the programme, Victoria said although Inna Patty, Chief Executive of ExclusiveEvent Ghana, organizers of the Miss Ghana pageant, is a good friend, their ideologies onpageantry differ, explaining that beauty pageants isolate women.
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She further stated that Ghana made a mistake when it organised the first Miss Ghana pageant during the country’s first Independence celebration.
“It is as if that was our relevant contribution towards the independence process. So the men fought and struggled and brought power and we (women) have to go and showcase our beauty,” she added.
Beauty pageants have come under scrutiny on the back of countless allegations of pimping, extortion and sexual immorality.
Meanwhile, there are some who believe that beauty contests play critical roles like building one’s confidence, with beauty queens often taking up social projects, among other things.
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