Chadwick Moore

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What happened to the feminist war on beauty pageants?

Thanks to enterprising men, we’re hearing less about 'impossible standards' these days.

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Chadwick Moore
Mar 06, 2024
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A documentary broadcast last year on A&E chronicled former beauty pageant contestants who say they were forced to uphold impossible physical ideals to compete. Eating disorders, drug abuse, and mental trauma were rampant, they claimed, all to maintain that perfect look.

“It was an unrealistic standard to set and it’s an unrealistic standard to maintain,”…

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