For all intents and purposes, beauty contests, whether they focus on feminine curves, or masculine biceps, are sexist.

I have just finished watching “Calendar Girls”, a movie starring Helen Mirren, who as Chris was looking for a way to raise funds for leukemia research, and was convinced that posing nude on calendar pages, was not a bad idea. The idea is lofty, but I found the method, a little disconcerting. Sex sells a lot of things, however this does not have to be the case. Just for posing semi-nude, a group of women became super models overnight - this casts a lot of shadow over the shallowness of human perception.

I am not a misogynist, and my love for women is as unparalleled as any Casanova out there, which is why I take an exception to beauty contests.

What beauty contests does to the image of women is to reduce their status to the lowest common denominator of “if you have the reward, I will show you the goods.” Who are actually interested in these goods that they have to display? Men of course. What does these say about our menfolk? It portrays men as drooling good for nothing dogs whose main preoccupation is sex, with anything in skirt at any time, and at all times. Sure, sex is a very good thing, but when it becomes an instrument of torment and operant conditioning of a vulnerable gender who actually do not realize their weakness, then it turns into poison. A lot of men on this planet are already conditioned to react spontaneously to sexuality, a state of existence that actually causes a slew of other negative behaviors like jealousy, feminine abuse, criminality and even wars. “Helen of Troy,” was a typical case in point. Another Helen: makes me wonder, considering hell rhymes with Helen.

In the animal world, mating is a seasonal event which most animal species celebrate with a lot of pomp and pageantry. Even though, male animals fight for domination of the female species, I do not see this as some kind of unsavory competition for their attention. Rather, it is possibly a tendency towards breeding and survival of the fittest as is reminiscent of the animal kingdom.

Anyway, what I am trying to say is that our society needs to grow out of the close to infantile pattern of behaviors that seems to run contrary to our level of intelligence; one of the most prominent of such behaviors being the unnecessary glorification of the human physique especially feminine exposition.