Chantal Jouanno, in the image, she is a senator in France and has achieved that her proposal for remove mini Miss contests prosper with 196 votes in favor and 146 against. The objective of his initiative was prevent girls from believing they are supermodels or that brands and their commercial interests are above the interests of society in addition to avoiding hypersexualization (?) of girls. So beauty pageants are going to prohibit for children under 16.
As already approved by Congress and the French Senate, now only the National Assembly has to issue its verdict. The ban also provides economic sanctions of 30,000 euros and prison sentences up to two years for the organizers of beauty contests that break the standard.
The person in charge of Mini-Miss France contest is called Michel Leparmentier and has indicated that it considers the Law excessive and indicated that ethical criteria were already applied in competitions. According to Leparmentier, the purpose of this prohibition is parents, who will be prevented from having their daughters participate and has also indicated that You can always go to Belgium to organize the contest because there are no laws They ban it.
In my opinion, all these things that are resolved with prohibition seem more like a way to justify the salary of bureaucrats than to offer solutions to the society for which they govern. We are seeing generations of politicians, not only in Spain, who seem to make laws so that others come later, three or four years later, and repeal them. And start over.
I think it's more important work for education, for training, for encouraging clarification and explanation of things in family homes, for building critical visions among children and especially for training responsible people.
And I also think that brands can do what they see fit with their products and it will be the market that adjusts and establishes what each one wants to consume.
