Miss World met with protests at UK 60th anniversary show

Published: Sunday, November 06, 2011

Demonstrators gathered in Earls Court, west London, as the Miss World contest returned for its 60th anniversary show.

The event is still watched by an estimated one billion people around the world, involving women from 113 countries.

Kat Banyard, founder of UK Feminista and author of The Equality Illusion, says that the competition has no place in modern Britain:

"It perpetuates the beauty myth [and] indoctrinates people across the world with its toxic ideals, We know that [those ideals] have a very harmful effect."

Clara Belle, the current Miss Durham and a Miss England finalist, thinks that protesters have failed to understand pageant culture:

"We're there by choice, we enjoy it, we support each other. There's a lot of friendship, we build our own confidence, we learn to speak on stage and getting involved in our local community and raise money for charity.

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