Both promote suffering for entertainment. In both cases that means both contestants and societal impact.
In dog fights, dogs get killed and people seeing them normalized get desensitized towards animal cruelty.
In pageants, models are incentivized to starve themselves and to subject themselves to cosmetic surgery, and people seeing that normalized feel like they need to do the same because of body image issues.
Both promote suffering for entertainment. In both cases that means both contestants and societal impact.
In dog fights, dogs get killed and people seeing them normalized get desensitized towards animal cruelty.
In pageants, models are incentivized to starve themselves and to subject themselves to cosmetic surgery, and people seeing that normalized feel like they need to do the same because of body image issues.
I think the comparison is pretty spot on.
This is the first I’ve heard of the cosmetic surgery! I’m surprised they don’t treat that like steroids in major sporting competitions.