Child Beauty Pageants: Your thoughts?
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I was going to bring that up too. That part was actually disturbing to me, not to mention the pedophile in the audience.zeldakong64 said:
I completly agree with you on this one I take it you were watching the
"Little Miss UK" on BBC 3? because thats the one I saw and personaly I thought it was disgusting. There were some there that looked genuinely cute but all the others were just fucking horrible.
I think my main reason for hating them is because of the kids model portfolio I mean if you look at an 8 year old trying to look sexy it will make you feel sick and all the slutty clothes that they make their kids wear is just un-natural you know what I mean?
"Little Miss UK" on BBC 3? because thats the one I saw and personaly I thought it was disgusting. There were some there that looked genuinely cute but all the others were just fucking horrible.
I think my main reason for hating them is because of the kids model portfolio I mean if you look at an 8 year old trying to look sexy it will make you feel sick and all the slutty clothes that they make their kids wear is just un-natural you know what I mean?
I'm from the US and it's common, but it is far from right. Pagents such as these have a way of developing kids with a superiority complex that is oddly fragile. So if I was to, say, inform them of how pointless their lives and pagents really were, they would breakdown and I'm made out to be the bad guy. Then, when I let them go on about their pagents without saying a word they get to act like a raving bitches. It's the most annoying thing in the world and is going to leave some of these girls with a hell of a reality check down the line.Sparrow said:
We really need to get rid of pagents like these.
It starts to go wrong when you realize that most of the 40+ year old women are really living their own life through their children. Until (like the OP mentioned) people take it too far, I see no problem with it. Girls like to look pretty. More importantly, they like others telling them they look pretty. It's one of those majestic laws of life.
Well, you could just protest them by holding up signs saying "Sponsored by NAMBLA". It ought to freak enough people out.
Well....I think they're awesome.
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Just kidding, it just seemed like a one sided discussion. I think it's sick personally.
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Just kidding, it just seemed like a one sided discussion. I think it's sick personally.
Ignoring the extreme parents who force their children to do a certain sport or they are failures (I hope they are few and far between) the psychology behind pageants is slightly different.Vuljatar said:
Most little league sports are team sports correct? (I'm from the UK, we dont have little league here) so you win as a team or lose as a team and theres the whole social and physical exercise aspect of it all. It doesnt focus solely on winning and losing, hopefully good sportsmanship is taught and the children just enjoy taking part.
However with pageants many mothers impress on their daughter that winning is all and beauty is all, to the point these girls base their entire self esteem on these pageants, which are actually ALL about winning or losing. Imagine a girl who's been told shes beautiful her whole life and that its the only thing that matters, she enters one of these pageants only to find out that some other girl is more beautiful and unlike sports where you can make yourself fitter and more skilled, you can't (or at least with difficulty) make yourself more attractive, you look the way you look.
I feel so sorry for these poor girls, in their childhood their mothers tell them beauty is all and in a few years when they're teenagers and women, the whole of society (media, films, adult beauty contests, potential boyfriends, fashion industry etc) is telling them the same thing, having their self confidence shattered so early and having no other persuits to make up for it will make life very difficult for them
I'm american, and I still don't get child pageants.
These kids get bronzed and turned into tiny versions of twenty-something models. That their parents allow this, let alone help with and endorse it, is beyond belief. Hey, let's give our kids body issues when they're less than ten years old, then take away their childhood in favor of a viciously competitive and de-humanizing exercise that amounts to valuing each child based on their performance! We get paid, and they get a miserable life and self-esteem issues! Everyone wins!
These kids get bronzed and turned into tiny versions of twenty-something models. That their parents allow this, let alone help with and endorse it, is beyond belief. Hey, let's give our kids body issues when they're less than ten years old, then take away their childhood in favor of a viciously competitive and de-humanizing exercise that amounts to valuing each child based on their performance! We get paid, and they get a miserable life and self-esteem issues! Everyone wins!