Child Beauty Pageants: Your thoughts?
- Thread starter Sparrow
- Start date
Recommended Videos
They take beautiful little girls and make them up to look like high priced prostitutes, then parade them before a panel of perverts and nut-jobs (sometimes these little girls wear skimpy outfits during these things) for "prizes and prestige". It's some of the most sickening garbage I've ever seen, and everyone that participates finds some of the most absurd excuses to justify what technically borders pedophilia and is absolutely exploitation. I'm frankly amazed it's not categorized as child abuse in my country (America).EcoEclipse said:
The whole thing is really sick to me. They dye the kid's hair, give them fake teeth, slap a pound of make up on their faces and then have them put on a bikini. That's the way to build self-esteem!
My favorite part is how the mothers always say "this is what she wants to do" and then you see the girl crying because she's tired and doesn't want to be in the pageant and just wants to play. It's truly disturbing sometimes.
Edit: Here's a little clip for those people who haven't seen a child beauty pageant before.
My favorite part is how the mothers always say "this is what she wants to do" and then you see the girl crying because she's tired and doesn't want to be in the pageant and just wants to play. It's truly disturbing sometimes.
Edit: Here's a little clip for those people who haven't seen a child beauty pageant before.
Wrong. It puts beauty over person in children's minds and they have to be judged at a young age, when they haven't even chosen, but are more talked into it.
It's a wonder that some of these mothers found time out of their busy schedule of dressing their children up and parading them around like 1930's streetwalkers in order to get upset about Mass Effect's sex scene "poisoning our childrens' minds".
Also:
Also:
I'm gonna go ahead and slam the "/thread" Seal of Approval on this quote here.Icehearted said:
It's subtle yet glorified erotica that makes it a form of child porn in my view. Creepy, wrong, sick and worst of all considered the norm!
It's just women who used to dress up Barbie and Baby-Dolls when they were seven, and they NEVER...FRICKING...GREW...UP...
It's just legalised paedophilia! And child abuse those parents are fucking nuts, and should have their kids taken off them!
I tried to hold back but meh, who cares!
I tried to hold back but meh, who cares!
Ya, ummm, just so your aware, the vast majority of American's despise beauty pagents as well. You may have also noticed on that TV show that many of the 40 something women had southern accents. Southern United States is where particularly strange human beings come into play. Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and other select "special" individuals come to mind...Sparrow said:
Well... i am fairly disturbed by the amount of parents that push their kid far enough as to break them to tears, i used to do some modeling when i was 10-13 (CLOTHES my mom´s past time was to make clothes) and i remember quite clearly one mother yelling at his daughter because she had lost weight and now the dress (by the way, really beautyfull) didn´t fit... i know it´s a different context but the pressure and stupidity of the parent was the same i turned to my mom and asked her "do my clothes fit??" she looked me from side to side and put some needles to pull the suit in the placess that looked loose "there!" haha what a difference... but some people only want to win no matter the cost (even if the cost is their child)
i find the pageants ok, and well within the limits, i mean beauty haves many forms and ways, but some parents to pose their kids and treat them as objects are definitely wrong... even more because they teach them that "looks" is the only thing that matter
i find the pageants ok, and well within the limits, i mean beauty haves many forms and ways, but some parents to pose their kids and treat them as objects are definitely wrong... even more because they teach them that "looks" is the only thing that matter
