Child Beauty Pageants: Your thoughts?

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Beauty Pageants in general is a stupid and tasteless idea, regardless of the age and species of the contestants. But when it goes into using underage children, then it just moved beyond from being only tasteless and stupid into being flat out disturbing...

 

[twistedshadows]

Beauty pageants always disturb me, but they're especially bad when children are involved. It always seems like the parents are living vicariously through their kids, which will probably damage the kid irreparably and is just sort of sick in general.

Anyway, I find that appaling, but also <a href=http://pageantphotoretouching.homestead.com/images/rebonline.jpg>This <a href=http://digital-lifestyles.info/copy_images/pageant-makeover-lg.jpg>,This <a href=http://pageantphotoretouching.homestead.com/Hailey_digi.jpg>,This and <a href=http://pageantphotoretouching.homestead.com/cmsonline.jpg>This.
Parents retouching their childs(Who already look like dolls)pictures because they aren't beautiful enough for the parents!
These are (Rightfully) Featured on the TV tropes High octane nightmare fuel Real-life page.

Okay, those definitely horrified me. I mean, I've seen the pageants, but who the fuck does that? Those poor kids will have to grow up knowing their parents were disappointed because they didn't look like CGI barbies.

 

[brainfreeze215]

I think they're terrifying. And the film Little Miss Sunshine comes to mind right away.

 

[Zedzero]

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1781/

That is all.

 

[Nemorov]

Mother who make their daughters do this should be incarcerated

Mothers who make their daughters do this should be incinerated.

 

[Smagmuck_]

By the time all those girls are sixteen they'll be knocked up and addicted to coke (and not the drink eiather).

 

[dalek sec]

This crap needs to be outlawed at once.

 

[magnuslion]

I am against this and any other form of "child modeling" that is essentially child porn in disguise. seven year olds in bathing suits? wtf?

 

[Eldarion]

I think this is the one time I can shout "SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!" and it is completely justified.

The pageants are an abomination, it is definitely child abuse on soo many levels.