Toddlers in Tiaras

[triggrhappy94]

It'll sure as hell teach those kids to rely on looks and glitter rather than personality and intelligence.

The ironic thing is that "personality" is one of the categories that they're judged on, which basically comes down to how well they smile.

 

[Sectan]

Because that falls within the perviews of your conundrums of Philosophy.

Made me think of the engineer from TF2 and I read the rest of your post in his voice.

Anywho, I don't like the show and everyone else here has explained what's messed up with it.

 

[ipitydaf00l]

I think its an absolutely disgusting thing and its somehow fitting its so popular in the US and nowhere else, however, when searching youtube just to double check this thread was about what I thought it was about, I did find this absolutely hilarious video.

Spoiler: It is a joke, right?

Thanks for sharing that video! I almost forgot Tom Hanks did that.

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Back to the topic at hand, I'm all for girls being in pageants if they want to be. (My daughter asked before to be in one that's held in town. Trust me, this would be the last thing I would be pushing for nor want to hear from her.) It just seems to be that the ones they show on TLC are more of the extremists who are really looking for their 15 minutes of fame or trying to gain something by having their child participate in those events.

Recently I've seen two different articles related to this (and lost the links sorry) but in one a 7 YEAR OLD GIRL went to get Botox, and another who was younger was getting breast implants. The 7 year old repeatedly kept saying that she just couldn't get wrinkles, she had to stay beautiful and the whole time I kept wondering, 'WHAT WRINKLES!'

WHY? Why do our little girls need to be put through things like that at such a young age and all for a pageant? It makes me wonder just what they are judging in the first place and maybe it's the pageant that needs to have it's qualifications reviewed/changed.

I will admit that I have a close friend who let her son do modeling and he's eight. It's something he was interested in doing and he's always been very particular about his 'looks' without any hint from her. I think that's fine, it's not something she's pushing on him for monetary gain and any money he's gotten has been deposited into savings for his future. I guess what I'm trying to say here is that there are parents out there that aren't that extreme, but unfortunately that's not newsworthy or something that would be a hit Reality Show.

 

[triggrhappy94]

That does raise an interesting question, though. Just how much right does a parent have to influence their children in such ways? None of this is illegal, but it certainly looks unhealthy, or at least unsettling to see such a life impressed upon such a blank slate. Parents have such tremendous power over their child's development, and it sucks to see someone with a lifestyle you don't approve of creating a copy of themselves in so many ways on such a blank slate.

Doesn't that rely on the child already being born a blank slate, and not pre-conditioned to grow up into a hooker? Just saying.

 

[Lilani]

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Psh, this isn't new. Pageants like this have been around for a LONG time. People only know about it now because TLC has a fixation on bad parents.