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Let's Give Pedophile's A Show!
- Aug 3, 2009 at 10:49 PM
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I question the sanity of our society on a day to day basis. Since when does anyone have the right to judge anyone else on their appearance and what they should look like. In all honesty, what is “the norm”? What is beautiful? As far as I’m concerned, beauty is in the eye of the beholder- and what may be appealing to me, might not be for someone else. Which brings me to child beauty pageants and the parents that encourage the exploitation of their kids- especially their toddlers.
Beauty pageants that feature children are just plain cruel. Why? You might ask. Well, not only are these stage mother’s living through their children, but they are encouraging a fantasy world and a fictional definition of beauty. Beauty is not waking up at 5am in order to get bombarded with make up, fake tans, fake teeth, fake eye lashes, fake hair, fake nails- in other words, fake beauty! Aren’t mother’s supposed to teach their daughter’s that real beauty comes from within? Or that they don’t need to frolic around in ridiculous dresses or two piece bikini’s in order to get attention. Instead, they’re teaching their daughter’s that you have to be fake and put on a good show for people to think you’re pretty enough. It isn’t healthy, beauty pageants don’t bring confidence- they bring low self esteem and self doubt.
So, stage mom’s, stop pimping your daughter’s out! Stop giving perverted pedophile’s a show. Let your children be children. Allow your children to experience natural beauty and innocence. They will have so many years of self doubt on their own- they don’t need people pointing out their flaws, they’ll be able to do that themselves when they hit their teen years.
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I agree with you and every time I see TLC's show I get irritated.
Love it! I have to agree with you!!!!!!!! I have seen the show on TLC and it makes me sick. A child should be out having fun playing in the dirt..... not worrying about her hair and makeup!
I've seen the show on TLC also- and I have to be honest, the perfect example of what a child should not behave like- is the brunette girl who walks all over her mother. Does the mother not realize that she's turning her daughter into a little bitch?
While I agree with what you're saying, I don't believe all pageants are bad. My daughter has been in several pageants and I have NEVER put a stitch of make-up on her or fake tans or nails. She has won or come in as runner up in every one of them. She loves it. I decided this year that we are finished with pageants, I want her to try different things. Even when she was little if you asked her what the most important part of the pageant was, she would say, "the most important thing is for me to have fun and if I'm not having fun we can leave and do something else." She has never once left crying or upset b/c she didn't win and she always congratulates the winner if it's not her.
I find the child beauty pagents sickening also. Kids have a hard enough time with out having adult standards of beauty pushed down their throats. The stage moms are ridiculous and some need a good slap to the face. Wake up and realize you are setting your child up for failure when they are older.
I think that it's life.
Some kids want to be in pageants. Some are born to do it. You may have wanted to be a lawyer growing up; while another child may have wanted to be a model. You take the steps to get to your goal, they take the steps to get to theirs.
I do feel that some mothers may push their children too far in pageants, it's not the majority that do.
TLC exploits beauty pageants that include young children. Alot of what goes on, is provoked for tv. It's not really what pageants are like.
Just like, Real World. That's not how things are in "the real world." It's for show. Entertainment. It sells. So, does the beauty pageant show on TLC.
I wouldn't personally ever want my child in a beauty pageant. BUT, on the other hand, if she came home one day and wanted to give it a shot, I won't deny her that. She needs to explore all that she can. Find out what makes her happy. If it's a beauty pageant, so be it. I consider it an extracuricular; much like her soccer and basketball.
Miss G9 I agree and disagree with what you wrote. If a child, say 10 years old says she WANTS to be a model, or be in pageants- okay, give it a shot. Only because they want to do, not because they're being pushed into it. BUT the toddlers being MADE to do it because they "want" to do it, is pure bullshit. A toddler doesn't want to spend hours getting dolled up. They don't want to practice routines on a daily basis. They are being forced into it by their parents.. and all for what? How is being named miss whatever going to make them better? I don't understand pageants in that perspective.
I agree with isleysmom. They are setting their children up for failure and low self-esteem.
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