May 26, 2012
i have one word: DISGUSTING
fake teeth, spray tans, pounds of makeup, wigs and ive seen some strut around and dance in BIKINIS. hmm, a pedophile's dream??
the mothers are either using their cute little girls for money or living their own dreams through their child
how do you feel towards them??
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Little children don't need to be exploited like that. They need to be CHILDREN, not dolls in a competition for beauty. No child deserves to go through that. It's disgusted.
HA HA
ick..
they all look like dolls =)
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I have to agree with you. I have been told i should put my daughter in a beauty contest but i couldn't. I just feel that it is one of the worst ways to show you children how to be vain and superficial. I don't want that for my child.
I don't want to p!ss people off but beauty pageants for children are pathetic.
Yeah Budgie, all our children are just so ugly and we are all just so jealous. Grow up. Listen to yourself.
I am not wearing make up and i hate to disappoint you but there are no tears either. Too bad, so sad.
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The only opinions that matter when it comes to your children are YOUR OWN.
I completely agree with you!
I was watching "Toddlers and Tiaras" and they were plucking a 4 year olds eyebrows!! Wtf? Some people are screwed up.
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i hate it when i see parents living their own dreams through their children
uterly diqusting and it should be considered child abuse
hollyy
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Is your child ugly or something? I've been to and aided in child beauty pagents and Yes they look like china dolls but who cares. They take off the frilly dresses and stockings and go and play in the street after. You can't force a child to do it because if they cry they get splotchy and ruin the make up. The girls want to do it. If not why then do they do it at 12-16? They wear all the make to cover the little flaws like a scratch or pimple. Spray tans are essential unless you want a little girl to look like a Cullen. The lights are so bright that unless they're darkened they wash out.
Oh have a cry, oh wait that would ruin your make up. Poor baby Yahoo answers user
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I was a beauty pageant little girl, hair, make-up, 1000 dollar outfits. And I would never put that on my child. For the first 6 years I didn't have a childhood. I mean I won alot but there were times I didn't and as a child that completely crushed me. Even being so little, most people thinking that children so young, it doesn't effect but it does. I felt I was cute or pretty anymore when someone else one, or that my mother was mad at me or I would be a disappointment to my family and that maybe my mother wouldn't want me anymore. Then in my teen years when I did make wrong choices or decided to lounge around in sweats all day, I'd have to hear about how graceful I was and how pretty I used to be, and so it even effected my everyday life then too. So I think they are sick and mothers are definitely living their lives through their children, including my mother. I would never push my child into anything..at all. And if they wanted to do it I wouldn't let them until I felt they were at an age or maturity level that they could accept that they won't always be first. I like pageants in general are wrong, teaching young ones that they are all equally beautiful and that's not at all true.
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I definitely know exactly what you're talking about, it is disgusting and I don't know how anyone can do that to their child,
BUT,
i'd rather the kids have parents who care enough for their 'self confidence' and 'success' then to have parents who DON'T care, beat them, etc. you know?
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It upsets me that all pageants get a bad name just because of things like this. I do pageants, but I do natural pageants, so that means no makeup, bikinis or false teeth or any of that crap. People automatically think of all of this when they hear pageant, and it's sort of sad. I don't think this kind of stuff you put here is cool at all. I don't approve of the little girls getting tanned and getting makeup piled all over their faces – I don't know what that is supposed to teach them. If it is the girl's choice, I think maybe it should be okay if she is over ten or so. Some girls actually do want to do that stuff though. They think it's fun to dress up and stuff. They did a Tyra show on this a while back, and a four year old was talking about how she liked "getting pretty" and stuff. If it is a hobby of the child, then fine – so be it. I think though, that girls should fill their time with things they can learn from. A pageant that I love though called National American Miss is nothing like that. Girls 12 and under are not allowed to wear makeup at all. The clothes have to be age appropriate, and there is no swimsuit competition. We walk naturally, and don't do that weird puff out your chest and swing your arms thing (which is very annoying) And there is no big gigantic hair! Our scores are based off of interviews, community service, personal introductions, and formal wear, and we can sign up to participate in speech competitions as well. There are special contests for art, community service, and academic achievement. So when I say "Oh yeah, I placed in the top five in the spokesmodel competition last year" and people reply "Oh, that's one of the better ones. At least you didn't get 'best legs'" or something like that, it upsets me because everyone thinks I must be this materialistic girl who just piles on crap-loads of makeup for fun, and that isn't true at all. I placed in the top fifteen last year because of my good speaking skills and poise onstage. I have acne, and I don't have straight teeth. I wore no makeup or "flippers" and I nearly fell off of the stage because I couldn't see, and I still placed in the top fifteen out of almost 100, and I wouldn't call that relying on my looks just to get by. I work my butt off at school. Sorry, I just kind of vented. I think that this stuff is sickening, but at the same time…… whatever floats your boat. I'm just sick of this stuff giving good pageants a bad name. Kids deserve to be kids – they have time for makeup when they get to be alot older. Still, there are some kinds of pageants that build confidence and life skills that are also helpful for children. Before I did my first pageant at seven, I was super shy and couldn't talk to anyone. Now all the adults I meet tell me how I am so poised and polite, and I know that I totally gained all those skills from pageantry.
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i agree…definitely wrong! child specially toddlers are suppose to be playing and enjoying their childhood. if mothers want their child to become a beauty queen they should wait for them to grow up and decide for them selves to whether they like to join the pageant or not.
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i agree. I was watching this show and a little girl was getting a spray tan and she started to cry and said it hurt and her mom was like 'shh it hurts to be beutifull!'
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That's glitz pageants not all child beauty pageants. I don't entirely agree with glitz pageants but the show Toddler and Tiaras has shown a different side to me that wasn't there (some of the mothers anyway! lol).
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lol their moms are doing what they wanted to be when they were younger, and its kinda sorta really really creepy.
I think that those should be illegal. But if someone has their idea of fun they can knock themselves out. Its still sick and wrong and ew they wear more makeup then some of my co workers (who are dancers)
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I did peauty pageants as a kid. Don't say it's horrible because it isn't. I liked it. If you don't like it you could easily get out of it by messing up on purpose. No parent will buy another outfit for thousands of dollars knowing their child WANTS no chance at winning.
I don't think I could ever do it to my child though. It is just because of the stress, etc. If they specifically asked, then yes. I have no problem with it. So what? They put on makeup, extentions, etc. You only have one life, and I ain't wasting mine. =]
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My neighbor loves TLC and I've watched Toddlers and Tiaras with her a couple of times. I am endlessly disturbed by those mini-women flirting with strangers on a stage. I don't know where is the charm on giving fake tans, fake hair and dressing kids on loads of sequence to be judged on their appearance. It's not funny, cute or entretaining, it's just weird and not very healthy. It all looks like a social experiment. It also makes me wonder what those kids are going to be like when they grow up. Their parents (the ones I've seen on TV) aren't the best spoken or educated people in the world. They can hardly speak in complete sentences and this is comming from total white trash tailer park kid. And the kids are putting all their energy on being flirty and learning how to walk like they have some sort of spine defect. When are they going to get real personalities and see the world outside of the vanity fair? Are they going to be plastic bratty barbies forever? If so, how many Miss Teen USA " I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so such as and the Iraq such as" are we going to have in 20 years? Can't you wait 15 years to see a girl dressed like a spectacle and making a fool of herself in front of others? It's not like it'll take her that long to learn that sexuality is a tool.
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I don't like Beauty pageants.
but I like pageants in general.
There is a difference between the two.
The difference is one: Like the one you described. A pedophile's dream of young girls prancing around as if they are young adult entertainers.
The difference of the other: Focus's on scholorship-academic achievement, interest and personal self. The appearance of body (portion/weight/height is not looked at) and the talent is very strict on dress and what is allowed (If they want to dance. Great. But not a dance that looked like they learned at a club or strip club type thing. And yes, I have been a judge at a peageant where a parent felt her child was okay when she did a sexy strip number!! ick!!!).
There is no fake anything. No tans, no hair/make up (most is chap or lip gloss) and they are not formal on evening gowns (which is as much if not more expensive than adults!).
So, if anyone is to enter their child into a pageant. That parent has to be very aware of what that individual pageant's rules and limits are.
If they are dressed up like a doll and required to have a bathingsuit (as that is a form of judgment….saying a child can not have meat on them or saying a child is porportioned wrong to be judged to another child), then the pageant is a no for me!
I want my child to grow up thinking she is beautiful the way she is. She doesn't have to put all that cake on her face and wear skimy shiney expensive outfits.
i want her to be herself and strive for success. I don't think beauty pageants are striving for success. I think they are failing them for success.
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Proud wife of an US Marine
Little children don't need to be exploited like that. They need to be CHILDREN, not dolls in a competition for beauty. No child deserves to go through that. It's disgusted.
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I think that they are disgusting, for the most part.
And when the parents force them to do it, oh my gosh, it's horrible. Little girls do not need to be spray tanned or use crest whitestrips at that age.
I mean, if a little girl just wants it to do it for fun it's ok, but forcing them to do it for money?
ugh!
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I agree! I was watching that one toddlers in tiaras show, they looked like freakin Barbie dolls! Fake all over! These pageants don’t judge the beauty of the child. They judge the beauty of the dress that child is wearing, and the beauty of some makeup artists. Some of the kids look like little hookers. I can't see how a parent could put their child out there and basically 'sexualise' them and not worry about the perverted thoughts that some dirty man is thinking about them – or what he's doing with those thoughts. It is really disgusting. I would NEVER put my child in a beauty pageant. It shows children how to grow up too fast. Now days, they do everything: the shaving, fake eyelashes, manicures, plucking, make up, spray tan, fake teeth. Its ridiculous. It’s not healthy to think this is what you have to do to be pretty. These parents are teaching them that beauty is important. Little girls already are messed up enough in the self esteem department, but to introduce them to the world of "pleasing" as a life style from childhood? Awful. I plan to teach my kids values. . .they’re also a waste of time and money. Not to mention a lot of the kids are brats. Sickos decking out their children to get off on the display. . .i was in a pageant when I was around 4ish, I didn’t like it much, but there was more to it then beauty. It was about education and what we wanted to do/be in the future.. . .and my mom didn’t doll me up with make up or anything. Just a dress and my ballet outfit. and also, if they keep wearing all that make up. they will age very fast.
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They're sad. Really sad
I completly agree with you. Did you ever see that show, "Toddlers in Tiaras" on TLC? I almost puked.
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parents reliving their own pathetic lives.
if u notice the moms are fat and ugly
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R u sure the second one isn't a doll? I Hate the glam pagents! I don't really have anything againest the natrual where they have no make-up just ALL natrual (i think it teaches kids they are beautiful natrually)
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Should be banned, no one under 18 has any business doing any of the stuff you mentioned.
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