Little girls in beauty pageants

[Twilla]

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Someone in another forum started a thread about how proud he is of his granddaughter... and when you opened the thread, saw he was proud because she had won a school beauty pageant.

The thread had some good points before the subject got dragged through the mud by a certain anal retentive with too much time on his hands, but I tend to agree that being proud of a child for being better looking than the rest of the children is wrong. Bad, even. The pride isn't based on anything more than luck of the draw genetics, not on a talent the child has developed on his/her own. We're so damn superficial in this country that we tend to place more importance on appearance than in character or intelligence.

Thoughts?

[lady cop]

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i really had the impression it was more of a dance recital than a beauty pageant. and as i replied in thread, there were no JonBenet Ramsey daddy's little hooker outfits for the friendly neighborhood pedophiles to wank over. that thread truly got carried to extremes.

[Twilla]

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I could be wrong, but it appeared to be a beauty pageant, not a dance competition. In any case, parading your kid around like a prize heifer strikes me as destructive to the kid's understanding of self-worth. Granted, there wasn't any over the top prostitot make-up and dress in this instance, but the concept is basically the same.

[lady cop]

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here is OP, i may have misread that to think it was a dance competition:

She was asked to enter a pageant by her dance instructor at her elementary school. My daughter didn't want her to do it at first, because it was a $25.00 entry fee, and she has so many other things going on. Anyway, the Dance company said they would sponsor her, so my grand daughter entered the pageant..

you know, i have been telling people, including Mill, for years not to post their kids' pics online because they get chopped by child pornographers. and here Mill wouldn't put a pic in my members' photos thread because he was worried about it being chopped. he and fox both have their pics as avatars!

[Twilla]

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The dance company SPONSORED her but it says it was a pageant. Mill never says anything about her dancing either, which would have been a good defense against all the accusations flung against him and his family.

My point though is the whole idea of child beauty pageants, not just this one. I was merely using it as an example.

[Twilla]

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In fact, I was trying to leave specifics out completely, knowing how TK doesn't like this kind of stuff visible to visitors. Sorry, TK... wanna move the thread?

[Loricat]

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I hate those pagents. What these parents do to their little girls is disgusting. They totally objectify them. If a girl wants to enter pagents when she is a teenager or older that is one thing. But 5 or 6 year old? No way. These little girls wear more make up than most adult women! And they have false teeth so they have a perfect smile since most of them are losing their baby teeth. It's ridiculous.

[lady cop]

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In fact, I was trying to leave specifics out completely, knowing how TK doesn't like this kind of stuff visible to visitors. Sorry, TK... wanna move the thread?

sorry about that, i didn't see anything nasty so it seemed OK.

[Black Sun]

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I think its bullshit to enter children into beauty pageants and that's exactly what this was.

They will have plenty of time to worry about their physical appearance when they are teenagers, let kids be kids.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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The thread is fine here.

LC - Mill clearly stated he didn't want to post ANOTHER photo of himself due to what happened with the one had posted on Mock. He clearly said the one he's got for his avatar is plenty. I don't see that as a blatant refusal under the guise of wanting privacy.

I think beauty pageants are terrible for little girls. Twilla is right - we need to put more emphasis on teaching our children to be happy with themselves and how they look and not feel humiliated or less of a person if they don't meet some plastic standard set by the media, hollywood and the fashion industry. Kids get tormented by each other enough, they don't need help from adults.