What do you think of Child Beauty Pageants?
I have been watching programmes on YouTube that are all about American Beauty pageants that involve children -
Living Dolls –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwttqXiCE-I
Sasha Bennington – Beauty Queen at 11 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFtyYvhiuSQ&feature=related
Baby Beauty Queens –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSLvniGba0Q
Little Beauties –
And many others…
They are all interesting and I recommend watching them but I wondered what were your views on them….
Are the expensive dresses really necessary?
What do you think…???
I have just noticed that Sasha Bennington’s programme and Baby Beauty Queen’s uses the same competition…You can see Sasha at 2:37 on part 6. =D
I think it’s disgusting. Children shouldn’t be doing this. It teaches them all the wrong values; how to hate their competitors; how to care only about their outer appearance.
Since when were children unhappy playing outside in the dirt and being creative, making up games with their childhood friends? If they weren’t taught differently from that, they’d be just fine. And it makes them more well-rounded when they grow up.
Sometimes when they’re young “beauty queens” they have actual fake dentures put in, they wear corsets and stuff to make them have a figure, and they’re smothered with makeup.
Plus their mothers are real battle axes. It’s not like they influence their daughters well. All they want them is to have the “perfect” dance routines and moves. In that one video, the girl was doing a perfectly natural childish dance sort of thing, and the mother was completely disapproving. Just let the kids be!
Some parents might argue “it’s their choice. they want it.” That’s when BEING a parent comes in and giving your child what’s really best. Maybe if they were let alone now, they could really grow as a person into who they are rather than what their moms (and or dads) want them to be. If they grow up knowing who they really are and not just what they’ve taught to be then maybe they could enter into a real beauty pageant and know how to stay true to themselves.
It’s gross, anyway, to send the kids a message that one is better or prettier than the other. ALL children are beautiful and innocent but this sort of thing ruins them. Besides. What is there to brag about if the kid’s won the contest? Half of what they appear as on stage is fake. Bleached hair, fake teeth, “form-fitting” dresses, makeup. If you took all that away and put the child in normal clothes I highly doubt they’d stand out to anyone.
I think it’s outrageous.
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