This is so wrong!

[sgtiger]

I've always been against them. I don't think it's right to teach children to focus on their looks and to teach them that they have to please people. I watched part of a show once to see if maybe I'm missing something and judging those parents too harshly without really knowing anything about them or their lives. I couldn't watch the whole episode because it made me feel sick. It was worse than anything I had imagined. I was fuming at the parents and the child pageant industry and I was saddened that those children have to go through that. They are having so much taken away from them.

[channlluv]

"I Was a Toddler Beauty Queen - A Memoir in Three Acts" by me. Not really. It's a book idea I just had in reading this thread.

Hmmm. Plot lines are swimming in my head.

Roxy

[Jolt]

Ugh...that show makes me want to hurl! I'm not a fan of pageants in general because they tend to encourage girls/women to focus on the wrong things, but at least in the case of teens/adult women they themselves are making the choice to compete in that environment and have the right to do so. With these little girls their parents are pushing them into it and it's just disgusting, not to mention the fact that at such a young age they are being taught to put an unhealthy emphasis on appearance.

[marni]

now if they caught someone doing that to a dog or a cat, they would be tried for animal cruelty- Where is the DSS when they are really needed?
disgusting- reality shows have gone way way too far.

As for the mothers comment about holding her down and ripping them off. I know, let's take mom, wax her in the critical parts and the face and then hold her down and rip them off. Let her know what it feels like.

[Grog]

I am so disgusted.