toldailytopic: Toddlers & Tiaras: what do you think about child beauty pageants?
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I've always been opposed to child beauty pageants because children do not need to be exposed to such vanities.
To boot, they are so unnatural. The way they dress up those little girls in skimpy outfits and makeup., it's preposterous.
I think this just represents a larger problem in our culture in regards to beauty. It isn't unusual for a woman to be disgusted at these types of things but then again I am sure that those same woman wear make-up. Why?
It seems that the only reason why woman wear make-up is because they have grown to believe that they aren't pretty enough if they don't. They have believed that they must paint their face as if it were a canvas so that they can then feel good about the way they look and themselves.
When a woman wears make-up she is telling her little kids "Mommy isn't pretty enough...". The little girls then learns that she too must not be pretty enough and the little boy learns to desire the fake beauty rather than the real beauty.
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December 22nd, 2011, 01:59 PM
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I think this just represents a larger problem in our culture in regards to beauty. It isn't unusual for a woman to be disgusted at these types of things but then again I am sure that those same woman wear make-up. Why?
There is a HUGE difference between putting a mask on a little girl, fake teeth, hair pieces, dressing her up in revealing clothing and parading her around on stage while she wiggles and gives the judges googly eyes...and a woman putting on some powder and blush for church.
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When a woman wears make-up she is telling her little kids "Mommy isn't pretty enough...". The little girls then learns that she too must not be pretty enough and the little boy learns to desire the fake beauty rather than the real beauty.
I can't say I entirely disagree.
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December 22nd, 2011, 02:01 PM
makes me cringe basically teaching an impressionable child that it's not about who you are but about who you can fool the world into believing you are.
it reeks of dishonesty at it's very core
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December 22nd, 2011, 02:01 PM
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I've always been opposed to child beauty pageants because children do not need to be exposed to such vanities.
To boot, they are so unnatural. The way they dress up those little girls in skimpy outfits and makeup., it's preposterous.
and bathing suits, don't forget the bathing suits. there shouldn't be anything weird about a little girl in a bathing suit but they make it weird by putting them on display the way they do. it's gross.
I believe that the Universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy,
and they are all in communication with each other, therefore parts of one organic whole.
This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it and to think of it as divine
- Robinson Jeffers
Okay, I don't think they should be beaten but I do think they are disgusting. They exploit these children for some sort inner personal gain. They teach these little girls that being pretty makes you a "winner". It's vile.
I'd consider anything that exploits a child, prematurely ages them, and forces kids to serve as vicarious avatars for their parents to be semi-abusive.
It is rare but, we are absolutely in agreement here.
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Then again, we don't seem to have a huge issue with children participating in sports whether they like it or not. Less of an ick factor, obviously.
I agree with you here too Granite, I do not force my boys to participate in any sports, my oldest has took a shine to golf & tennis and I support him in that but, if he decides he is no longer interested I'm O.K. with that. Wow, agreement twice in one post...and one day too.
I just think they are lucky I don't enter my girl, cause it would be a smack....down....
Anyway, why not just have dogs then, and show them? And what keeps these people from trying to have their kids registered as some kind of purebreed? Is it not more similar than not?
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December 22nd, 2011, 02:54 PM
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It seems that the only reason why woman wear make-up is because they have grown to believe that they aren't pretty enough if they don't. They have believed that they must paint their face as if it were a canvas so that they can then feel good about the way they look and themselves.
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December 22nd, 2011, 02:58 PM
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I just think they are lucky I don't enter my girl, cause it would be a smack....down....
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December 22nd, 2011, 03:00 PM
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But why does a woman want to put on some powder and blush before church?
It is rare but, we are absolutely in agreement here.
I agree with you here too Granite, I do not force my boys to participate in any sports, my oldest has took a shine to golf & tennis and I support him in that but, if he decides he is no longer interested I'm O.K. with that. Wow, agreement twice in one post...and one day too.
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