Pageants for children? Let's not mince words, they are pageants for little girls. The little girls are taught young how to objectify themselves, put their physical selves on display for judgment by others and worst of all, learn to care about that. And yes, they feel really bad when they lose and someone else wins - not because they're smarter or did better on a test, but because their appearance was better and they performed better. Society sure does like women who do tricks. I don't see many pageants for men or little boys. >:( >:( >:(
Little girl pageants are abominations and should be looked on with the contempt they deserve for what they teach little girls.
Have you seen one, Del? They teach the girls to go out and shake like hookers and take articles of clothing off...(practicing for the 'pole' I am assuming) The mothers say it is for the girls..."They love it!!" then you see the girls crying and the mothers screaming at them...
I like going to gay strip clubs, which is basically beauty pageants for hot young men. The winner is the one who gets the most money stuffed down his G-string. ;D
When I was about 15 my sister and I went to a teen fashion show at a nearby shopping mall right before the new school year was to start. I was struck by the beauty of one of the young men in the show, and I watched him closely. Later I saw this same boy in a store, and I couldn't keep my eyes off of him. As luck would have it, he showed up at my school that fall, and he remembered me looking at him, and he spread word all over school that I was a fag.
What did I do wrong? He put himself on display, and I found him to be attractive, so I looked at him. :-\
Pageants for children? Let's not mince words, they are pageants for little girls.
Have you seen one, Del? They teach the girls to go out and shake like hookers and take articles of clothing off...(practicing for the 'pole' I am assuming) The mothers say it is for the girls..."They love it!!" then you see the girls crying and the mothers screaming at them...
Pageants for little girls are more common for sure but there are those for little boys as well.
[source = http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/06.08/beauty.html]
From her researcher’s view, Levey got a good idea of why people do and don’t participate [in child pageants]. When some of the children lost baby teeth that had not been replaced by pageant time, their parents fit them with false teeth. When a girl’s hair was too short to curl like Barbie’s, fake additions were fitted. "Things like this showed me that these are not just contests to judge natural beauty," she comments.
It’s not cheap to show off your child’s beauty. Parents typically spend between $100-$200 on pageant clothing, although some pay as much as $1,000 for a gown. Pageant fees cost another $100-$200 per contest, and the 41 mothers who Levey interviewed competed in an average of five pageants during the past year. In addition, those with higher incomes may hire someone to do the child’s hair, or a pageant coach to give their child an extra advantage. "You see this a lot among people on the lower-income and education scales," Levey comments. "They want their kids to learn skills that are needed to move up the social scale."
Gaining poise and confidence is cited most often by parents as the reason for putting their child into these contests. "She learns skills such as going out in a crowd, not to be shy, and to be herself while people are watching and focusing on her," one mother noted.
One mother put it this way: "I want my child to be aware that there’s always going to be somebody better than her. It’s a hard thing to learn – it was for me – and I want her to start early."
I say it's just entertainment. I remember watching them as a kid. I have not watched them in years.
The Miss California pageant used to be held in my home town and I remember there were active protests at the Civic Auditorium when the pageant was going on.
I'm not pretty and have never got anything based on my looks. I say if someone can, more power to them. I don't envy beauty. Not that that all these persons are what I would consider beautiful. I actually feel sorry for some who find the whole of their being based on what they look like.