What on earth was the American TV industry thinking when they decided to show Toddlers and Tiaras? This show is wrong in every way possible. Little children selling sex? What the hell? This show angers me in so many ways as a woman, as a future psychologist, as a potential mother. As a woman it angers me to see people judging 0-2 year old's on their looks. One girl competed in the 10-12 year old's and was told that next age group she has to lose weight.
As a psychology major, it is upsetting because most of these children are being forced to do this by their mothers. Many of the children do not even realize it, not even the mothers realize it most of the time. They have lost their "beauty" at least according to the media. Now the mothers feel like they have to make sure that their daughters do not have to "suffer" the same fate.
As a potential mother it is upsetting because, I might have a daughter and she will feel like she has to compete with girls that are pushed by their mothers to look like that.
The entire show is simply messed up, and again the only ones to benefit are men. The earlier women start primping, the less time they spend on school, the less time they spend in school, the less time they will have to acquire book smart. Everybody knows that knowledge is power.
This show is amazingly entertaining. I soley watch the show to see those CRAZY parents! I feel awful for the little girls who cry and do not obviously want to be where they are. The mother's of these children are obsessed and are living their life and dreams through their child, and honestly it is very sad! I would hate to meet one of these children when they are older, and in one episode we did just that. We met the children who competed in these pagents when they were young and both of the girls we meet and followed had quit the scene and neither of them had good relationships with their moms. Both of the girls resented their mom's for forcing them to do something they did not want to do.
ReplyDeleteThis show seriously needs to be taken off the air. It is very sick and these children grow up in a very horrid environment.
I also have seen this show, and I agree that it is just wrong. It is obvious that it is the mothers’ beauty pageant dream and not their daughter’s. I mean, these girls are very young, so they of course didn’t tell their moms that it was something that they wanted to do. Their moms simply made their daughters do it possibly because they themselves wish that they could enter the pageant. If fact, in one of the episodes, some moms did enter the pageant. It was a frightening sight! I would never put my daughter into a pageant, especially without her expressing any interest. I don’t think that all pageant are bad. I really enjoy watching the Miss America Pageant. It is just when you put a toddler in makeup, false teeth, and fake hair that I have a problem with it. Young girls should never be made up to look like women.
ReplyDeleteThis infuriates me...these children are so young and already being taught that beauty is what matters. Makeup...clothes..practice...practice...people obviously do not care about what this does do young girls self-image...i think the mothers do it mainly because they never could or want to live their childhood through their daughter's....honeslty it disgusts me...
ReplyDeleteThis is another terrible way how young girls are being brought up. I think it is just absolutely horrible that Mothers actually put there 5 year old daughters in pageant shows. It teaches them right from the start that beauty can take you far in life. Encouraging your child to do something like that is just outrageous and could possibly lead to negative effects. Children shouldn’t be dressed in revealing swimsuits and dresses like we see in Vegas.
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