I just watched a TV program about a 11 year-old who enters beauty pageants.



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I've never seen beauty pageants before and I was pretty, not shocked, but a bit disgusted with it all.

This kid gets fake tans, has fake nails, hair extensions and the worse thing was it seems like her mum is living through her vicariously and seems to push her into a lot of it.

The whole thing me me and wifey feel a bit queasy. Our girls dance and go into dance competitions where they dress up nice and put on a bit of make-up but this just seems a hundred steps too far.

Just wondered what everyone elses thoughts were....

The little girl is kinda ugly, does she ever win?

Go rent Little Miss Sunshine, Doggy.

Yeh, I've seen that, great film. I'm actually gonna watch that tonight.

Holy crap I got downvoted fast.

It's absolutely disgusting, people who put their kids in s**t like this are just raising them to be shallow and materialistic. It's a selfish second chance for shallow and stupid mothers, ruining their childs innocence so that they can feel better about themselves after leading a shallow and meaningless life with nothing left to show for it because they aren't as pretty as they once were.

I laughed.

I have mad skills.

So does Doggy, I see.

Coyote ugly.


and her momma too

Hell yez! It just sounded like a really b***hy comment plus I don't like the whole "ugly" thing. The word ugly is a result of bulls**t conditioning, ugly is a state of mind, ugly makes little girls grow up anorexic, ugly is objective.

I upvoted you. It made me LOL.

Ugly is being fake as plastic, Doggy.
Her mother made her that way.

No need to be ugly about it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I would say that beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder, but considering that she's underage, that would just be wrong.

I saw the programme too - it was fairly typical BBC3 car crash fare*, but her mother came across as something of a monster.

It was pretty clear that the kid wasn't into it anywhere as near as much as the mother.

What alarmed me the most though was a comment fairly early on that went along the lines of "Something like 18 to 20 years ago, all people cared about was getting an education and jobs and stuff. Now we just care about what we look like."

That was from the kid, btw.


*Which I'm not, as such, knocking - I watched it, after all.

What got me was that she said "My dad says I'm thick" and when they asked her to describe herself in 3 words she said, "Pretty, blonde, dumb".

From what I could gather they were giving her absolutely no real self-confidence or worth.

[please clarify]
Is this the same as a train wreck?
[/please clarify]

Along those lines but not quite.

The meaning of the poetry behind that image is that when you're passing a car crash, even though you know you shouldn't, you slow down and have a look and then find you can't tear your gaze away.

They were doing quite the opposite - especially the bit in the car when she was on the way to an audition. For those who didn't see the exchange went something like:

Mother: Well you better be smiling when you step out of the car
Daughter: What have I got to smile about?
Mother: I don't f*cking care, just smile at anything that f*cking moves."
Daughter: very, very false smile

Later in same exchange the mother said something along the lines of "if you don't pass the audition you will get such a slap."

I don't get beauty pageants. For any age, really, but young girls particularly. I can think of very few examples where the contestants seem to be healthy, well rounded people.

I DO think it's mostly about the parents. They see their kid ham it up in front of the camera, and decide that means the kid wants to be in these things...But MOST kids ham it up for the camera, and it means nothing. These kids are pushed into it and convinced that they're having fun, when in truth, their innocence is being tarted up and ruined.

Just going to steer this thread off on a bit of an aside - having seen the programme itself I didn't at first click the link, but I have just now.

Good old Daily Hate, requiring a total of 6 overly sexualized photos of an eleven year old to make their point of how they disapprove of overly sexualising eleven year olds.