The Importance of Being a Kid (A Case Against Child Beauty Pagents)
Being a carefree child in the world today is quickly becoming shorter and shorter. I mean, look at the first picture (JonBenét Ramsey, the murdered beauty queen). Can you believe that she was - at most- six years old in that picture? I do not know what age she actually was in the picture because it didn't tell me. She had been entered into loads of beauty competitions like America's Royal Miss, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, Little Miss Charlevoix Michigan, Little Miss Merry Christmas, Little Miss Sunburst, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.
Is it me or is the fact that you're entering a minor into a competition that basically focuses on your beauty? To me, it borders on paedophilia. I mean, if nothing, these competitions are encouraging paedophiles to consider their tastes as normal if the girls are being made to look far older and grown up than they already are. If anyone has seen 'Little Miss Sunshine', then this point is further proven by the writers of the script made the entrant from the Hoover family, Olive, started doing a stripping routine as shown by her grandfather.
I mean, what did you do at her age, play with dolls or Lego or learn how to use hairspray and lipstick?
I remember being six years old and the biggest worry I had then was learning how to multiply by two. I remember not giving a damn about what I wore and just did all the usual things a kid does at that age, play with dirt, draw with crayons, read books, go biking, go swimming, collecting bugs, climbing trees, walking the dog and going to the park to play on the swings. I don't think it is appropriate to let kids that age worry if their hair is properly done or that their eye shadow is not the right shade of grey.
That's my opinion anyway; I'd love to hear any of your comments.
(Information about JonBenet from Wikipedia).
The hell, I agree.
Macarena, August 7th, 2007 at 11:36:59pm
thats f*cked up. when i was six i hadnt realised that i wasnt pretty, let alone care.
it makes me sick. and in kids storys where the goody is pretty and the baddy is ugly. f*cking... f*ck.
Lyddy r teh Snaily, May 25th, 2007 at 05:14:55am
It's absolutely disgusting & makes me sick that people do that.
They have no freedom & can't live a normal life.
Instead they have to be pressured into looking about 20 years older.
Skippy., May 25th, 2007 at 02:55:17am
I totally agree.
I heard a story of one woman who would always put her daughter in beauty pageants.
She had been sent countless threats through the mail. Her house had been egged. One time, she opened her front door to find a dead cat with a crown on it's head, lying on her front porch.
Her daughter, was extremely vain. She was always putting herself before others. She forced her mom to get her braces, because one of her teeth where crooked. She ended up quiting, because somebody had shot her. She didn't die, but it was enough to scare her mother into taking her out of beauty pageants.
It's awfull, really.
Steph:DonaNobisPacem, May 24th, 2007 at 07:59:43pm
I hear where you're coming from. What if the kid doesn't even wanna do the pageant and their parents make them? Either way, it's horrible. You can be entered in a beauty pageant more than once, but you only get to be a kid once and that's it. Kids shouldn't have to worry about too much when they're so young because as you grow older, you tend to have more responsibilities. When I was six, I did everything that you did and besides, I don't think beauty pageants really have much of a point.
threeam., May 24th, 2007 at 07:41:03pm
I agree. it's sick.
Love, May 24th, 2007 at 03:37:23pm