I am SO Disturbed.

[AzureN1ght]

I was flipping through channels 15 minutes ago and came across VH1...there is a little girl pageant on it. I have to say, it is one of THE most disturbing things I've ever seen...

The pressure from parents, heavy make-up/hair/emphasis on appearance...it's just sick. And the bathing suit competitions? Even MORE disturbing.

Little girls being made up and made out to be like badly dressed/made up grown women and in two-piece bathing suits?? It's like pedophile paradise...I'm just... *shudder*

[xdeus]

Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? Pretty much sums it up...

[AzureN1ght]

Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? Pretty much sums it up...

I haven't--but I should. I've heard nothing but good things about it.

[lillyorchid]

UGH yeah I've seen them. I don't know why parents do that to their kids, it's horrible!

[slartibartfast]

I was flipping through channels 15 minutes ago and came across VH1...there is a little girl pageant on it. I have to say, it is one of THE most disturbing things I've ever seen...

The pressure from parents, heavy make-up/hair/emphasis on appearance...it's just sick. And the bathing suit competitions? Even MORE disturbing.

Little girls being made up and made out to be like badly dressed/made up grown women and in two-piece bathing suits?? It's like pedophile paradise...I'm just... *shudder*

"Living Dolls", the documentary? I saw it on HBO a while back I think....it was horrible.

Edit: Forgot to add the best part...there was a little boy on there, and his mother said, with total sincerity "We just discovered that he has a growth hormone deficiency and we had to choose between getting him the treatment or paying for more pageants, and he told me that he'd rather do pageants". Because of course a six year old has the capacity to make that decision...

[AzureN1ght]

"Living Dolls", the documentary? I saw it on HBO a while back I think....it was horrible.

Edit: Forgot to add the best part...there was a little boy on there, and his mother said, with total sincerity "We just discovered that he has a growth hormone deficiency and we had to choose between getting him the treatment or paying for more pageants, and he told me that he'd rather do pageants". Because of course a six year old has the capacity to make that decision...

No...this wasn't a documentary. This was more like a reality show--glorifying it. Which is maybe why I found it even MORE disturbing. And that's sick--about the little boy. I don't get what sort of mindset a parent has to be in to put her child in that situation.

[JLC]

I'm glad I didn't see what you saw, Kim. I mighta thrown something at the TV. I think all beauty pageants are absurd and ridiculous...but at least adults have the capacity to make the decision to parade themselves around like cattle at a county fair if they wish. For parents to subject their children to that....it's just obscene. What a way to completely ingrain vapid, destructive value systems.

[AzureN1ght]

I'm glad I didn't see what you saw, Kim. I mighta thrown something at the TV. I think all beauty pageants are absurd and ridiculous...but at least adults have the capacity to make the decision to parade themselves around like cattle at a county fair if they wish. For parents to subject their children to that....it's just obscene. What a way to completely ingrain vapid, destructive value systems.

Yeah...one of the judges was saying that he thought it was a POSITIVE thing to teach these little girls the "reality" of life: as in "The reality is, in the real world, you're judged by your appearance. To tell them [the girls] that isn't the case is ridiculous. It would be like wearing cut-off jeans into the boardroom." --I'm paraphrasing here, as I don't have the direct quote, but that was the jist. It's crazy.

[1Mojo]

The reality of life is not to look plastic. Alot of the parents are living their dreams using their children. In my opinion SICK... SICK...SICK

[Snakeman]

i think they're the type of parents that want their kids to be famous at an early age(like some celebrities) so they could live off the money their kids'll make instead the parents working for themselves. thats my opinion.