K-Says...Children's Beauty Pageants

Children's Beauty Pageants
By: KK

This article has been a long time coming. I am overwhelmingly disturbed by children's beauty pageants. What a fantastic way to make your little girl feel beautiful. Dress her up like a street walker and display her to the general public.

I would love to blame the father's, but since I never see them involved in this disgusting child exploitation, one can only assume that the demented mother has him handcuffed in a closet so that he can't interfere with her dastardly evil ways. Although, this is a fantastic forum for pedophiles to entertain themselves with. But according to the arrogant, controlling mothers nothing like that would ever happen to my little girl. News flash honey, your daughter will be the first one to have her head cut from her 8x10 glossy and pasted onto the photo of an 18 year old and filtered through the internet and every other underground child pornography rings.

The hair and make-up on these girls would make even the brassiest transvestite blush. Surprisingly the mother's don't put their own make-up on with a putty knife and their hair doesn't house a birds nest. So why do that to your daughter? It's hard to imagine that a two year old actually enjoys sitting through hours of hair rollers, teasing, spraying and soaking their faces in a vat of make-up and false eye lashes. It would take a rake to comb out all of that hair spray and a heavy duty mop to remove the war paint.

The outfits are not only atrocious and outdated, but not even the sleaziest harlot would wear such inappropriate get up's. Ruffles belong on a cake, glitter belongs on Christmas ornaments, belly shirts, low cut v-necks and booty shorts belong on strippers. It's nauseating to see toddlers and elementary school age girls shaking their ass for an audience full of mother's trying to turn their little girls out on the street. These little girls cannot sing, dance or entertain in any way what-so-ever. Nor should they be forced to. It's complete bullshit when the mothers claim that their daughters actually want to do this. The girls are too young to decide what the hell they want and they wouldn't even know what a beauty pageant was unless the mother introduced it to them. They only know what they are taught. These girls should be skipping rope, playing with their friends and swinging from trees. Beauty pageants are
not for children and it is detrimental to their emotional stability as well as their maturity.

This is not an appropriate "hobby" for girls. These unstable mothers are sending the wrong message to their daughters. These mothers are trying to fulfill their own unattained dreams of not being beautiful, accepted and below average, by exploiting there daughters. It's criminal.

These brainless mothers have taught innocent little girls that being beautiful is the most important thing in life and the only way to feel beautiful is to wear a tiara to bed every night. Why not teach them that they are beautiful on the inside, without all of the make-up, hair and garish outfits. Teach them that they don't have to be on a stage, performing like a trained animal to prove to a room full of strangers that my idiot mother taught me that this is the definition of beauty.

Reader's Respond

01.29.03

dear k,
im from the uk but found your website very insightful, ive never found
a woman who's spoken so strongly about such toutchy subjects, most people
don't have the guts to do what you do.
You do it well.
I particularly like the artical on childrens pageants, what a crock of
shit the whole things rediculase, the mothers dress them up like barbie
dolls and think its ok, they get them trained like puppy dogs to one thing
"i like doing pageants they give me confidense and self esteem" there 2
for christ sake how the hell would they know what that means.
Anyway ive babbled enough, hope you regain a full recovery and keep doing
what you do best

TAKING THE PISS OUT OF ASSHOLES THAT DON'T LIKE TO HEAR THE TRUTH!!!!!
SCREW EM!

1. 04.30.03

You have got to be kidding me!! You need to get your facts straight before you categorize all mother's into one group. I have a nineteen month old daughter who has been in a couple of pageants already. She doesn't have a clue of the meaning of a pageant but she has a wonderful time at her age. She loves to be around so many children because she gets to play with them
and meet new people every time. The pageants in which I have signed her up for do not require the child to dress up in gowns and wear tons of makeup. All they as is for the child to
dress comfortable in play clothes and smile. What is so wrong with that. I would never plaster my toddler with make-up. Not now not even when she is eighteen years old. I am signing her up for these events so that she could be exposed to being around different people aside from her family. These events have allowed her to be less shy and friendlier with other children. So its not all about the makeup and dresses. To me, its all about allowing her to be more self confident in front of others.
Get your facts straight.
-Ruth A.

Reader Response to the above letter-Dear Ruth

At 19 months old, she has absolutely no ability to enjoy these pageants, nor remember them as fond memories. As it happens, children at this age do not socialize, they merely play "along side" other children. You aren't teaching her to meet new people as it happens, you are teaching her to perform and smile on demand. How many "new" people does she need to meet anyway? Actually, the pageant "circuit" are usually the same people over and over again. YOU get your facts straight. You are prancing a mere baby around so you can be told that she is beautiful. So...do you have a boy? Doesn't HE need the same sort of social stimulation? Or is it all about showing off the girl? You aren't teaching her to be self confident in front of others, you are teaching about vanity, and feeling inferior to others, not for their intelligence, drive and perseverance, but for how they look, walk, and strut in the bathing suit. The baby who bats her eye lashes the cutest gets the trophy. Great lesson for a child not even two. How about better parenting skills and instead of training your child like an animal act at Sea World, how about preschool where she gets real social skills and possibly academics? Go figure?? A brain!! Obviously the only thing you care about is that she can read the word "winner"!
Read the other k-says article on beauty pageants......I hope you know a good therapist, with parenting skills like yours, she will need one.