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Anyone else heard about this controversal new series on TLC? It's about girls who compete in child beauty pageants. Personally, I love this series. One of my main interests is pageants and I'd love to have a daughter sometime in the future and put her in them.

However, there are so many people out there who abhor this series. There's actually a Facebook group started by an 18-year-old Canadian to ban this show. Hopefully nothing will happen. TLC is continuing airring new episodes.

If you've seen the show, what do you think? Like I said, I love it. So if you don't, be nice.

So far, I think the show itself remains objectionable on the subject. Some of the people there, are just there to have fun and whatnot, but then there are the girls in the pageant that don't want to be there, and their mothers force them to do it, and some of the girls that do it don't have any real ambition.
What is worse is the woman who runs the pageant that claims that the pageant helps prepare girls for real life, because in real life woman are only valued by how they look.
I refuse to have that ideal perpetuated in my life.
Whenever that show comes on now, I change the channel because it pisses me off so much.

It is the truth that it does happen hopefully they will leave the beauty pagent scene sooner than later. One of my friends who is an ex-model says that EVERY pagent she went to, the people who survive the first cut are the people who "please" the judges the most. (hopefully the more mature users can read between the lines.) I am hoping it is not the same case with the little ones.

one thing i liked with the 2008 pagent was that there was one vote in slot, and the most unlikely person got it, Ms. Utah. She was part of the military had a short hair cut, she even wore a one peice suit to the swimwear part. she did not survive the next cut though. I am feeling that there is obvious bias at the upper levels.

It is the truth that it does happen hopefully they will leave the beauty pagent scene sooner than later. One of my friends who is an ex-model says that EVERY pagent she went to, the people who survive the first cut are the people who "please" the judges the most. (hopefully the more mature users can read between the lines.) I am hoping it is not the same case with the little ones.

one thing i liked with the 2008 pagent was that there was one vote in slot, and the most unlikely person got it, Ms. Utah. She was part of the military had a short hair cut, she even wore a one peice suit to the swimwear part. she did not survive the next cut though. I am feeling that there is obvious bias at the upper levels.

When it comes to the little kids pageants, the judges tend to lean more toward the kids who are having a lot of fun on stage and truly enjoying themselves (They said it in a documentary.). So you could actually mess up on something like interview and still win Ultimate Grand Supreme (the top prize) if you show those qualities.

I was really happy that Miss Indiana won the most recent Miss America. I had seen her on a talk show before and she seemed like a really nice person. Plus no one from Indiana had ever won before, so that was a nice change. Miss Georgia came in second and that's exactly how I thought it would end up to begin with! (I should've bet! I would've made some money! lol)

It makes me sick personally. These poor little girls have so much spray and makeup and wigs etc on them. Most of the girls dotn even like pageants!

My only hope is that they've entered such pageants because they want to, not because their parents forced them into it.

But basically, I abhor child beauty pageants because the kids look so....fake. If you've seen "Little Miss Sunshine", you know what I mean. To me, Olive was the most *realistic* competitor, compared to all those...DOLLS! So what if she was a little chunky, she was beautiful in my eyes. If you ask me, that whole pageant STANK of phoniness.

Just my 2 cents, heh.

Usagi1992

Child pageants creep me out on so many levels. If my child ends up doing pageants, it will be in spite of me, not because of me. Parents that need to live out their dreams through their children are sick.

*huggles* You took the words right out of my mouth!

Geez, haven't you people ever heard the phrase "If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all"? I said in the first post to be polite because I like this show! There's a huge difference between constructive critism and being flat out rude.

Alright, I apologize. Sometimes I have a tendency to say what's in my heart before my brain stops me, heh. If you like them, then great. I just happen to be someone who doesn't find that my cup of tea.

I've seen one episode of that show. Sassy little things.

kiddie pageants and Miss World type pageants make me sick to the f^#king core!
and why can't there be all male pageants, huh?! how sexist!

I concur. Paegent's are...sickening.

We essentially force our children to embody sexualism to a degree that in any other situation, would make any normal parent sick.

Not only that, but they are transferring their own wasted dreams and neglected youth onto their child.

God bless the Barbie Syndrome.

More brainless bimbo's for the White House interns, yay!

/sarcasm

nice!

I've seen photographs of those pageant kids on somethingawul, those creepy grimaces, pantemime dame makeup, slu*ty clothes, blank eyes....

If the kids enjoy it then great, but the ones that don't you can always tell by the fake smiles, it shows in the eyes because they always look sad or blank.
And some of those stage shows are creepy, I saw one on youtube where this man was singing a love song while walking around the line of little girls like he's singing to THEM.