Child Beauty Pageants

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Yep.

 

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Yes, I noticed (Q)'s quotes given by parents who postulated to the media on the virtues and upright distinctions their daughters would gain by entering such beauty contests: interviews given after the fact, of course.

A parent with some virtue, and encouraging her daughter to maintain a somewhat upright distinction. But these things never get applauded much now-a-days, do they? —unless it serves to mask and embellish a base nature.

 

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Our visceral response comes from a parent's need to protect children. We all kno that little girls love dressing up and no one is saying it's wrong,

Consider, would you let your five-year old daughter be dressed and made up to look like an adult, following which she would walk sexily in public with goodness knows how nmany perverts watching and taking photos or making videos of her ? Forget the parents' motivation; these kids are being robbed of their youth.

 

Of course not. And I agree. I was just trying to home in on why this is any different than my kids playing dress up. Clearly it's in the forced nature of it. Parents forcing their children into a professional, paid modelling atmosphere. And it begs the question: Who are the consumers of this form of "entertainment" anyway? What does anyone get out of seeing kids made up to look like, as one poster put it, little "whores"? I don't get it.

 

Are all the children forced? I see way too many assumptions here.

 

So what if they're not?

 

Again, is this the norm? Most media I see in the west is highly selective, so I rarely trust them. Has anyone actually ever been to one of these pageants?

 

and? besides israel is closer to the east-our sports teams always play in europe for example.

 

and the media in the east isnt biased at all.

 

Sam only consults sources with the Right Hand of the God of Truth[sup]TM[/sup] seal of approval.

 

Nope, I'm merely aware of the current trend in science to present only those facts that fit the hypothesis.

 

What's that got to do with media reporting?

 

Its clearly one sided?

 

youre funny.

 

Whos or which side? What's the agenda?

 

Just realistic

Lets look at an objective study (the one that (Q) posted)

So clearly money is not the main factor.

That does not sound like sexualisation.

Neither does this.

Nope not this either.

Now that is interesting.

So what is it?

 

that explains why your sources are always objective.

 

That's a good scientist.

So, what does this study tell us? It tells us what parents, who like to put their kids in pageants, think about pageants. How revealing.

I wonder what a broad sampling of the kids opinions might be?