How to Morph Little Girls into Brainless Bimbos

Little girls’ “glitz” beauty pageants
warp kids’ self esteem

“Glitzy” beauty pageants devastate and warp little girls’ perception of themselves.

There are two types of child beauty pageants: “natural” and “glitz”. The “natural” pageants are bad enough. TLC’s “glitz” child pageant show: Toddlers & Tiaras is a hit. (Think about this: the show appears on The Learning Channel). T&T features overly controlling parents forcing little girls to wear makeup, false eyelashes, spray tans, fake hair, “glitzy” and revealing outfits that make the kids look like adult entertainers in a seedy strip club.

I’m David. This is Tanya Perez. Ava’s our daughter. I’m a coach, make-up artist, costume designer, and her biggest cheerleader. Pageants were always of interest to me. I’m the super dad of pageants. TA-DAH-DAH!!!… Her road to success was already paved when she entered this world.

T&T is the latest abomination of extreme “glitz” girl beauty pageants. Little girls parade across stage in glittery costumes, and fake teeth (“flippers”— $150). Six and 7-year-old girls wear makeup and fake eyelashes. Their moms tease, curl, and put hairpieces on their little girls. They look like mini-me versions of 25-year-old women.

Many pageant parents think they are building their children’s self esteem or grooming their child to be confident and talented. No. These parents do a grave injustice by forcing their little girls to focus solely on external beauty instead of intellectual development. They rob children as young as two of their childhood.

Child beauty pageants are horrifying and demeaning.

These parents waste thousands of dollars on these pageants and do them irreparable harm which borders on abuse. Little girls learn that success in life comes from beauty, personality, and costumes. As these little girls become women chances are they will feel inadequate if they don’t adhere to a manufactured, and imaginary, ideal of beauty.

Australian psychiatrist, Dr Phillip Brock, called little girl beauty pageants a “crazy manipulation … distorting their perception of themselves… We don’t know which of these kids will be vulnerable to problems with self-belief and self-esteem in the long term.

Little children do not have the wherewithal to choose to compete, particularly the 9-month to 2-year-old competitors. Around the world, these “glitz” child pageants are seen as an odd American aberration.

According to Dorothy Poteat, director of Southern Elite Pageants in Chapel Hill, NC, the minimum amount of money parents spend is approximately 400 to $500 per “glitz” pageant. The midrange is $1,500, but she said parents can spend $3,500 or more in preparations for one day.

Poteat states:

”Rhinestones, professional hair and makeup, spray tans, fake nails … it adds up fast. The entry fee alone varies from $50 to $500, depending on the level of the pageant.” The contests also charge for competing in separate categories, such as talent and casual wear, each an additional $20 to $30. Factor in the outfits (as many as six per pageant), promotional photographs, coaching (typically $50 per hour, at least once a week), dance, voice lessons and travel expenses, and it’s not hard to see how a single contest can easily blow out an average family’s budget.

Given the increasingly spiraling costs of food and housing, why don’t parents save for their little girls’ college education? The inherent message is that little girls should be pretty, not smart or talented. A woman who enters her children into “natural” competitions stated that a local woman of modest means spent $2,600 on her daughter’s dress. I have no idea where that money is coming from! With “glitz”, you have to have four jobs to pay for it all!

Laura Rose competed in countless beauty pageants into her teens. She said the financial sacrifice to her family was not worth the experience.

”My mom was a single mother and did not have a lot of money to spend,” says Rose. In the beginning, her mom would make the costumes because she couldn’t afford to buy them, but eventually she took to borrowing money from relatives to pay for it all. “There were many nights where I had nothing to eat but Pepperidge Farms gingerbread cookies because all of the money went towards the pageants,” says Rose. “To this day, she sends those cookies to me because she thinks I like them, but they just generate bad memories.”

Another new reality show, Dance Moms on Lifetime is also brutal. A demanding dance instructor and the girls’ moms whip the kids into dance perfection as they prepare daughters for

Former Australian child star Sarah Monahan, who now lives in Texas—the beauty pageant’s heartland—said modern day pageants were creepy and made little girls look like Playboy bunnies Monahan has become a child advocate after claiming she was sexually assaulted while working on the television show, Hey Dad! starting when she was six years old

We don’t need to sexualize our kids…or desensitize society to that either…We don’t need to tempt pedophiles by offering them little girls dressed up as big girls.

T&T may be a pedophile’s dream come true. Where else do you get to watch little girls prance around in very inviting clothes and wear hair and make-up that make them look sexy? These pageants are abomination, but to broadcast them so every pedophile in the world can watch is abhorrent. This show brings innocent little girls, dressed in sexy and revealing clothes, into the living rooms of these perverts.

Parents that pressure their little girls into these pageants are live vicariously through their little girls and cause them irreparable harm. There is no other plausible explanation.

What do you think of little girls’ “glitzy” beauty pageants? Are they good for a girl’s self esteem? Please tell Mad Mike’s America what you think.

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