Toddler beauty pageants - when are we going to put an end to these sick exhibitions?

[theHandpuppet]

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I was scanning some news from the Belfast Telegraph when I read that a scheduled toddler beauty pageant was being cancelled. The article was accompanied by this pic:



When are we going to put an end to this kind of sick exploitation of little girls? Do we really need to sexualize even female toddlers? What are these parents thinking?

[grilled onions]

1. Kids Should Be Kids

As if the female sect doesn't have enough to deal with why give perv's even more ideas? Girls--or should I say tots will grow up with all the wrong ideas. They should be playing in the yard,chasing squirrels-not learning how to wink and flirt at the judges. They should be scampering and not wiggling their butts on a catwalk. Once their age renders them out of the kiddie beauty scene they must adjust to the real world. Somehow I think depression could set it or it will give them even more problems as they continue with their winking and flirting with a more adult crowd only instead of crowns they end up with a bad reputation or worse.
What are those parents thinking? Do they want their girls to be targets or get mixed up ideas of what a little girl should be like? It's a form of child abuse of which the parents never get arrested.

[Chemisse]

2. It's disgusting that parents allow the sexualizing of their babies.

And don't even pretend it is something else. There could be a beauty contest among toddlers with them looking as they do every day. They are delightfully cute. There is only one reason to make them up like adult women.