Posted on 08/21/2006 2:58:06 PM PDT by Pokey78
I'm just looking at it and seeing that some people get overzealous in these child pageants. I'm not saying it happens all the time, but if it happens at all, it's worth a look. I mean, I've heard about parents entering their children into beauty pageants and making them go through plastic surgery to make their faces perfect and then caking them with tons of makeup. It's just weird, and I don't like it.
How many daughters do you have? Ever been to a pagent? Know what it takes to win one?
That ain't right.
The message in the Ramsey photographs and tapes that I've seen is that "here's a little girl made up like an adult." In that context it seems wrong.
In regards to make-up used in dance recitals, etc. from my understanding it is to highlight facial expression during the movement of the performance.
I don't know - any "parent" who feels the need to parade their young daughter around with heavy, painted-on make-up, trying to make her look adult, and dressing here in Daisy-Dukes sounds pretty sick to me.
As a father of a young girl, I wouldn't even begin to think about having my little girl dressed the way John allowed his child to be dressed.
And no - I am not blaming him in any way for his daughter's death. But I do believe he was exercising very poor judgment.
What a charming description of a 6 year old. You must be a blast at parties.
Man, that was a sleazy comment. Real low class.
Well put, I agree for the most part.
Little girls have been playing "dress up" and putting on mommy's make up since frills and make up were invented. Having little girl beauty contests, baby contests and any other sorts of contests for kids have always been perfectly acceptable.
Its the people who try to make them something "sexual" by their villifying tripe that are the problem. Leave these people alone. They did nothing wrong.
[My stepdaughter was a product of pageants...she credits them for teaching her the poise, grace and confidence she exhibits today. My husband "allowed" it...ya wanna tell me he's a perverted creep?]
Why draw the line there? If practice for the adult world is what we're advocating for, regardless of the fact that its sole purpose is promoting sexual allure, then perhaps it's time to let moms and dads legally show their preteen children by example how to have good adult sex. Show them all the most satisfying positions and make sure they practice on each other often, so that by the time they're ready to get married and have children they can have sex with poise, grace and confidence.
That may be true. But some people get overzealous in Little League sports, some people get overzealous in their children's schooling, some people get overzealous in disciplining their children -- it doesn't make the activity itself bad. And it surely doesn't give journalists or others the right to accuse a parent of being a bad parent or a murderer.
I don't particularly care for beauty pageants of all stripes, never interested me. But I don't think parents are murderers because their daughters participate in them.
"As a father of a young girl, I wouldn't even begin to think about having my little girl dressed the way John allowed his child to be dressed."
I don't even like to look at pictures of Jon Benet because it reminds me of a scene out of "Pretty Baby".
At an age when most boys are becoming acutely aware of the opposite sex, L.D. is surrounded by gorgeous, scantily clad women who bare their breasts onstage - but never in his presence.
The breasts aren't the whole show, of course. There is high-energy country music, dancing, corn pone humor a la "Hee-Haw" and specialty acts such as magician Nathan Burton.
There are a limited number of topless scenes.
And L.D. can't watch them, even though his hormones may be in a bit of a rage.
"My mom doesn't let me see any of the ladies," he says. "I wouldn't mind it, but..."
He also is still short enough that he can't see over a 6-foot curtain barrier behind stage. On the other side of the barrier the topless dancers are preparing for their next scene.
I truly believe that the parents/guardians don't see anything wrong with the make-up and costumes. They see it as comparable to a little boys dressed in a tuxedo at a wedding or William Wegman photographs -- but to the outsider the stuff is a little creepy.
bttt
"Its the people who try to make them something "sexual" by their villifying tripe that are the problem."
Oh, so it's not the people who dress children in SWIMSUITS, short-shorts, evening gowns, heels and plaster make-up all over their faces, like a pimp might do to increase business on his lower earming ladies of the evening? It's the people who complain about that who are at fault?
Dumbest thing I have read today, thanks.
Let’s face it: times have changed. The creep-o-meter needs to be recalibrated.
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