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Child Beauty Pagents

Former Member · 2007-02-08 07:59:28

I was watching Little Miss Sunshine last night (which I recommend you all watch and participate in this months Film Club discussion in Entertainment), and I was thinking, actually, does anyone else not find these things a little creepy? I mean you've got little girls essentially made up to look a lot older than they are,…

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Former Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

February 2007

briggi wrote: »

Well to be fair, if you're going to see any good in these paegants then it's that they get an incredibly tenacious (and scary, in my view) "work" ethic.

Also, a lot of them are talented singers, dancers... well, to use an all-encompassing word - performers... from the little footage of them I've seen, but then most young children could learn and perfect these skills to the same degree if the same amount of time and effort was put in. It could - of course - be exercised in a much healthier way and environment but if we had to pinpoint a silver lining then that'd be it. Obviously, that little "good" is far outweighed by the bad.

true, but they could do the singing/dancing whatever contests anyway, without having to go to a pagent queen contest.

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