baby beauty queens

Saw this doccie last night about child beauty queens.

Heaviness.

Talk about sexualising girls at a younge age. These babies - as young as 7! Getting fake tan, their eyebrows shaped etc...

I have issue with this purely based on the fact that these girls are being brainwashed into believing that tehy're only 'good' if people think they're pretty. Doesnt really matter what they DO / FEEL / CONTRIBUTE to society. Its all about looks.

And of course, that in itself presents a myriad of dangerous effects:

If they DONT win (and lets face it, there are at least 20 girls all competing at the same time, they cant all win), then that means theyre UGLIER than other people (process of elimination right?)

and it also means that whatever they have (hair, skin, looks generally) is ugly.

They have their whole TEENAGE life to have all that angst...

anyway, my point is... how do these girls even KNOW about 'sexy poses' at 7, 8 or 9???

And how messed up are their mums that they subject them to all that. And of course, the mums will say they dont force them to do anything. If they want to get out, they can... they dont have to do anything they dont want to...

But then theres the passive co-ersion. Let's be serious.

Whatever happened to playing hopscotch in the streets with the kids in the neighbourhood... okay im dangerously close to...'in my day'

but seriously... theres too much emphasis on looks... they get it from everywhere.

which is why i decided that i wont have my kids spend all their time with Nanny TV.

they'll have 1 or 2 hours a day.

which, according to my sister, is another kind of abuse!

anyway, thats my rant of the day..

out...