tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post5726278940041006290..comments2024-01-30T05:22:06.674-08:00Comments on A Majority of Two: Toddlers and Tiaras ... the Sexploitation of Children...Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03382221688268676914noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-30001063222844092492011-09-19T14:06:54.378-07:002011-09-19T14:06:54.378-07:00I couldn't agree with you more. When I was a w...I couldn't agree with you more. When I was a would be dancer very long and far away, I saw this thing all the time. Little girls had head shots and 8x10 glossies that looked like they were meant for the cover of Cosmo. (Is that mag even still around?) I used to say that all stage mothers should be burned at the stake.mary.anne.gruen@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16839396134411360643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-18946094287323746902011-09-19T12:46:13.422-07:002011-09-19T12:46:13.422-07:00Never watched it, won't watch it and I agree 1...Never watched it, won't watch it and I agree 100% with your post. <br /><br />Amen.amourissimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11646051608348969625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-80056982540130155652011-09-18T21:06:32.546-07:002011-09-18T21:06:32.546-07:00@ Carol,
Your generation certainly did and the so...@ Carol,<br /><br />Your generation certainly did and the some of the younger generation seems to think that means it is now cool to wear Playboy bunny symbols on skimpy outfits, get breast enhancements, and behave like bimbos. See my reference to <i> Female Chauvinist Pigs </i> by Ariel Levy in my comment above. This is very disheartening.Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-6672173207066638582011-09-18T20:25:52.007-07:002011-09-18T20:25:52.007-07:00Right on. Those pictures of the young girls you po...Right on. Those pictures of the young girls you posted are GROSS. Just gives me the creeps. And I hate the idea of that playboy club TV show, too. Didn't we work hard back in the day to un-do some of this crap??Carol E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02741550863747328734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-2603183724290054012011-09-18T07:07:18.980-07:002011-09-18T07:07:18.980-07:00I have long held that this sort of pageants are ex...I have long held that this sort of pageants are exploiting the children and their families. Unfortunately, the terribly misguided parents are deemed to have the freedom to enter their children in these exhibitions. Freedom was never meant to include such irresponsible behavior.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-58334552489671288782011-09-18T05:37:11.527-07:002011-09-18T05:37:11.527-07:00I agree - and yes creepy indeed.I agree - and yes creepy indeed.mrsnesbitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16882736507772457598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-26133799057327596962011-09-18T02:45:00.953-07:002011-09-18T02:45:00.953-07:00Absolutely spot on! I am also someone who has love...Absolutely spot on! I am also someone who has loved sex -- but hate exploitation. Particularly of children who are so easily exploited. But of everyone. Sex without love is rape. People who commercialize it are pimps.Bagman and Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06760203276065466927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-52514852274247094042011-09-17T22:52:29.160-07:002011-09-17T22:52:29.160-07:00I saw this show ages ago and have even seen one of...I saw this show ages ago and have even seen one of the little "winners" on a talk show. It's disgusting, degrading, and creepy - just as you say. I will NOT watch it again and think the entire concept of little girls being "beauty pageant winners" is horrid. I even heard one mother say that being a "princess" is nothing because it means her little darling isn't good enough! Imagine!Leslie:https://www.blogger.com/profile/11964698251137788839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-90545180411380503552011-09-17T21:03:50.441-07:002011-09-17T21:03:50.441-07:00Amen! Standing ovation from me. I could not agree ...Amen! Standing ovation from me. I could not agree more. It's disgusting that so many parents are so hungry for attention that they exploit their children and put them in danger. Little Jon Benet Ramsey should be a cautionary tale, and it's shocking that she has already been forgotten by others eager to cash in on their own children's lost childhoods.heartinsanfranciscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07535397382991383931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-58043781332872315672011-09-17T19:10:09.334-07:002011-09-17T19:10:09.334-07:00I agree with all of this. There is no valid defen...I agree with all of this. There is no valid defense for the sexploitation of these girls. I'm sad that I live in a culture where this is ok and where people actually defend this. <br /><br />I also agree with Sextant, that the sexual exploitation of all women is not only creepy, but so damaging on so many levels. All of this started with the increased sexploitation of women. I mean, look at the example that someone gave of the Playboy bunnies in the poses as the little girls. But look at the adults- they're sex bunnies!!! Childlike, but sexual!! It's a slippery slope and now it's reaching the kids. Really, we shouldn't be so shocked it's gotten to this point. Women are becoming so misdirected. I'm personality not ok with the sexualization of anyone. I'm not a prude and love being a woman. But I certainly don't think that my sexuality should overpower anything else about me. That's a piece of me that's left to my boyfriend and keeping it for him makes it so much more special. <br /><br />I could go on and on about this topic....maybe I'll write a book lol!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-66100827084494511182011-09-17T19:02:09.457-07:002011-09-17T19:02:09.457-07:00I love this post...I have been fired up about this...I love this post...I have been fired up about this for quite awhile now. It absolutely sickens me to see this little girls made up like little hookers. It's disgusting and their parents should be ashamed instead of making money off their little girls bodies. <br />Now, how do we get it off the air?joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112607125596693550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-41787496990520212011-09-17T17:34:13.518-07:002011-09-17T17:34:13.518-07:00I loved in Boulder when JonBenet Ramsay was killed...I loved in Boulder when JonBenet Ramsay was killed. It was an eye opener to see the sexploitation of these little girls. That picture you have here, Jo, is simply horrifying. What are their parents THINKING???DJanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07152183871573797791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-18607064532098755732011-09-17T13:12:36.008-07:002011-09-17T13:12:36.008-07:00One would think that Jon Benet Ramsey would have b...One would think that Jon Benet Ramsey would have been enough of a slap in the face for any network much less a parent to not put this pedophile crap in the public eye.the walking manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10058913927297370740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-23009842115082611982011-09-17T12:48:47.193-07:002011-09-17T12:48:47.193-07:00Jo, I find it amazing that you wrote this entry ju...Jo, I find it amazing that you wrote this entry just now. I stumbled on that show TODAY, and watched half an hour with my mouth hanging open. And then I realized that MY WATCHING IT, regardless of my numb horror, was supporting it and I turned the tv off. I came to write a blog entry and there was yours--written more powerfully than I could write it and put before FAR more people than any entry of mine would be.<br /><br />THANK YOU. It was horrifying to watch the parents push little girls of 3 and 4... watching the little girls scream, even when one of them won. Seeing them with dental inserts, wigs, cinched in fluffed out, absolutely obsene. And, to my eye? Some of it seemed abusive by any legal standard.<br /><br />So often, the girls seem joyless, or their pleasure at winning seems tied solely to the degree of "love" expressed toward them by mothers who live or die by the wins, by the judgments of others.<br /><br />Your blog said all that need be said. The show should be cancelled. I am ashamed that I watched it at all, no matter whether or not I was watching in disbelief. Another show like it? DANCE MOMS.JeannetteLShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528285846408727632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-49045616052023479702011-09-17T12:25:12.997-07:002011-09-17T12:25:12.997-07:00I agree with what both Jo and Paula said here, but...I agree with what both Jo and Paula said here, but I will go you one further. I find the over-sexualization of women to be creepy as well, and I am a man. I do not like playboy bunnies or women who think that looking and behaving like a bimbo is hot. I am not a prude, or overly religious. I just find that intelligent women who dress and behave like adult women rather than bimbos to be much more attractive.<br /><br />I have read a couple of books recently on this issue. One is about raising girls and has a chapter about letting them be girls and not prepubescent sex queens, <i>Girls on Edge</i> by Leonard Sax.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Edge-Girls-Sexual-Cyberbubble-Environmental/dp/B004H8GL4U/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316286505&sr=1-3<br /><br />The second book is decries the bimbo culture as being a force of feminism, <i>Female Chauvinist Pigs</i> by Ariel Levy.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Female-Chauvinist-Pigs-Raunch-Culture/dp/0743284283/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316286765&sr=1-1<br /><br />It is tragic that girl's and women's self worth are often so imbued in a meaningless culture of beauty and fashion. Myself, I find brains and abilities to be very sexy.Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-7551351766081030102011-09-17T11:54:35.509-07:002011-09-17T11:54:35.509-07:00Paula, oh goodness yes, I totally agree. These li...Paula, oh goodness yes, I totally agree. These little girls' self-esteem could be built by education, training, skills, so many other things than how they look or smile, or pose. I think the whole thing is disgraceful.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382221688268676914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1518800171649154035.post-24097558393122015222011-09-17T11:10:28.445-07:002011-09-17T11:10:28.445-07:00You are absolutely right, Jo. The whole child pag...You are absolutely right, Jo. The whole child pageant lifestyle is an outrage. It sends the girls a bad message on so many levels. Seeing a tiny girl dressed, made up, and behaving like a woman of 25 really creeps me out, too.<br /><br />I recently read a magazine article about one of these families. They were of very modest means and lived in a barely adequate house, yet spent thousands a year on this stuff. If they are going to spend such a disproportionate amount on their daughter, it could be saved for college, trade school, down payment on a first home, a car to drive as a young adult, anything that would really help her get a start in life.Paulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06625526746032032681noreply@blogger.com