Toddlers & Tiaras [View all]
Seriously...why haven't the mothers (and dads) on this horrific TLC show been arrested and charged with child abuse? There is a T & T marathon on right now and it just blows me away how this shit is allowed to go on. How much more evidence do authorities - the FBI, local police, whoever - need that this garbage has to stop??
These horrible 35 year old women tugging and pulling at their little girls - their little toddlers - applying spray tan, pounds of make up, false teeth, big hairdos and tarted up skimpy outfits - so they can live out their own unrequited beauty queen fantasies....it is simply beyond the pale in every sense of the word. Nevermind the sexualization of two and three year olds up to adolescents (as if that weren't enough), it is soooo abundantly clear that the youngest of the little girls have absolutely no choice whatsoever in whether or not they participate in these God awful pageants. Some of them - still in diapers and pushed around in strollers - have the most stressful, unhappy expressions on any child I have ever seen in my life.
I know I am not breaking any news here in expressing outrage about this terrible program, but I have to ask: what is next? Seriously. What is next? This show was recently in the headlines because of the little girl who was dressed up by her abusive mother as Julia Roberts' hooker character in the movie Pretty Woman. And then the 24 hour news cycle moved on. What...I guess Herman Cain came along and said 9-9-9 so they followed that shiny ball for a little while.
This show, and the entire child beauty pageant industry which it portrays, needs to be investigated fully by....someone!!! Who will step up? Pass a law if the laws on the books aren't adequate...fucking do something.
We all expressed our shock and outrage at Newt Gingrich's suggestion that U.S. child labor laws need to be repealed or whatever nutjob thing he said. Well my question is....what child labor laws? Everyone said of course children shouldn't have to clean toilets at their schools...well what about dressing them up as little cuepee (sp?) dolls and dare I say little sluts in hotpants????
I need a drink. Maybe several. Flame away if you must, I think most won't but I don't care.
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