"Beauty Pageant" for Kids? WTF(ail)?

Hello, fellow students!

Today, I'm going to be talking about something I found the other day...something I just think is weird, sad, and exploitive--Toddlers in Tiaras, on TLC.

Okay, so if you've never heard of this, basically what they do is they go to "beauty pageants" that are designed for girls under ten years old. The parents (who pay butt-loads of money for gowns, travel, and makeup by the way) dress their girls up in the most ridiculous outfits, then send them up on a stage where the girls prance around and look pretty.

All this is fine and dandy...normally, I wouldn't care about this (except to make fun of the whole idea, of course), but when I saw the way that the moms literally worshipped the ground their kids walked on...that disgusted me.

One of the girls treated her mom like crap, saying stuff like, "MoooOOOm! You hurt me!", "Shut up, woman!", and "You're not supposed to PRESS SO HARD!!!" (something about nails). The worst part of this was that the mom just took it! She later said the following:

"Once her medication wears off I just.........run!"

That's not ringing any alarm bells at ALL?!?! The kid is in control? Talk about the degredation of America, but that's just wrong!

But you know what else was wrong? When some of these kids went up on the runway, they were wearing less than girls who perform on the Vegas Strip! I'm not kidding, in some states that would qualify as child pornography! And there's parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and great-aunts and great-uncles and God-knows-who-else watching this and cheering it on!?

I'm sorry, but this is a great sign of the sin of this country--when displaying underage children in skimpy clothing and allowing them control over their parents becomes a TV show that people are entertained by.

Just yesterday, the Enid Police Department talked to us about child pornography, and how illegal/just-plain-wrong it is. I don't think it's any coincidence that right after that chapel I heard about this stupid show. I sincerely hope that the people reading this realize how dumb stuff like this is, and work to change America's interests for the better.

Here's to the Sane,

--JesusFreak