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02-06-2010, 05:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: VA Beach | | | Anyone else think those kids padgents are creepy and wrong?
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Cause I sure as heck do
I was just flipping through the channels and landed on TLC while one of those little girl padgents shows on. Creepy, just creepy, thats the only way I can describe it. The moms are so out of control its unbelievable and the little girls are just being set up for huge emotional issues for later down the road, IMO.
I dont know, something about it all just really alarms me and creeps me out. Anyone else feel the same way? |
02-06-2010, 05:37 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | The *big* ones are truly disturbing- if these people do not see the weirdness they are perpetuating, I pity them(moreso the kids, of course).
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02-06-2010, 05:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: VA Beach | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassteban The *big* ones are truly disturbing- if these people do not see the weirdness they are perpetuating, I pity them(moreso the kids, of course). | One of the moms just refered to her daughter as a life size doll and another one took her 5 year old to get spray tanned for a competition 
where the hell are all the dads through all this? |
02-06-2010, 06:20 PM
| | The only winning move is not to play. | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Gainesville/Ft. Lauderdale, FL | | IMO, those pageants are all kinds of wrong.
They're basically sexualizing toddlers. It's gross and it's wrong. It's a goldmine for pedophiles.
Those girls are going to have all kinds of problems growing up. Body image problems, self-esteem problems from parents that expect competitive perfection from a child, etc.
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02-06-2010, 06:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | What's the term...Prostitots? |
02-06-2010, 06:38 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | I like the way the announcers refer to the little girls as "the total package."
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02-06-2010, 06:40 PM
|  | curiously looking back at what once was beautiful | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Oregon | | | They had a photo of a couple contestants on FailBlog recently (Parenting FAIL) and a bunch of us (including me) thought it was photoshopped.
But apparently real photos can look *that* bad when the subjects are wearing an absolute ton of cheap makeup.
Definitely not my scene...
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02-06-2010, 06:47 PM
| | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | BTW, I think it's horrid.
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02-06-2010, 06:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: NNJ/NYC | | | All kinds of WRONG.
It's demanding, melodramatic moms w/inadequacy complexes trying to live vicariously thru their kids (Which explains why they spend $10K+ to win a contest w/a $500-$2,000 prize... can you say overcompensating for feelings of inadequacy?), and usually the dads in these pageant families are the kind of guys who keep their balls (and their checkbooks apparently) in their wife's purse. I've seen some kinda documentary where a mom had an orthodontic surgeon create some kinda fake tooth for her kid when she lost one. Honestly, the only thing that creeps me out more than these parents, are the freakshows that judge these things.
So, no... you're not alone in thinking these are creepy. |
02-06-2010, 06:49 PM
|  | Superfast 2.0 | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Antonio, TX | | | One of my friends was a padgent girl and was Miss Teen Texas 2004. She'd been asked about the pageant insanity before and did say that while her parents weren't like that, an overwhelming majority of them are and it almost stopped her from doing pageants on more than one occasion.
She left the pageant circuit in college and hasn't gone back to the best of my knowledge.
But yes, pageants like that are ****ed up. Little Miss Sunshine did a very good job parodying them, IMO. |
02-06-2010, 07:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | | Ugly stuff.
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02-06-2010, 07:30 PM
| | | | That creepy stuff was on at my house today. It's like a bad car crash: you don't want to look but for some reason, you can't turn away.
I think it's like Pitbull Growl said: screwed up moms making their kids do these things. What little kid has enough world experience to really know this is something they want to do?
I watched some of the show today in total bewilderment. These parents are objectifying these girls. What kind of parent does this? How could they think this is okay?
I think it's wrong on so many levels. |
02-06-2010, 07:59 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Sebring, Florida | | | No one under 21 allows. In other words get rip of it.
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02-06-2010, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec | | | Those things really F#%?$ IMO.
I would even say they are Scary weird. |
02-06-2010, 08:13 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Omicron Persei 8 | | | Add a poll.
100000000000000000000% + 1 yes! |
02-06-2010, 08:36 PM
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100000000000000000000% + 1 yes! | I agree whole heartedly! This crap should be banned!  |
02-06-2010, 09:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Up the street from Fender... | | | I think they're one of the sickest forms of child exploitation out there. They're KIDS, let them BE KIDS!!!!!!
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02-06-2010, 10:47 PM
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Anyone else think those kids padgents are creepy and wrong?
| yes.
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02-06-2010, 11:22 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | | What`s wrong with dog shows?
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But yeah, those things are weird as hell. |
02-07-2010, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Buslady7803 I think they're one of the sickest forms of child exploitation out there. They're KIDS, let them BE KIDS!!!!!! | +110
Kids are not commodities. 
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The first gut-wrenching thing I thought of when I saw this thread? JonBenét Ramsey, August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996 RIP
Grotesque.
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The law is needed here.
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