I'm generally a pretty open-minded person, but absolutely cannot get behind anything that resembles exploiting children for profit and pedophiles.
Yes, I'm talking about beauty pageants for children.
The TV show Toddlers and Tiaras often crops up on a show I love called The Soup, in which Joel McHale pokes fun at events that happened on TV shows over the past week. I have learned to mute the TV at that point and read a magazine or otherwise occupy myself because if I would watch whatever clip they feature, I would most likely launch into a violent rant at whomever happens to be in close proximity.
I loathe parents who live their own dreams vicariously through their children. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the child of a soccer player playing soccer, for example, but as long as it's what the child wants to do. The moment they don't want to do it anymore, the parents should not force the issue.
It just makes me sick seeing the children complaining to their parents about practicing and having to put on pounds of makeup and fake their way through a pretentious routine in skimpy clothing. There's even a bathing suit round - for kids! What are they judging - who's lost the most baby fat? And if that's the case, I shudder to think of the diet their parents force them to eat. They're children! They should be being loud, getting dirty, spilling ice cream on their shirts, and playing off the cuff instead of having their every move be scripted.
OK so before I get really upset, there will be an absolute ban on beauty pageants of any kind for anyone under the age of 18 in Lichtenstein. No exceptions. In fact, I don't want there to be any kind of beauty pageants at all in my country. People will be too busy having fun the good 'ol-fashioned unscripted way.
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