After a long week at work, I like to chill out at home on Friday nights. One of the shows I enjoy watching when I'm just vegging out is The Soup with Joel McHale.
However, there is one show that Joel pokes fun at regularly that I never, ever find funny. In fact, I actually get angry at every time I see a snippet of the show that I never in a million years would watch and therefore support with my Nielson rating: Toddlers in Tieras. This show Makes. Me. Sick.
From what I gather from the snippets I see of this show while watching The Soup, this show is about overweight, orange, Botoxed mothers forcing their toddlers to wear skimpy clothes (including a pint-sized replica of what Julia Robertson wore while portraying a prostitute in Pretty Woman - I'm not even kidding) and fake smile while pretending they're having fun.
The Soup usually shows the portion where the toddler is throwing a fit because they don't want to perform or the interview where the child says they are just tired and want to play with dolls, etc. This to me is nearly as bad as child abuse because in the majority of cases, the child doesn't have a say whether she wants to be in pageants or not.
No child should have to sit through an hours-long prepping process involving hair extensions and fake eyelashes. And the mothers are always about a hundred times more involved and excited about the dance numbers, shown by the over-exaggerated movements they make behind the judging table while "coaching" their daughters.
Therefore, in Lichtenstein, beauty pageants for any child (read: any person under the age of 18) is illegal and will not be tolerated. I don't even like the idea of beautiful baby pageants because the children are just being judged on their appearances. If a person wants to enter a beauty pageant when she's legally an adult and able to make their own decisions, then fine. They can go to another country and be in one.
Children are precious and should be having tea parties, getting grass stains, and running around. Not having temper tantrums while getting lip stains and then fake prancing around.
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