Analysis Of Toddlers In Tiaras By Skip Hollandsworth

In the article “Toddlers in Tiaras” by Skip Hollandsworth the author uses many ways to get the reader to know the rhetorical situation and also how his argument is structured. The analyzation of exigency in the article is what happens in the world of pageants and how it negatively affects young girls. Telling girls that you have to look and be a certain way instead of yourself. The purpose of this article is to inform you that young girls are being exploited as women. The girls are being overexposed and hypersexualized because of the pageantry. The audience that the author is referring to are parents or even grandparents most likely women in the age group of 30’s-50’s. Primarily Caucasian women with lower economic status. In the article it states how old one of the mothers whose daughter competes in the pageant is “Mickie, Eden’s mother a congenial, determined looking 46 year-old who’s wearing…” Another quote from the article would be to support how most of these parents whom most are middle class and spend an enormous amount on pageants for their children to be and have the best “Parents, many of whom have only modest incomes”.

Cultural wise many parents may have been in pageants when they were young so they want their children to follow in their footsteps. Pageants sometimes are traditions in the family so once someone in the family does it the parent might want their child to try it as