Skip Hollandsworth’s “Toddlers in Tiaras” argues the negative effects of participating in beauty pageants for young girls. Hollandsworth supported his argument through the use of the following techniques: narratives, testimonies, logical reasoning, appeals to emotion, facts, and an objective tone that attempts to give him credibility. These techniques are used to help persuade his audience of the exploitation of young girls in beauty pageants and the negative effects that pageants will have on their lives. Hollandsworth begins his article with how a typical beauty pageant runs and describes the multiple steps Eden Wood, a pageant contestant, goes through in order to get ready for a competition (490).
It was stated that most of the parents who enter these competitions have modest incomes. With that in mind, “Some of these families spend $75,000 a year on pageants; they could do a lot more in terms of expanding their daughters’ sense of possibilities with that money.” These are the words of journalist and author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Peggy Orenstein (¶ 35), who believes that pageants take away opportunities from the
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.
Odysseus (P.567) This story illustrates how a Greek leader by name Odysseus and his men entered the cave finding food and drink to help themselves with but happened that they fell asleep. And Cyclops, whose other name is Polyphemus, joined them in the cave, he lead his flock sheep in the cave and rolled out a big stone against the mouth of the case which was close to the entrance. Therefore, seeing Odysseus, and his men asleep in the cave, he became angry and grabbed two of the men, crushed them to the rocks and ate them, and later he fell asleep. Odysseus seeing that act of Cyclops couldn’t do anything since Cyclops was the only strongest people that rolled out the stone from the cave.
Let’s say hypothetically that you just finished an entire footrace you participated in at your high school. You felt the burn, you’re all out of breath, you tried really hard and you’re exhausted. Yet, your hard work paid off because you made it in first. Well, not really. This other kid went really slow, slower than a snail’s grandmother, and he gets as much praise as you.
In today’s society, more and more kids are getting participation trophies for doing nothing except showing up. Yes it is important to teach kids to do their best, but being awarded just for being as good as you already are doesn't give kids the motivation to make themselves even better. Why would they want to improve if they already have that shiny trophy? I do not believe that participation trophies should be handed out like they are.
Child beauty pageants are a little girl's worst nightmare. Child beauty pageants can cause emotional problems. In the article “5 Reasons Child Pageants are Bad for Kids” it states, “Objectification of young girls is strongly associated with eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression.” If you treat these
Child beauty pageants are contests, in which thousands of girls, sometimes even boys, under the age of 18 compete against each other on stage. The typical parade is often divided into different rounds, including for example a talent, interview, casual wear or sportswear round. Additionally, contestants wear eye-catching outfits, expensive custom fitted and designed outfits while presenting their professionally choreographed routines. Everything began in the United States in 1921, as a support to boost tourism.
Children beauty pageant is considered child abuse because it puts the children and the children’s health in
This is why I think child beauty pageants should be banned because they get sexualised and also their confidence/self-esteem will be lowered at such a young age. People are convinced that the contestants only turn up on the day and prepare on the day. However, this is not the case, because the contestants go to extreme lengths to win so they will prepare all year, this shows the pageants are being drummed into their brains 24/7. A two day rehearsal then takes place before the show to ensure that everything can go without a glitch. This is basically the theft of childhood, there is plenty of time as an adult to face this pressure without competing and failing at such a tender age.
Beauty pageants in the beginning were fit for more mature contestants and an older audience, but overtime the age has slowly lowered. Pageants now have a age category for children as young as three to four year olds. These children are in no way mature enough to handle the critiques that they receive from judges (“Beauty Pageant Pros and Cons.”). They do not understand that it is okay to take a defeat, and sometimes it can lead to a loss of confidence or a sense of depression (“Beauty Pageants Pros and Cons.”). The young contestants are going through hours of beauty prepping so that they can look like Cindy Crawford on stage (“Debate: Child Beauty Pageants.”).
These pageants distract children not only from their childhood but, their education too. In an interview with a middle school student from IS 276 in lower Manhattan, Justine Inn states, “I don’t think it is necessary to compete for who is the most beautiful.” To compete like this is not developmentally appropriate, it is giving the wrong mindset to kids. Kids should be
Child Beauty Pageants are beauty contests for children under 18 years of age. It is a competition which divided into different categories such as, talent, interview, swimwear, theme wear and much more. Coming to the 21st century, child beauty pageants has become a growing trend in many countries, especially in the United States. There is numerous television show that is specifically organizing the child beauty pageants like “Toddlers and Tiaras” and “Little Miss Perfect” (Kelling, 2016). About 250,000 children participate in child beauty pageants every year, and the number is only increasing.
Beauty Pageants Banned: How Harmful are Beauty Pageants? Imagine seeing someone make their crying eight year old go up on stage in front of everyone, with mascara starting to drip down her face and she's tripping over her enormous dress. What would other parents think? Child Beauty pageants should be banned because they most often become dangerous for a young child to be in.
Beauty pageants consist of more than appearances, but also other qualities of the women and the pageants themselves. To start, pageants have multiple layers to them but the beauty segment will most likely show on television. In actuality, “ The private interview is worth 25 percent of their preliminary score, while the swimsuit round is only worth 15 percent”(Kaplan). Just one of the segments that airs on television is worth a minimal amount of points in the pageant circuit. This particular pageant, started by Krista Medlock, a former pageant queen, focuses on only inner beauty.
