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
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
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 the 1950s, beauty pageants, Barbie dolls, and icons like Marilyn Monroe played significant roles in shaping societal perceptions of beauty and sexuality. These cultural phenomena are all very well-known aspects of the period and set an expectation for femininity, beauty ideals, and gender roles, reflecting and perpetuating the dominant standards of the time. With minimal regard for the conservative climate of the time, they remained popular due to their ability to both conform to and challenge prevailing attitudes, appealing to all relevant audiences. The first modern beauty pageant took place in 1921. By the 1950s these showcases became part of everyday pop culture, influencing societal standards of femininity, beauty, and physical appearance.
So everyone knows what video game is, a game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen. Do you not have many misconceptions about video games like “they are for kids, they do not require team work, they are all the same or nothing good ever comes out of video games” (The Crap Gamer,1). People have looked at video games that way for a long time, and no it’s not bad to look at them like that because anyone can misjudge anything by it’s cover. Should we be so judgment about it, no because games are part of our society and they just keep getting better better. But enough of being so pushy about video games, I would like to share a new view towards video games as a discourse community.
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
Are Children Beauty Pageants really safe? Children beauty pageants can have negative effects it can be physically or mentally. People should ban child beauty pageants because beauty pageants sexualize children, parents abuse their child and it exposes children from pedophiles. Sexualizing children are one of the reasons that children beauty pageants should be banned. “Young girls who participate in pageants become sexualized by wearing adult style clothing, makeup, and assuming provocative poses.”
Also someone else who is not only a woman herself but, sees that it can be detrimental, many people don’t know how severe pageants can be. Another example the author used was CBS news anchor Dan Rather compared a past pageant video footage of JonBenet to “kiddie porn.” Indicated that these pageants are attracting the wrong image to society and are becoming more and more harmful to those who participate in the pageants.
Beauty Pageants are events which women and younger girls or boys compete in across the world but the most popular country for these pageants are USA. The age requirements start at 3 years for both girls and boys, I feel this is too young an age to start brainwashing them. Many critics claim that the beauty pageants place more emphasis on the physical aspects of the body and over look the other aspects. This is what causes these pageants to be so unhealthy for the younger children competing.
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.
Many young woman that have participated in pageants as young girls, still do not love their bodies. Yet, the industry is multiplying quickly. Although child beauty pageants teach participants valuable life skills, in the midst of that, pageants set a unrealistic standard for beauty causing young adolescents to develop self-esteem issues and use too many self-altering substances. Beauty pageants cause self-esteem
Growing up, most female contestants are affected their whole lives. How often would one see a young pageant contestant that is not only focused on how she looks and how she acts. Child beauty pageants should be banned because their teaching young children to focus on beauty and attitude more than their education, their taking away their childhood, and it can lead to abuse. Beauty Pageants teach young children that their beauty is more important than their education. Beauty pageants make young female children feel like they need to focus more on their beauty and attitudes more than their education.
Many now wonder if competing in beauty pageants adversely affect a child’s development. Beauty pageants deprive children of their confidence and childhoods because they lower girls self esteem, they force children to look and
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.
