TLC - Toddlers and Tiaras - group trying to cancel show

[Twisterdog]

What is wrong with people?

I was shopping for my great-niece's birthday present a few years ago. She was six years old. So, I think I'll get her some clothes ... wrong. I seriously could find nothng in the store that was remotely age-appropriate - I found belly shirts, booty shorts, shirts that said, "I LOVE FOOTBALL players!" and "SEXY!!" and "I'M A FLIRT when my boyfriend's not looking!" - all in a child's size 6X mind you, for a child in kindegarten. I gave up.

At one time people sexualizing of young children were called perverts or pedophiles ... now they are mothers and primetime TV producers?

[RICHARD]

Agreed,

People should wait until the kids are at least in Jr. High school to let them wear a shirt like this one I saw-


I am home,
Take me drunk.

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Then they wonder why kids are victims of perverts.

Morons.

[Twisterdog]

People should wait until the kids are at least in Jr. High school to let them wear a shirt like this one I saw-

I am home,
Take me drunk.

What? Junior High? A twelve or thirteen year old wearing a shirt proclaiming that they are drunk?! I am going to assume you are joking.

No child of mine would wear that shirt in my presence until he or she was twenty-one years old, and even then I would comment negatively on it.

[moosmom]

Amen Twisterdog!!

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I have never heard of this show, but I find the idea of child beauty pageants bizarre and repulsing to say the least. Heck, I really find any beauty pageant weird and kind of sick, but if the contestants are adults at least they have a choice. I wonder who would actually want their child to compete in something like this? It sounds disgusting.

I find it really sad that we live in the 21st century and woman are trained by the media from a young age to believe that what is really important is their sexual appeal.

[Karen]

I find it really sad that we live in the 21st century and woman are trained by the media from a young age to believe that what is really important is their sexual appeal.

Oh, gosh please amend that to say "SOME women"! I certainly had drummed into my head "pretty is as pretty does" from earliest childhood! As were, I bet, lots of people here!

[K9soul]

I think Pembroke meant not so much parents are bringing up their girls in such a way, but more that media, movies, games, music, advertising, and even some parts of society in general perpetuate these ideas and ways of thinking.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Oh, gosh please amend that to say "SOME women"! I certainly had drummed into my head "pretty is as pretty does" from earliest childhood! As were, I bet, lots of people here!

I think Pembroke meant not so much parents are bringing up their girls in such a way, but more that media, movies, games, music, advertising, and even some parts of society in general perpetuate these ideas and ways of thinking.

Yes this is exactly what I meant, thanks. I think most parents probably teach their kids similar things to Karen's parents, which is good. But, I think that society sends a different message in many ways. Women on tv, in ads, movies, etc., are almost always young, thin, and beautiful (though this is not true of men). It's like women who are not these things are not valuable.