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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 351816" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I had a server who did this when I worked as a restaurant manager. The first pageant, which she said her baby "LOVED!!!!" had pictures that said differently to me. Every time they put her in that scratchy dress she cried and cried. I commented that the dress looked itchy (it had about 6 layers of very cheap scratchy netting to make it pouf, and when you touched it, yowie!) and she said I had lost my mind. By 1 yr the girl had won about 4 pageants and was regularly put into her tiara and sash to go out with Mom. I felt bad for the kid. She seemed to accept it, but it is sad to me when her pictures from 9 months old on have makeup on her. They can say it is tasteful all they want, but there is little I can see that is tasteful about making your infant child wear makeup that I would be ashamed to wear. Poor girl looked like a baby streetwalker. </p><p></p><p>I can only imagine the risky situations that might open a little girl up to. Premature sexualization is NOT a good thing. </p><p></p><p>on the other hand, I knew a woman in college who was first runner-up for our state in the Miss USA pageant heirarchy. She paid for college that way. Smart as all get out, engineering whiz who worked over 25 hrs a week while doing pageants and taking more than a full load - and getting straight As. She said that she expected some female witchiness, but everyone was really sweet, more like in the Miss Congeniality movie. At her first few, and her first really big one, they even did her hair and makeup for her while teaching her tips (like using spray glue to hold a swimsuit in place). She said she felt closer to some of those women from the pageants that year than she did to her other female friends. </p><p></p><p>I am not sure I would discourage a teen who wanted to do it for scholarship money or some other goal, but toddlers? NO WAY. NONE. I don't care how much the child says she likes it. Children are children, not little adults.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 351816, member: 1233"] I had a server who did this when I worked as a restaurant manager. The first pageant, which she said her baby "LOVED!!!!" had pictures that said differently to me. Every time they put her in that scratchy dress she cried and cried. I commented that the dress looked itchy (it had about 6 layers of very cheap scratchy netting to make it pouf, and when you touched it, yowie!) and she said I had lost my mind. By 1 yr the girl had won about 4 pageants and was regularly put into her tiara and sash to go out with Mom. I felt bad for the kid. She seemed to accept it, but it is sad to me when her pictures from 9 months old on have makeup on her. They can say it is tasteful all they want, but there is little I can see that is tasteful about making your infant child wear makeup that I would be ashamed to wear. Poor girl looked like a baby streetwalker. I can only imagine the risky situations that might open a little girl up to. Premature sexualization is NOT a good thing. on the other hand, I knew a woman in college who was first runner-up for our state in the Miss USA pageant heirarchy. She paid for college that way. Smart as all get out, engineering whiz who worked over 25 hrs a week while doing pageants and taking more than a full load - and getting straight As. She said that she expected some female witchiness, but everyone was really sweet, more like in the Miss Congeniality movie. At her first few, and her first really big one, they even did her hair and makeup for her while teaching her tips (like using spray glue to hold a swimsuit in place). She said she felt closer to some of those women from the pageants that year than she did to her other female friends. I am not sure I would discourage a teen who wanted to do it for scholarship money or some other goal, but toddlers? NO WAY. NONE. I don't care how much the child says she likes it. Children are children, not little adults. [/QUOTE]
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