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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 460597" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>I don't watch the show. But I did see a CNN interview this morning with the mother. My personal opinion was although the outfit was far less revealing than many normally seen costumes in these pageants, it is OTT and highly inappropriate that it was meant to be a "hooker" costume. That aside, the mother said that the entire place was laughing including the judges, I mean hiliariously laughing and her daughter won the pageant. She said what was NOT shown on the program was that this was part of a "skit" that started out as Julia's character in Pretty Woman inthe beginning of the movie as the hooker look and transformed throughout the skit into a conservative look (they showed the end outfit which was appropriate and cute as a button). I still think the entire concept was insane for a childs pageant. But at the same time I hate that programs like this one on TLC will edit the context out of something and then people are outraged without the whole story. All in all, these programs do exploit situations for ratings and enjoy controversy. It angers me that a child is at the crux of this, and I hope the mother can find a way to have the ENTIRE portion of her daughters "skit" and "transformation" shown for viewers to assess what the real intent was. It sounded quite harmless as told by her and seems to be confirmed by the reaction of the crowd and the judges. Even some woman apparently after her daughter was crowned said to the TLC camera something about how awful a thing to do etc, yet earlier in the pageant had been laughing and told the girls mother what a great idea and raved about it, up until the girl won the top title and this other womans did not. And these two moms are friends, before the pageant and since the pageant. It still leaves me wondering why associate an outfit to a movie character of a hooker. What she meant by the theme of the skit and the changes to the outfits was the duckling into a swan comparison and apparently it had comedy in the routine, which does change the idea quite a lot. If one eliminates that the character was a hooker, and just go by the outfits in the early part of the movie compared to the end of the movie, the awful implication of "hooker" is not there and would change perception of viewers.</p><p></p><p>Having said all of that, I'd never put my child in an outfit like that. I don't watch that program for many reasons, mostly because many outfits DO sexualize young girls and I believe this was no better nor any worse than most costumes seen in the program. I would love a pageant show about the less dramatic pageants, the ones where girls can be age appropriate, dress up and have fun. I think it can do huge things for confidence, public speaking, help them grow to be outgoing and conquer fears etc. I'm betting the majority of pageants are nothign like the ones filmed for this show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 460597, member: 4264"] I don't watch the show. But I did see a CNN interview this morning with the mother. My personal opinion was although the outfit was far less revealing than many normally seen costumes in these pageants, it is OTT and highly inappropriate that it was meant to be a "hooker" costume. That aside, the mother said that the entire place was laughing including the judges, I mean hiliariously laughing and her daughter won the pageant. She said what was NOT shown on the program was that this was part of a "skit" that started out as Julia's character in Pretty Woman inthe beginning of the movie as the hooker look and transformed throughout the skit into a conservative look (they showed the end outfit which was appropriate and cute as a button). I still think the entire concept was insane for a childs pageant. But at the same time I hate that programs like this one on TLC will edit the context out of something and then people are outraged without the whole story. All in all, these programs do exploit situations for ratings and enjoy controversy. It angers me that a child is at the crux of this, and I hope the mother can find a way to have the ENTIRE portion of her daughters "skit" and "transformation" shown for viewers to assess what the real intent was. It sounded quite harmless as told by her and seems to be confirmed by the reaction of the crowd and the judges. Even some woman apparently after her daughter was crowned said to the TLC camera something about how awful a thing to do etc, yet earlier in the pageant had been laughing and told the girls mother what a great idea and raved about it, up until the girl won the top title and this other womans did not. And these two moms are friends, before the pageant and since the pageant. It still leaves me wondering why associate an outfit to a movie character of a hooker. What she meant by the theme of the skit and the changes to the outfits was the duckling into a swan comparison and apparently it had comedy in the routine, which does change the idea quite a lot. If one eliminates that the character was a hooker, and just go by the outfits in the early part of the movie compared to the end of the movie, the awful implication of "hooker" is not there and would change perception of viewers. Having said all of that, I'd never put my child in an outfit like that. I don't watch that program for many reasons, mostly because many outfits DO sexualize young girls and I believe this was no better nor any worse than most costumes seen in the program. I would love a pageant show about the less dramatic pageants, the ones where girls can be age appropriate, dress up and have fun. I think it can do huge things for confidence, public speaking, help them grow to be outgoing and conquer fears etc. I'm betting the majority of pageants are nothign like the ones filmed for this show. [/QUOTE]
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