Reading Response (Social Action) on: beauty pageants for little kids

I used these sites:

·         http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-7637&artno=0000316660&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Beauty%20contests&title=Ugly%20Truth%20About%20Beauty%20Pageants&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N

·         http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=S44-4241-0-7637&artno=0000294079&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Beauty%20contests&title=Pretty%20on%20the%20Inside%3F&res=Y&ren=N&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N

I read 2 articles one called Ugly Truth about Beauty Pageants by Caroline Overington and Pretty on the Inside? By Bari Weiss they were both about how little kids are getting older too early, when they could be enjoying their child hood instead they’re parents are pressuring them into doing beauty pageants and when they grow up thinking that, that was the right thing to do.

In the Ugly Truth about Beauty Pageants by Caroline Overington it talked about how kids are getting waxing, spray tanning and fake eyelashes when there just 7 or littler. It also talks about is this child abuse to kids or is it perfectly fine. Also if this might kill someone, mainly a child (if their parents might go too far), maybe by too much spray tan or just too much for the child to take.  It teaches kids that those types of kids are the “normal” kids and the kids who aren’t “normal” can end up having eating disorders or loss of confidence when they grow up. It also teaches that all that really matters is what’s on the outside, the looks and hair, but not the personality. Imagine if you were a little girl who was being judged to be the prettiest and then judges telling you “no” meaning that you’re not pretty enough. According to the articles it’s just like setting them up for plastic surgery or Botox when they grow up. Then the articles go on to talk about how vulnerable these kids are cause now there “exposed” themselves to the world.

      In the other article Pretty on the Inside? By Bari Weiss are similar and it discussed about how beauty contests mostly look at a girl’s body and looks. Instead of looking at the child’s (that’s competing) personality or talents. It also talks about how the pageants have limits to who their perfect person is like.

    My opinion on this idea is that it’s dumb to force your child to do something that they don’t have a say in, and that just because your dreams of being one and couldn’t do it doesn’t mean your child has to be what you wanted to become (but didn’t). so I think parents should stop forcing there child into beauty pageants unless they want to or at least wait until there older.