CP on The Learning Channel?
 

I saw a trailer for TLC?s new program ?Toddlers and Tiaras? it?s a reality show about child beauty pageants.

I saw one of these once, it was in the Venetian Hotel during one of the adult shows, it was in a convention room near ours.

What struck me about it was that these little 5-12 year old girls were wearing outfits and makeup that would have been inappropriate for OUR industry, and thats when it struck me. These things are nothing more than pedophilia. They sexualize these children and reward them for that behavior. Then to make it worse, it?s the parents who are doing it. I wanted to scream at them, have you people lost your fucking minds? This is sick.

Now TLC glorifies it in a reality show?pedophiles unite? what will they do next? a reality show on NAMBLA members? Maybe they will get Max to judge one of their beauty pageants, hell may as well go ahead and acquaint them now because they will meet eventually.

Stop sexualizing your children and let them be children, adulthood and all the pressures that go with it come soon enough.

I?m sorry but these things disgust me. If the DOJ wants to find people sexually exploiting children they need look no further than TLC.

Im am glad I am not the only who thought this! These children are being exploited without a doubt.

People use to bitch about Barbi. But have you seen Bratz dolls? They are out right fucking street hookers.

I saw the same commercials and was thinking WTF are those aprents thinking doing that to their kids and its was a Pedophiles dream show

I saw this commercial and I was also disgusted.

I haven't seen that, but we had some similar here. European song contest for juniors in inappropriate context, and the Nordic countries decided to withdraw from it and make our own decent show.

I haven't seen this show, but I saw a documentary about these little kid pageants a few years back. It was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen. The kids are like 5-10 years old and they dress them up and cake on the make-up and tease out the hair. So they have these little kid bodies, but with all the make-up and hair they have faces that look a lot older, but don't look right. To me they all looked like midget trannies. There was one woman who bankrupted her family so she could pay for the coaches and clothes and travel to get her little daughter through the pageant circuit and the girl clearly didn't want to do it. Meanwhile her teenage son is at home feeling abandoned because his mom works two jobs, but the are dead broke so she can drop a grand on a dress, 1500 on dance lessons and be gone every weekend. He ended up getting high and getting arrested and the mom couldn't figure out why.

I attended a body building show here and it started off with youth and went on through the adult classes. When they began the girls figure competition, I was shocked by what I saw. I agree, it seems too young for such behavior, and to be teaching them to want to behave this way.

The movie Little Miss Sunshine has this as one of it's central themes. It was a good film. If all the pageants are like the one's in the film, it's pretty appalling.