21 Aug. 2006. 2 June 2009 This source discusses the anger of beauty pageants. Beauty pageants promote the sexualization of young girls and provide to those involved in pedophilia. Parents are the ones who are at fault for exposing and subjecting their daughters to the sexual use of beauty pageantry. I’m going to use this info to prove that Beauty pageants aren’t just for fun and games, that there child could be in danger .
The phrase almost invariably refers only to contests for women and girls. Children's beauty pageants mainly focus on beauty, gowns, sportswear modeling, talent, and personal interviews. Adult and teen pageants focus on makeup, hair and gowns, swimsuit modeling, and personal interviews. Possible awards include titles, tiaras or crowns, sashes, savings bonds, and cash prizes. Beauty pageants are exploitive; they have kids that prance around in skimpy outfits.
5/25/2011 Enc1102 “ Bonfire of the Princesses Analysis” Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of the article “Bonfire of the Princesses.” In her article, the author points out how Disney has been over marketing their princesses to girls, and how Disney’s princesses are bad role models for children. She points out that everything on Disney’s product line is there to draw your child in to the princesses. While stating these points in her article she is trying to convince readers that Disney and its marketing is bad. Ehrenreich is effective with her appeal by getting the readers emotion and making them want to side against Disney; and also by getting the reader to think about if Disney should have as much credibility as it does with people. The
The media works hard and goes to any extent when they attempt to gain capital in our capitalistic country. Take TLC’s (Television Learning Channel) popular program Toddlers and Tiaras as an example; this program promotes the use of makeup for “toddlers” in order to win a beauty pageant. This show is highly controversial because of the mothers that permit their children to use makeup at such a young age. Sherri Shepherd commented on the mothers who are
They compete against other contestants for an award of money, pageant titles, trophies, and a big sparkly tiara. However I don't approve of the parents position to put their child through this, and how they treat their daughters throughout the competition. Not only are they exploiting their five-year-olds for their own personal gain, they are putting their child through so much misery to look beautiful. They live through their daughters fame and glory, and make their daughters look very high maintenance. The Toddlers and Tiara girls go through hours of make-up, to different hairstyles, and wearing big fake wigs.
Some say Madelyn’s grown-up beauty is giving other young girls unhealthy ideas about how they should look and these people sure know what’s good and bad. Should our 10 year olds be exposed to the world in such a way? I think not. Girls under the age of 16 should not be allowed to pose for images or walk on the runway.
Non-fiction essay on how the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter responds to societal issues. The new generation has been taken over by the poor representation of women and girls in the media, from television screens to magazines; women are portrayed as the weak and sensitive gender doing housework chores such as cooking or laundry. The topic of societal issues occurs in the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein. In the book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, by Peggy Orenstein, the author responds to societal issues like eating disorders and Disney’s impact on girls with research from psychological associations and real-life situations. Peggy says that the girlie girl culture we are living in is increasing issues like eating disorders, body weight issues and unsafe sexual behaviour.
Analytical Essay Have you ever wanted to change something about yourself that no one else thought needed to be changed? What if everyone else but you thought you needed to change a flaw you had never seen before. That is the tragic situation in Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll.” The main character went from having a positive outlook on her beauty and being healthy and intelligent to having a negative self image and becoming self-conscious of everything that once was. If she had been told she was beautiful, maybe just once, she would not have taken such drastic measures to obtain beauty. In Piercy’s poem, the deadly effects of the ‘Beauty Myth’ are revealed in a symbolic representation of death.
In James Poniewozik’s 2004 Time article The Princess Paradox, he elucidates how the Hollywood movie industry had found a way to manipulate an big chunk of the American nation through the idea of feminism. Hollywood has changed the original concepts of the original fairytales by retelling their stories in a more modernized and female-friendly way. This change is aimed especially at the parents of young girls who are consistent in pushing the idea of independence into their child’s minds. The Princess Diaries is a spin-off of the classic fairytale Cinderella; however in this modernized version, the female lead Diana has no desire at first to be a princess. She is given the chance to experience the life of a princess and then is given the choice to choose whether or not she wants to take over the throne.
Beauty pageants are more closeted to women, where Men’s pageants are more aptly named for “body building” or “Mr.” usually followed by some adjective or some place. The fundamental point however, remains the fact that beauty pageants are more often than not a competition of the outward physical attractiveness. Whereas the beginning of these pageants might have been more for the fun and revelry, with time they have started becoming coveted and celebrated titles. Nowadays, the pageants are more like stepping stones leading to fame, fortune and recognition in media and in public. The titles have been so exemplified that girls start preparing themselves for these pageants from a very tender age.