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.
Mother in Terms of Endearment and The Blind Side Two Oscar-winning actresses, two mothers in two movies, Shirley MacLaine and Sandra Bullock had different and perfect performance, but expressed something in common. In Terms of Endearment, Aurora who played by Shirley MacLaine was a cool lady. It can be seen from many places: In the beginning of the movie, she interrupted a baby’s sleep rudely; her daughter Emma’s wedding was coming, she still insisted that Emma should not marry Flap, because she could” not afford to overcome terrible marriage” . When Emma grew up, she still had many wooers. When she knew that Emma had the third pregnancy, she strongly recommended Emma to abort the child.
Research show most mothers enter their daughter into this pageant for bragging rights. Is this something they should be bragging about? It has also been shown that girls who were forced into beauty pageants at too young of an age show signs of (but not limited to): Over-competitiveness, low self-esteems, large desire for some kind of plastic surgery. A child, especially a female that is going to pay so much attention to her looks and that knows she is being assessed for it, is very prone to develop eating disorders, such as anorexia or bulimia. "It was the faces they were making, how little clothes they were wearing, fake teeth, hair, tans, eyelashes.
Girls’ affair with the “Princesses” “What’s wrong with Cinderella?” by Peggy Orenstein speaks of a mother’s struggle through the princess era with her daughter’s obsession with princess culture (Orenstein, 2006). Orenstein who is a writer for The New York Times Magazine adopts an informative approach towards writing this article. Thus, I believe her intended audience would be her fellow mothers who, also, are falling into the royal moment. In this article, Orenstein blames both the marketers and mothers for the perpetual of the princess culture which she believed to have damaging consequences to the girls’ future development. She backs it up with the following statement “I worry about what playing Little Mermaid is teaching her” (Orenstein, 2006, para.10) implying that her doubts toward such play.
Lakisha Slaughter September 16, 2013 English 102 Dr. Fierce In the article “What’s wrong with Cinderella” Peggy Orenstein’s views are that of a mother and of a feminist. Orenstein raised several concerns regarding the mental and physical control brought upon the younger generation in which she contradicts herself and assign blame. The writer claims that the princess-themed commercial products have distressing effects in shaping young female generations’ outlooks as well as their qualities. Orenstein uses her daughter as the example in the article.
Her mom continues to remind her how overweight she is and says things like “Look at you! Enormous!” (Carmen, RWHC). Carmen tells her she would be beautiful is she lost weight. Ana doesn’t listen to her because she knows there’s more to a person than just looks. There is even a scene where she strips down to her lingerie at work, where they were all women, in front of her mom.
It helps parents realize the messages that movies can transmit and let‘s them decide how often they will influence their children by media. Disney is one of the largest media companies in the world. They allow girls to have fairy-tales. They are simply called fairy- tales for the fact that they are something you can dream of and hope for. Representations of women in Disney films are due partly to the fact that Walt Disney's personal feelings about family life shaped the Disney Company, and partly to the fact that his attitudes mirrored the patriarchal cultural beliefs of the 1940's about what roles women should play in society (O'Brien.
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 .
For others, beauty is purely a woman’s charm, intelligence, or personality. However pageant girls are taught that “beautiful” is a woman who is thin, wears a lot of make-up, has fake hair, bleached teeth and spray on tans. Considering this, one might think ,,Have child beauty pageants gone too far?‘‘ 1960 marked the first child beauty pageant in America and started a major American trend. Children are now the fastest-growing segment of the beauty pageant market, with annual children's competitions attracting an estimated 3 million children, mostly girls. The girls that compete in these beauty contests are aged 2/3 to 10 years old and they all have one goal: win the tiara and the money.
The theme of the story is to show how Barbie dolls are negatively influencing young girls and the drastic change they had on young girl’s observations of relationships, self-image, and childhood innocence. At a young age, these girls are creating stories of infidelity and aggression that mimic how relationships are viewed through the media. “Every time the same story. Your Barbie is roommates with my Barbie, and my Barbie’s boyfriend comes over and you steal him okay?” (Cisneros, pg 576) This is giving girls a distorted insight of what occurs in normal relationships. These stories, the young girls create using theses dolls, make it seem okay if these types of unhealthy relationships occur.