Woman buys a fake bust and padded butt for her 4-year-old pageant girl

[siead_lietrathua]

A costume contest is completely different.
In a costume contest, you are judged on how well you seem something you are not.
In a beauty pageant they judge your attractiveness.
Totally different.

but in this particular contest the kid was being judged for being a dolly parton look-alike. for trying to look like someone she wasn't. so i dont find the comparison that different.
i can understand people getting upset if this was normal pageant attire for this kid. but it seems like it was a gag for a specific occasion and people are just overreacting.

[Andara Bledin]

but in this particular contest the kid was being judged for being a dolly parton look-alike. for trying to look like someone she wasn't. so i dont find the comparison that different.
i can understand people getting upset if this was normal pageant attire for this kid. but it seems like it was a gag for a specific occasion and people are just overreacting.

This. In a look-alike contest the idea is to look like someone else. That almost totally invalidates the "OMG, how could you support that?!?" reaction because it's not about whether the girl looks pretty, but whether she looks like that other person.

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[SkullKing]

You have a point.

The question is, was it a costume contest and the mother decided to make a nice costume for her daughter.

Or was it a beauty contest and the mother taught this particular addition(Boobs) would make her daughter prettier?

[Canarr]

just wondering, if this was for a Halloween contest and not a beauty pageant would people be as up in arms? cuz both those cases can be dress up to get judged/ win stuff.

I gotta say, if I saw someone dressing up their four-year-old daughter as, say, Elvira, Mistress of Darkness, for Halloween - complete with fake boobies, low neckline etc. - I'd be creeped out. Same goes for this Dolly Parton lookalike thing, or kiddie pageants in general.

Dolly Parton's outfits and posing was geared towards looking sexy. Whether or not it did succeed depends on personal taste, but she sure did try. Dressing up a toddler to look like someone (supposedly) sexy ist just... disturbing. At least, it disturbs me.

[siead_lietrathua]

@skullking
i dont think she added the boobs to make her daughter prettier or sexier. i mean, if you take it right from the article
" 'When she wears the fake boobs and the fake butt, it's just like an extra bonus.It's really funny when she comes out on stage and everyone thinks it's hysterical,' she said."
they went for laughs, not for sex appeal.

@Canarr
i've seen pics of kids dressed as jersey shore guido/ettes online ranging from 4-10.
http://www.nerdnirvana.org/wp-conten...ersey-kids.jpg
i think i'd rather see a Elvira come up to the door. at least she's an icon of halloween and not of getting-plastered-and-fighting.
but since google turned up nothing for kids dressed as her, i guess maybe she's a tad old fashioned. haha.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think you're missing the point; which is not surprising, cuz the link doesn't show the full article. Here's a link to the full article: Click

The young child is not able to read properly, can barely string sentences together and seems unclear as to who the country singer star is - yet is propelled into a surreal version of womanhood by her mother, Lindsay.

The girl doesn't even know who she's meant to be, so I really doubt that it's a form of dress up. If Maddy was dressing up as say, Dora the Explorer, it would be cute and funny. Dressing as a country singer who's career rests on getting her boobs out is pretty damn obviously about being sexy, which for a four year old, is just wrong.

Maddy's stylist Michael Booth believes the attire is a step to far.

Interviewed backstage at the competition, where hundreds of young hopefuls battle it out to be crowned beauty queen, Michael said: 'I wasn’t a big fan of the outfit with the boobs in it. She’s very young, but hopefully the judges will perceive it in good taste.'

Even the girl's stylist thinks that the fake boobs are a step too far, and he very likely sees dozens of over made up, fake tanned toddlers.

Also, this: Little girl dressed as prostitute Not the same girl, but the same show. I don't know what planet you inhabit, but the one I live in tends to hold the view that it's super disturbing to see four year old girls dressed sexy.

[siead_lietrathua]

I don't know what planet you inhabit, but the one I live in tends to hold the view that it's super disturbing to see four year old girls dressed sexy.

not sure if this last part was directed to me, but heck i will jump to the bait.
in my planet NOTHING a child does is sexy. can a child be dressed inappropriate for their age? sure, i can agree to that. prancing a kid about in high heels and skimpy clothing is inappropriate. little miss dolly (the point in the original article) was in a floor length dress with no cleavage. the boobs and butt were stupid and funny looking.
but sexy? no. and why? because my brain does not connect the idea of child and sexy in the same sentence. even when saying "kids are being sexualized by dressing a certain way" my brain goes "huh?" because IMHO i can't see it. they look like under-dressed idiots, sure. but not sexy.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Again you're missing the point. I don't see the children as "sexy"; you don't; no-one who's sane does. So why do their parents want to make them look as tho they are? Why do they want them to be attractive to Pedobear?

[siead_lietrathua]

Why do they want them to be attractive to Pedobear?

i thought pedobears were attracted to a child's innocence. so making them look older wouldn't really appeal to them either.

[Lace Neil Singer]

You know many pedophiles, then?

[Canarr]

That's not a mindset I want to do too much exploring in, I have to admit. And I can't claim any psychological training, nor any deeper knowledge of pedophiles than you get from watching Criminal Minds.

My problem is: this whole topic here is just creepy to me. I see things done to toddlers that grown women do to themselves in order to increase their sex-appeal - makeup, tight and/or revealing dresses, bodyspray and whatnot - and my brain just screams, "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHIT????". Because, as siead_lietrathua mentioned: my brain does not compute "children" and "sexy" togehter. That just doesn't work; it's like someone nailing wheels to my feet saying, "Hey, now you can drive!"

It just appears wrong to me. Every fibre of my being protests against this.

[siead_lietrathua]

You know many pedophiles, then?

i have a few lovely books on the mindset behind sexual fantasy that unfortunately include chapters on pedophilia.
i was also the victim of childhood sexual assault and studied into the mentality of pedophiles when i hit my late-teens as a coping method, to understand why it happened to me.
so no, while i don't know many pedophiles, i have read a fair bit about them. thanks.

why do these threads always degrade to pedophilia anyway? it goes from whether or not the mom giving the girl fake boobs was appropriate (and hey, if the kid was in skimpy clothes instead of the full length gown i'd be on the "wtf lady" bandwagon too), to omfg the pedos are coming because kids are dressing too sexy.
pedos will come no matter what you put the kids in, be it bikinis or body armor.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Never said they wouldn't. My remark was just a facetious flip remark, and I'm sorry if it caused you any offence.

What Canarr said pretty much summed my view up; dressing small children up in faux adult clothes, with spray tans, fake nails, spadeloads of makeup etc is creepy. Hell, I even think that teenage girls with shitloads of fake tan and makeup look kind of creepy, but it's even worse on a four year old who doesn't know who she's meant to be or even where she is and why she's there.

[Canarr]

why do these threads always degrade to pedophilia anyway?

It's probably that whole "Stranger Danger!" thing the US has going. From some posts I've read on CS, there are parents who believe that the minute they let their children out of their sight, some pedophile will drag them into a beat-up white van and they'll disappear forever. Any story about parents abusing stores as babysitters will have at least one "OMG THEY MIGHT BE ABDUCTED OUT OF THE STORE!!!!!" post in it.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Parents should be scared of themselves; most kids are murdered by their parents, anyway. XD If not their parents, then a family member, friend, or someone they know, like a neighbour. There's someone who I used to live near who wouldn't let her kids go on the bus to school cuz it was, according to her, full of pedophiles. I just imagined a bus full of Pedobears when I heard that. XD

Anyway; I just find child beauty paegents disturbing. Yes, the child enjoys it, but a lot of these mothers are way too hardcore. Click. More so than fake tan, the fact that this eight year old girl kicked one of the judges just cuz she lost is pretty disturbing to my mind.