Stereotypes In Beauty Pageant

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Beauty Pageants could be bad or good for some kids and how they dress and how they look in pageants. The article that supports my claim is 5 Reason child Pageants are bad for kids and the article that does not support my claim is Glitter and Glamour. One quotes that I am using is It’s just a bad idea “To put your child on public display”. Some reasons and evidence of my own is how much the pageants dresses are that they are wearing and where did they buy it from. I think that some of the kids should not be in the beauty pageant because they are too young and they do not need to be wearing dresses to short .Another quote I used is “promoting stereotypes that transform young girl’s into ‘sexual morsels.” How some of the kids are too

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