Chapter 2: Toddlers & Tiaras - Controversial
Introduction
On shows like Toddlers & Tiaras, girls are depicted embracing stereotypical female roles and behaviours, where they are portrayed as sexualised
We are not Toddlers and Tiaras Spotlights shining right in your eyes, you can hear everyone cheering your name, will you win? Or was all the hard work for nothing; pageants are not just based on pure beauty. Many communities each year have their own pageants For Berrien County, it’s the Miss Blossomtime pageants. These consist of 22 pageants for each local community, and then in March each one of those girls who won compete for the title of Miss Blossomtime. By competing in pageants you learn how to socialize with your peers, how to present yourself in front of a community, and you learn how to grow as a person inside and out.…
Mr.Hollandworth in this articles begins discuss the negative part about pageants. He provides facts about multiple girls that use to do pageants at a young age. He then describes how pedophiles go and watch pageants. In the Article Toddlers and Tiaras, Mr. Hollandworth demonstrates tone, expert opinions and examples Ms. Eden Woods is only six years old and living the life of a royalty.…
Since the television set first began gaining popularity, it has provided entertainment as an escape from reality as well as functioning as an influential learning tool. The initial goal of this paper was to examine the extent to which media skews perceptions of reality through two different programs. Comparing and contrasting a reality and news program we found that while belonging to different genres. Toddlers and Tiaras and Good Morning America have many components in common, one of the foremost being the construction of stories based around real events that is presented as reality. In addition to their numerous similarities, a few differences exist as well, primarily the individuals impacting the produced content, i.e., media companies for…
The reliable source “Darling Divas or Damaged Daughters” written by Lucy Wolfe is relevant to my topic because it explores the physical and passionate strain pageant parents dispense on their kids witch I will explain more deeply in my paper. The author argues that mostly little girls are being on these industries which they dress them up and parade them around like a bazaar represent the purpose of a title as the best glamorous queen, as appeared on TLC's Toddlers and Tiaras. Wolfe analyzes that this child rearing style ought to be considered child abuse, and should be taken to trial in a court of law. Lucy Wolfe is a graduate law understudy at Tulane University Law School, who examined this subject with the assistance of her law educators.…
There are three groups that have power in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? ; the kids, the audience, and the leadership. These groups represent different genders in the way they’re presented and how they interact with each other. The kids are the feminine, cautious and intuitive, the audience is the androgynous, passive and oblivious, and the leadership is the masculine, blunt and tricky. These traits shed light on why each group uses their power in such different ways and why the kids and the leadership are closer to each other than with the audience.…
Skip Hollandsworth doesn’t specifically come out and do that though. In the article Toddlers in Tiaras, he does not take a stand and directly argue the “right” side; he isn’t bias towards pageants but isn’t against them either. Hollandsworth adds in two specific pieces of the positive aspects of pageants. He shared a young, known, pageant girl, Eden’s story; everything was positive. Skip Hollandsworth also adds that a young girl states she wants to practice, she isn’t forced.…
This essay talks about issues on the controversy around the sexualization or adultification of children in beauty pageant on the reality hit television program Toddlers & Tiaras, on The Learning Channel television network, TLC. Viewers express anger and disappointment to not only on the show itself, but to the parents who ‘forcefully’ allow their kids to partake on the pageant by dressing up as a prostitute, wearing fake breasts and padded buttocks as well as smoking just to name a few. Parents of this participants explain that the sexy outfits are merely costumes but experts and psychologist note that the costumes can confuse kids about their body image, leading to eating disorders and the desire for cosmetic surgery. In this essay,…
This essay discusses the controversy around the sexualization of children on the beauty pageant circuit as presented on the reality television program "Toddlers & Tiaras" on the TLC television network. Parents of pageant participants explain that the sexy outfits are merely costumes, but child development experts note that the costumes can confuse children about their body image, leading to eating disorders and the desire for cosmetic surgery. Topics discussed include the high costs of participating in pageants, their prevalence in the Southern U.S. and concerns that the TV program is…
This sheds light on the fact that these pageants have more to do with the parents then the children themselves, parents start their children in pageants at as young as eighteen months old. The…
At a first glance, it all seems like a little girl’s dream. Long, flowing dresses, like the Disney princesses that they grew up envying, bleach blonde hair and pink lipstick like the seemingly ‘perfect’ Barbie dolls that they get every year for their birthday. If they do their best, they can even win their own tiara! But all is not as it seems. Child beauty pageants are wrong.…
The evolution of media has evidently influenced the lives of females—young and old—across the globe. Peggy Orenstein, the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, attempts to capture the ongoing issues that affect the behaviors and mindsets of girls in America. She focuses on princesses, toy preference, media, children’s TV shows/movies, and the internet. She wants to apprehend the impact of images, ideas, and societal standards that girls absorb about what they must be, how they should act, and the specific role they take in a girlie mainstream culture.…
These spoiled children are the ones who squeal when they speak, rudely talk back to adults, and throw massive temper tantrums when they do not get their way. This disrespectful behavior is covered up by their pink Sunday dresses, matching shoes, perfect pigtails, and giant hair bows. These impolite children are only dressed in the finest clothes because their other, more formal title is “Little Miss Pageant Princess.” These princesses are regarded as the Alphas of all little girls. However, the Tinas only act out because they desire to be like their mother, the corresponding Alphas of women, the “Pageant…
Most children are exposed to ads and media multiple times on a daily basis. Seeing the ideas presented in these media forms over and over again has a big impact on how children’s social institutions are formed. In many ads and films targeted towards children there is strong gender differences. Boys are represented with the color blue and action, while girls are represented with pink, and have caring, supporting roles in most forms of media. Youth media impacts children’s understanding of their masculinity or femininity by placing stereotypes and gender roles in their heads that they are then pressured to abide by.…
Observation Paper: Early Childhood Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to observe a child between the ages of 2-16, while reviewing which stages of development they are in. By observing the child it helps retain information correlating with the class by having to go back and remember what was discussed. Understanding development is important because then you are aware which stages a child should be in.…
Television promotes strict gender roles, by presenting characters that most often display gender stereotyped behavior. Television shows that are targeted to male audiences often show boys as aggressive and strong, and girls are often portrayed as damsels in distress. Television shows become more gender-stereotyped with age, which can influence a stereotypic understanding of “gender roles, occupational roles, and gender-schematic processing” (Cherney 723). Teachers play a significant role in the development of gender socialization.…