Toddlers In Tiaras Summary

Beauty standards are a common struggle in girls and always have been. Throughout the years the standards have changed, and they are now becoming more prominent in young girls. Research has been done, and it has shown that young girls no longer want to do “little” girl activities; but want to change their looks, wait for their prince charming, and become big girls. Stephanie Hanes, with a background in play therapy, wrote an article concerning Disney Princesses effects on young girls. Hanes has a young daughter who is not herself anymore because she “is waiting on her prince”; a concerned and confused mother is able to create an article pointing out her research on what has changed in her three year old daughter, and it all comes back to Disney …show more content…
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 quote not only shows that a little girl wants to do pageants but she isn’t forced to practice like most outsiders believe, this shows pageants are not a bad thing for girls to do. Aside from the positive aspects, many negative quotes were added into the article. He even interviewed former pageant contestants, and they shared how pageants hurt them in the long run. Although Skip Hollandsworth doesn’t come out and say that pageants are a good thing for little girls. It can easily be assumed that by adding in numerous negative accounts of what has happened to girls that were involved in pageants at one time, that he is against little girls being in pageants. Hollandsworth didn’t argue which side he thought was right, but let the readers decide for