Glamour Babies
September 20th, 2006 | by Vinny |If you haven’t been keeping up with Suburban Turmoil and her entries on Toddler Beauty Pageants, you MUST! It’s getting heated up over there, and it’s fun to watch!
Her descriptions of the mothers berating their children, the makeup and false eyelashes, the fake tans. The discomfort you can’t help but feel as you hear of a frustrated mother taking the stage to remove a child who is not performing.
These types of pageants are horrible. We talk about women being objectified. This is where it starts. If we are worried about our children being kidnapped from the streets, we need to take a moment and consider how many times we as a people have gone out of our way to make them seem older than they are, and to foist adult secondary sexual characteristics upon them.
False eyelashes? Makeup? I’ve seen that makeup. That ain’t stage makeup! (30+ years of stage performing says I know!) That’s glamour makeup, and you folks are out of your mind! Keep an eye on this, and the marvelous blog. She makes me laugh whenever I read it!
4 Responses to “Glamour Babies”
By on Sep 22, 2006 | Reply
Oh I have defintely been keeping up over there. I can’t get enough of Lindsay. And she is so dead on with those pageants! Sick.
By on Sep 22, 2006 | Reply
Yikes. I see a lot of related behavior here in tony Westchester, NY. It makes me hope my daughter goes punk until she’s 25.
By on Sep 25, 2006 | Reply
did you hear about Cindy Crawford’s daughter posing for that bathing suit company…topless—the girl is like 8 years old or something insane like that…I just don’t get it.
By on Sep 26, 2006 | Reply
I hadn’t until you mentioned it. Now I’ll be skipping lunch. You can see it at http://hollywood.outsidethebeltway.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/cindycrawford2.jpg
(sorry- I don’t have the head to code it right now…)
I appreciate that Crawford’s daughter is a little girl, and 2 piece bathing suits are just fine. A variety of things move this from the “cute family picture” realm to the “someone needs to wake up” category-
1- The missing top piece, especially with the arms crossed in mock embarassment.
2- The tatoo, temporary or not.
3- The apparent emulation of a traditional adult SI/Maxim modeling shot, including the shell necklace.
Is it at it’s heart a pornographic photo? No. Does it push the envelope? Yes. Would I have it on my coffee table? No chance.