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‘Pull the Pin’ on children’s beauty pageants : Comments
By Catherine Manning, published 23/8/2011The beauty myth and children: making beauty a sexualised competition is unhealthy for children and society.
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'don't cut it in the looks department'? From one competition with a handful of people. Is it necessary for every little girl to think they are THE prettiest girl on the earth?
As I said,
'from a random referee, not much more than being penalised for a high tackle that was around the shoulder, or being given out Caught Behind when you KNOW you didn't knick it. Such an injustice is part of life. Sometimes you don't get picked for the rep team, even when you think you're good enough and other's agree. This is part of sport and good lessons for LIFE!'
That you think this should be so traumatic, for a girl to think that 3 other girls are prettier than them IN THE OPINION of a few judges that are STRANGERS, only highlights my point above. That portrays a very skewed and 'unhealthy' attitude to beauty. This isn't 'society', this is internal to the individual.
Society doesn't put such a premimum on looks YOU apparently do. Just as a parent can console a young boy who doesn't 'make it' in an athletic persuit based on a judgement of his abilities, so too in a beauty contest.
You have conceded 10% is about solely looks, and that there are other skills and benefits. What if the judge says that they need a bigger or faster player to play in the rep team? What's the big difference.
Man, it's any parents job to de-brief their kids and help them deal with a necessary character building part of life such as this.