The contest Toddlers & Tiaras (“Princesitas”) is an American reality show that airs in which girls and boys compete in a beauty pageant imitating the elders in the good, and in the bad. Especially in the bad.
The show is broadcast since 2009, but it is difficult to imagine a member of the jury or the public of the children's contest saying “Oh my God, he wears heels and is painted as a door… What a horror, why they will have done the manicure french? When is this girl going to school? ”…
On the other hand, the fact that a girl has come out in her imitation of Olivia Newton John in the movie "Grease" with a fake cigarette in her hand has made jurors and public to be patidifuso before such aberration.
This is the small Destiny, four years old, who, pushed and prepared by her mother, with the supposed approval of the whole family, goes to the stage disguised as Sandy and among all the accessories, lacquers, permanent and leathers appears a cigarette to imitate the final scene of "Grease".
Here you can see the video that gloats in the great sin, that the girl in her costume add the cigarette, and above all that the mother emphasizes the little girl before going on stage "Do not forget to smoke":
The scandalized pubic, a member of the ojiplático jury ... it seems that the world was over on set! I can't help wondering if the effect would have been the same if the boy or girl in the contest had come out dressed up as a cowboy and the mother reminded him that he had to shoot with his toy gun in his performance.
Leaving aside that, although I don't know the mechanics of reallity, I imagine that before the performance someone supervises what is going to be seen on stage, so even you might think that that detail of the cigar was left intentionally, we already know that the contests are doing very well with the controversy ...
Does anyone think of the children of these programs?
This type of reallity seems to me negligible in its attempt to make girls adult, to mitigate the most superficial part of people, and especially because it will not do any psychological good to the little ones, leaving aside the physical damages that some habitual practices can cause them.
Because this girl maybe has gone on stage maybe with shaved eyebrows, with heels that affect the development of her feet and her back ... The winners of these contests can get scary because of their denatured appearance, so artificial, so far away to what a girl should be.
And these programs can also be negligible because children see that walking with a cigarette, drinking alcohol, with a gun ... is normal. And normal want to win at the expense of everything, striving only in appearances to achieve it.
Undoubtedly those who move the threads in the program (and on the television network that is broadcast) have lost any sense of social responsibility by showing these types of shows. What is worth is the morbidity for the morbidity, the audience, regardless of the damage they can do to those involved in the contest and to the spectators.
I have no idea what time it is issued Toddlers & Tiaras on television, but at least it shouldn't be in protected children's hours. I personally don't want that example for my daughters. In recent decades there are studies that demonstrate the influence that television has on children's behavior, especially wanting to imitate its content.
And while social sensitivity to violence in the media has increased, it seems difficult to find some cartoons that eliminate it from its contents. To me, what is exhibited in this type of child beauty programs seems to me somewhat violent, in the sense that I am violent that some girls are taken to these scenarios by their parents at the expense of whatever.
So yes, that the girl goes out on the television show with a fake cigarette In my hand it seems just as bad as if I did it with a beer bottle or a toy gun. But I think you shouldn't forget the rest, right? Although of course, we cannot expect people who "judge" these girls to see the rest of the evils ... Or those who take them to the contest, of course.
