Should Child Beauty Pageants Be Banned?

On the other hand, Orenstein contradicts herself and discredits herself she starts talking about how she angry she was about simple things that just triggered her. She begins to to rant about how the companies use children and mold them to their will in order to make money. She uses stories about how “When Mulan does appear, she typically is in the kimonolike hanfu, which makes her miserable”(328). She criticizes how the Disney has warped kids into only wanting what has become gender specific and shows that is they want the princesses to give off a certain princess look which is more frail and weak instead of mulan 's battle gear they show her in a dress that never made her feel like herself. Furthermore, Orenstein continues to complain about how even in the shows where the girls are supposed to be more of a tomboy, they find ways to bring in the princess culture.

In “What's Wrong with Cinderella?”, Peggy Orenstein retaliates against the princess culture that bombards her daughter's life. Princesses, it seems, dominate the market for toys to young girls due to their inexplicable appeal to being pretty, pink and - as most girls see - perfect. As a feminist mother, Orenstein feels the need to rebel against this not-so-sudden craze that attracts her daughter's attention. The author assumes that the subliminal messages presented to her daughter's developing mind aren't beneficial to her future expectations in life. Because of this, she critiques the faults of princesshood in order to demonstrate the possible detrimental impacts that the princess culture may have on a young girl.

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” -Oscar Wilde The two stories Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun they both capture the image that you aren’t always going to agree with your parents. You should always be yourself and sometimes you have to do things to make the ones you love happy. The narrators call out their parents for being selfish and only caring about what they want. When in reality their parents are doing everything they can form their kids. In both Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, both narrators clearly have points of views different from their parents.

He goes on to show the audience the ways that the provocative behavior of the girls can reap negative attention from all types of people. He writes, “It’s impossible to look at these photos and not see a terribly exploited little girl” (Hollandsworth 2). Pageants also teach the girls at a very young age, to be focused only on appearance. The target audience would mostly be southern mothers and grandmothers who tend to allow their daughters to sign up for the contests. The context of the article focuses on how everyone enjoys seeing these girls perform on stage.

This helps get his point across. Hollandsworth’s article explores the world of child pageantry and attempts to convince the readers that the girls participating are being exploited and hypersexualized on stage. The article also talks to former pageant girls like Brooke Breedwell, forced into pageantry by her mother at only 3 months but quit at age 8 because of what she was missing out on a normal life. Shadowing the girls makes the article more interesting because it is coming right from the person who is a part of that world. Hollandsworth successfully fulfilled his purpose of showing the world that these girls are being overexposed and hypersexualized because of the world they are

Upon the revelation that the Hutchinson household has been selected for the lottery, Hutchinson’s attitude automatically shifts. The confidence she once had to be late to the lottery, show up not dressed to society’s standards and dominate her husband leaves the second she realizes she is at risk. She immediately ridicules Mr. Summers for not giving her husband enough time to select his paper despite his years of experience conducting the ritual. In her manic state she attempts to save herself at her own daughters risk when she yells “There’s Don and Eva… Make them take their chance!” (Jackson 4). Tessie puts her own daughter under the bus in attempt to save herself.

Rosie goes against her mother, Lily, by getting a nose piercing. Lily thinks they look horrible, but Rosie doesn’t want to give her mother the satisfaction of doing what she’s told. This shows the idea of ‘teenage identity’ because Rosie is discovering herself and her likes and interests. 2 – Running Away Rosie and Asher run away to W.A. without telling anybody.

because of a situation about a burn book, and the first thing that comes out of her mouth is words of manipulation towards the principle saying” I don’t think my father, the inventor of toaster strudel, would be too happy to hear about this.” Gretchen believes that she is in a higher class than other people and that with her parent’s wealth and fame she could get herself out of trouble no matter what she does. The conflict theory states that there is always tension between groups of people because there is one group wanting to run and rule over the other. In Mean Girls, we see this happen with the Plastics, which we could compare to the bourgeoisie during Karl Marx 's time. The movie explains perfectly what some people in a higher class compared to a lower class believes that everything revolves around them and the other students that are considered lower class needs to obey their every single command. Instead of using wealth to get out of trouble, another teenage “Plastic girl, Regina uses her property as her power.

Curley’s wife is over stereotyped in such a way that it helps define her character and foreshadow her demise. She is self obsessed and she builds herself up by dragging other people down. Curly’s wife never achieves her dream because she trapped herself in an awful marriage to escape her family and did not think about the consequences. When she was younger, Curley’s wife desperately wanted to be a famous actor. People told her that she had incredible talent and was a “natural” at acting, and she looked past the possibility that these could all just be good pick-up lines, weaving herself a web of lies (88).

Sexist dress codes, shaming young girls for our country’s high teen pregnancy rate, sexual harassment, domestic violence are just a few ways how women are treated unjustly in our society. Dress Codes Dress codes in school systems are one of the largest one-sided and unjust issues in today’s society. Maureen Downey explains how “schools waste a lot of time enforcing dress codes, most of which focus on preventing young girls from distracting young boys” (2014. para 1). It is beyond unfair that girls are forbidden from wearing certain clothing articles to ensure that the immature boys next to them focus on their work instead of

Pelton resigned solely because her students complained to their parents, who then decided to defend their students who were already in the wrong. This allows for children to grow up believing that they can cheat and get away with it. These children then spread this ideology to their friends who are also beginning to think it is okay to cheat. All these children are therefore growing up believing that it is okay to cheat; they then teach their own children that cheating is an acceptable behavior. This results in a national decline in integrity because the upcoming generations are being raised with the ideology that it is appropriate for them to

Adolescence can be a hazardous and perplexing time and for teens, girls especially, and they do not deserve to have their authority figures teach them that their bodies and their natural human desires are things that are shameful. No adult should teach a child that they should cover or hide their bodies in disgrace. For preteens and young adults, living in one 's own skin is already hard enough, the added disrespect is not at all necessary or helpful. Abstinence only curriculums often promote sexism and can leave young people, especially girls, with the impressions that doing something that is very natural somehow degrades them, lessens their worth, or makes them dirty. This is detrimental to not only the way women view themselves but also to the way that men perceive female sexuality.

The parents of children who don’t give their kids love and affection, will end up with insecure teenagers with poisoned minds and heartbroken souls. Take the time to show your child how truly extraordinary they are and how amazing they can become one day. Teenagers don’t deserve to be under the pressure of our society telling them they should be something they 're not. This generation is more important than anyone could ever imagine. Don’t let our children lose their sense of how amazing they honestly are just because somebody didn’t like their picture on facebook and they decided to post a hurtful comment on the picture.

Parents should know what is best for their children as they grow up, and should know what is right or wrong for young children to do so. Competing in Child Beauty Pageants can affects a child’s development because it take away children childhood by forcing them to act and look like adult. For many years, child beauty pageants has been going on for a long time, with that parents still seems to force and not knowing the affects on the child. Parents should know that by letting their children join beauty pageants can exploit and also sexualize young girls. Which brought us to the question, Are parents doing the right thing or they just wanted to have their childhood back that they never get to have?

“I can’t believe they would call us in on a dress code violation,” Connie fumed, “What dress code!? I’ve never heard anything about the school having a dress code-” “Well and fighting-” Steven rubbed the back of his neck. How do you explain to kids it 's not okay to fight when that’s what their whole family does everyday? “Citrine’s clothes are perfectly suited to her lifestyle, so she likes to bare her gem, she’s eleven for crying out loud-” “Do you think Cairn got into it again with Bullion?” “I hope not, we can’t afford to-” “-or maybe that Vince kid,” Steven muttered as he held open the door for Connie to enter the school. “Maybe Pearl was right, maybe we should look back into homeschool-” “Morion’s doing so well though,” Steven took her