10 years later....

Alex · 08-17-2006, 10:10 AM

If you are made uneasy by the child pageant industry I recommend (again) seeing Little Miss Sunshine. It completely and perfectly skewers it.

I was channel surfing the other night and ended up watching about 20 minutes of an episode of Dr. Phil about it. The perspectives of the mothers were interesting. And in a very strong way seemed the gender flip side of the father who pushes his son to excel at sports.

Stan4dSteph · 08-17-2006, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

If you are made uneasy by the child pageant industry I recommend (again) seeing Little Miss Sunshine. It completely and perfectly skewers it.

Did you ever see the HBO America Undercover documentary "Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen?" Here's a newspaper article about it.

It was a rather disturbing look at the child pageant industry.

The Pop Warner cheerleaders have begun to practice on the fields near where I play soccer. I find preteens performing sexed up cheer routines to be inappropriate.

08-17-2006, 10:10 AM	#1
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	If you are made uneasy by the child pageant industry I recommend (again) seeing Little Miss Sunshine. It completely and perfectly skewers it. I was channel surfing the other night and ended up watching about 20 minutes of an episode of Dr. Phil about it. The perspectives of the mothers were interesting. And in a very strong way seemed the gender flip side of the father who pushes his son to excel at sports.
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