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By: Laura ElderHour 1

Child Beauty Pageants: Parents Exploiting Their

Children

What’s the issue?• Parents exploit and sexualize their kids• Why are pageants bad for children?– It’s not the child’s decision– It teaches poor morals

• Why do parents do this to their children?– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1HRfy4xxko&feature=channel

• I chose this topic because it is:– Controversial• Beauty Pageants… Good or bad?

– Current• Ever seen Toddlers & Tiaras? Little Miss Perfect?

– Interesting

Weirdest Pageant Moments: infoMania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzgD1p_vvQA

•What makes this video satire?– Sarcastic tone– Burlesque

“Stripper poles now allowed in pageants”

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i58869

Starting in 2005 with a request from 4-year old Sophia Clarkman's mother, Jane Clarkman, to include "talent poles" within segments of nationwide beauty competitions, the hot topic has suddenly become all the rage, literally, among players of the child pageantry world. . .

"My daughter has an acrobatic talent that just happens to be doing tricks around a pole. It has nothing to do with stripping," she tells media reporters. . .

"She just loves to dance, loves to move her body, and loves to be the hottest, like all the other girls, don't let them kid you," exclaims Clarkman. "They're all just jealous that they can't spin as well as my girl, or have never tried because their mommies won't let them. Sophia can do the bridge, the straight leg grip, everything really, because her body is so young and flexible.”

•What makes this article satire?

–Exaggeration–Understatement–Speaker

Clip from South Parkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfASofO-NMA&feature=related

•What makes this video clip satire?– Irony–Caricature

Caricature:

• Exaggerates stereotypes of pageant participants

and their parents:– Average looking parents

doting on daughter– Mother looks ‘determined’– Daughter has an extremely

made-up appearance

Another Caricature:

• Exaggerates pageant girl’s appearance: HUGE hair, globs of makeup

• Portrays a stereotypical pageant mother (fussing over daughter’s appearance)

Bruno: Photo Shoothttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RcJyyfozvA

•What makes this video clip satire?– Exaggeration

Jimmy and Guillermo: Toddlers & Tiarashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGIQMWXEf6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTQcyieODJU&feature=channel

•What makes this video satire?– Video is a parody– Exaggeration– Understatement