Bill the Butcher wrote:Lead Pipe wrote:If you put your 4 year old in a beauty contest, you gotta be guilty of something.
I was about to say something about that.
Stage parents are terrible. Just sickening. Anybody seen Little Miss Sunshine? I love that film, but the part when they're at the actual competition and saw the other girls there... I wanted to throw up.
So, peeker643 and I are in Vegas with the wives. We just finished eating and we head to the restroom. Guys take 10 seconds, girls 10 minutes as I'm sure you're aware. Well, long story short, Peeker and I walk out of the can right into a lobby where one of these contests just happens to be in intermission. Number one, you clouldn't feel like more of a pervert, two guys standing against the wall as these "contestants" mill around. But Christ on a pony, the Mothers of these girls looking each other up and down. Each mother dressed 20 years younger than they should. The make-up on these little girls. Parading them into the bathroom for a blush makeover, and probably a quick gag session. Holy Christ. As pathetic a scene as I've ever witnessed.
If you are entering your kid in a beauty pageant, it ain't for the kid, it's for you.