Cruelty to Children Alert
As my faithful readers know, I am a card-carrying SA Goon. (Link to the front page here.) A couple of days ago, somebody posted a thread about child beauty pageants. Thread title: Child Beauty Contest -- of the Damned!
Paul sees it first. "Oh ... my ... God. Kate, you've got to see this." He PMs me a link. I click. The first photo that comes up:
Aww. What a nice porcelain doll. Except it isn't a porcelain doll. It's a child so heavily Photoshopped that you can't even tell she's human anymore. [EDIT: I forgot to mention that Alli Beth (to your left) was the winner of the 19-35 month category. So she's somewhere between 1.5 and 3 years old.]The thread comments range from witty ("Seems the plastic skin look is in for the '05 summer child beauty pageant season...") to scared ("Their eyes look ... so dead!"). Somebody compared them to the woman who airbrushes stillborn babies (warning: rather graphic link shows before/after photos). Somebody got off on a tangent about a friend and his wife who named their kid "Aurora BoryAlice." And quite a few people mentioned JonBenet Ramsey ... although even she looked more real that these these freakily photo-chopped kids.
I'd love to rant about how unfair it is to these children, about how parents are teaching them that the standard of beauty is big anime eyes, airbrush tans and pore-free skin. But I'm not going to rant because I think I'd be stating the obvious.
So instead of ranting, I'm going to give you a few links of Photoshopped child monsters. Browse through them and be amazed. Or scared. Or a little of both.
I could go on but I'll spare you. As it stands, I'm going to have nightmares tonight about these damned Stepford children. ::shudders::
posted by Kate at 11:45 PM
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2 Comments:
The fact that people would do this to their kids is simply apalling. Not that I don't believe it, quite to the contrary. But it still sickens me. As a preschool teacher, I hold to the idea that, first and foremost, kids should be allowed to be kids. This is rather like making them to be little Mr. and Miss America's...
...another practice which I hold zero respect for.
these photos are really freeky! I showed them to my hole class and everyone agreed. The people in the phots look like dolls. Its horrible for the children under 3. They dont have a choice. Its wrong.
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