Glamour Babies

If you haven't been keeping up with Suburban Turmoil and her entries on Toddler Beauty Pageants, you MUST! It's getting heated up over there, and it's fun to watch!

Her descriptions of the mothers berating their children, the makeup and false eyelashes, the fake tans. The discomfort you can't help but feel as you hear of a frustrated mother taking the stage to remove a child who is not performing.

These types of pageants are horrible. We talk about women being objectified. This is where it starts. If we are worried about our children being kidnapped from the streets, we need to take a moment and consider how many times we as a people have gone out of our way to make them seem older than they are, and to foist adult secondary sexual characteristics upon them.

False eyelashes? Makeup? I've seen that makeup. That ain't stage makeup! (30+ years of stage performing says I know!) That's glamour makeup, and you folks are out of your mind! Keep an eye on this, and the marvelous blog. She makes me laugh whenever I read it!