I’m so glad that VH1 decided to present Little Beauties (warning: very creepy photo of made up little girls), because my “evidence of the decline of civilization” category needs more posts. I think beauty pageants for women are sick. They aren’t talent competitions. They aren’t even scholarship competitions as they claim (ask any winner whether she got the money she was promised). But I think it’s infinitely more sick when beauty pageants are for six-year-old girls, and when the practice is then glamorized in a “light-hearted look”:

Little Beauties: Ultimate Kiddie Queen Showdown is a one-hour documentary special that will take a light-hearted look into the wonderful world of children’s beauty pageants through the eyes of four, precocious six-year old girls. This documentary reveals the humor and love behind an American tradition; the always colorful characters on the pageant circuit; and the “sparkle” it takes to win a crown.

 You really can’t start too young with the commodification and sexualization of women.

Via Feministing