Feeling really disgusted and gross after looking up child beauty pageants

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I don't even remember why I looked them up, but some of the images show little girls in bikinis or provocative clothes and it horrifies me. I kept on reading some articles on the subject, maybe out of a morbid curiosity. I flicked through the search results, I don't know why I kept looking, I think I wanted to know how bad it was. I hovered over one of the bikini images and it was for a petition to ban them. I signed the petition but I feel almost dirty by having seen some of those pictures.

I understand that not all pageants are equal, but kids shouldn't be made to look or act like adults. Sorry for the rant, my emotions are a bit heightened. I just don't understand how people could be comfortable with their little ones being dressed and photographed like that. At the very least dress them by their age!

In some countries, these types of images might even be considered child inappropriate content if they are deemed to be sexualising children.
 

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but kids shouldn't be made to look or act like adults.

Yes exactly. Those things disgust me very much.

Absolutely disgraceful.

I can’t believe some parents do this to their kids and brainwash the kids to enjoy it, those kids have Stocholm syndrome..
Kids are kids. Whatever you do to push child to be anything more than a child is in my opinion abuse.
 
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Yes exactly. Those things disgust me very much.

Absolutely disgraceful.

I can’t believe some parents do this to their kids and brainwash the kids to enjoy it, those kids have Stocholm syndrome..
Kids are kids. Whatever you do to push child to be anything more than a child is in my opinion abuse.

Absolutely, children should be allowed to be children.
 
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I don't even remember why I looked them up, but some of the images show little girls in bikinis or provocative clothes and it horrifies me. I kept on reading some articles on the subject, maybe out of a morbid curiosity. I flicked through the search results, I don't know why I kept looking, I think I wanted to know how bad it was. I hovered over one of the bikini images and it was for a petition to ban them. I signed the petition but I feel almost dirty by having seen some of those pictures.

I understand that not all pageants are equal, but kids shouldn't be made to look or act like adults. Sorry for the rant, my emotions are a bit heightened. I just don't understand how people could be comfortable with their little ones being dressed and photographed like that. At the very least dress them by their age!

In some countries, these types of images might even be considered child inappropriate content if they are deemed to be sexualising children.

I'm the parent to a child that participate in that kind of event and I find this post offensing.

Thank you for taking it down.

Bless you.
 
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