Toddlers and Mother F***ing Tiaras

This is disgusting! These little girls should be taken away from their mothers. These mothers are sick themselves for putting their children through this. These kids don't understand what is going on. Cenk mentioned that kids were SNORTING pixie sticks. I guess this is why. The first time this subject got any attention was with the Jonbenet Ramsey case. This needs to stop. Let kids be kids. They grow up too fast already. This is like ringing the dinner bell for pedos. Just another breakdown of our society and rotting of "civilization."

If this is a pedophiles dream, and I believe it is, why isn't it called child pornography?

This is what happens when society runs short of natural remedies for an over population of urchins ; without evil witches and hags in the woods to turn them into pies and devour them and such,....parents just start to go a bit nuts from all that hyper abundance of squalid squealing and scurrying about !

- just give me that old fashioned rural Brothers Grim life !

Yepper,...."You DON'T know what you got, till its gone . . ."

So sad.

Several years ago someone did a documentary on this, and when I saw it,my reaction was exactly that of the author...and it reminded me of the Jonbenet Ramsey case...at the time, and just now again, I wondered if this insanity was somehow related to her death...

These people are obssessed to a frightening degree!!!

Whoa...way to talk about something that both horrifies and entertains us. I have a friend from college that I ran into this week, and I could smell the alcohol on her breath as she went on and on telling me about her daughter being crowned the something or other queen. She was in the store buying rhinestone studded crap for the big event. Her daughter had participated in pageants practically since she could walk. My friend is dead serious, and visibly glowing (might have been the alcohol) as she goes on and on about her daughter's coronation, as if the child has just won a Pulitzer. Your use of humor to talk about this, ironically, is the way most of us deal with what just doesn't seem to fit into a rational framework. I laughed reading your piece, laughed at my friend, and yet...you confront the very real exploitation going on in these pageants.

I think it would be interesting to interview the grown up version of the toddler pageant participant. From what I know of my friend's childhood, there was some real abuse in her home, often covered by extravagant purchases and an over emphasis on appearances. She seems to be genuinely clueless about the real value of training little girls to rely on their appearance, and quite frankly, I don't think the society we live in necessarily discourages the grown up version of that ideology. You don't have to look far to see the toddlers and tiaras frame of mind permeating our culture. On the one hand, we have a massive government initiative out there trying to recruit more females into science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and right alongside it, we have a consumer culture that, from a very young age, teaches females that they will be judged by their appearance. A cursory examination of women in politics reveals the reality of this cultural undercurrent as well...we tend to critique women candidates more closely on their appearances, rather than the content of their campaign. Hilary was a good example of being criticized for not looking like a pageant participant, but on the other hand, I think we are all still asking ourselves how the hell Sarah Palin got to the center of the political stage...but on some level, we know. And then there is Bachmann, whose talent portion of the pageant has devolved into a media portrayal of her corn dog eating skills. Perhaps we are all more than spectators in this sport.

Thought provoking piece...and very funny. +^d!

Glad i don't watch tv .

That show sensationalizes child abuse.

Have you noticed that the parents on Toddlers and Tiaras are either large women or ugly as mud fences or certifiably nuts? I am just saying. They are absolutely living their lost dreams through their poor children.

I hate this show, makes me sick to my stomach..those poor brainwashed children and their crazy mothers/fathers...
...next time on sick,sad world...

I'm fairly sure I developed and anger problem from writing this...

also hates that show.... And has no fucking idea how in such an authoritarian country these parents can do such irreparable damage to their children, yet I can't smoke a joint?

Hahah, absolutely hilarious. terrifying at the same time, but hilarious.