>Pageant Shock
>I did it. I went to a baby pageant yesterday. You’ll have to wait for next week’s Nashville Scene column for the details, but I will say that this man was there, along with his brand new 2-year-old protege. And if the video doesn’t say it all, then I don’t know what does.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLAXmTHvU44]
>OK I seriously thought that was just a very masculine woman at first. Scary yet frighteningly funny to watch at the same time. And would I EVER do that to my daughter? OH HELL NO!!!!
>Why? Why would you make us watch something like that? I thought we were friends? AHAHAHAHA!
>Can’t. stop. watching. over. and over. again.How did you get that video of my ex boyfriend?
>uh…CREEPY!
>Oh my stars!!!
>I second what ‘she’ and ‘stefanie t’ said.(had to delete the previous post for abysmal spelling)
>Oh no. Tell me it isn’t so. Tell me you didn’t attend one of those “displays”.
>So. So. Very. Wrong.The sway. The shirt. The prance. Help!
>Oh my lord. That’s so many shades of wrong.
>holy fucking shit! that man is going to haunt me in my dreams!!
>Please tell me this isn’t real. I just saw Little Miss Sunshine and this is way scarier.
>I just watched Living Dolls this weekend and I felt desperately filthy after watching all the creeplor adults in the film. I can’t wait to hear your take on Captain Creepy.
>Oh my. The look on Mom’s face at the very end said it all. What the hell is this man DOING?
>The scary thing is that pageant mommies are probably paying this guy 50 bucks and hour so that their little princesses can dance and prance JUST LIKE HIM. *shiver*
>Slightly frightened …
>arrrgghhhhhhh !!
>Color me Skeeeered….
>Papa Joe Simpson?!
>That is my favorite all time pageantry video. I couldn’t stop watching that HBO special when it was on.
>SOOOOOOOOOO.VERY.VERY.WRONG!
>That is just WAY too creepy. My first thought was…”Is the guy on drugs?”
>Ummmmmm……….no comment. No really you made me laugh, and after the horrendous awful weekend at work, that was no easy feet.Speaking of feet, mine are killing me! One the rotten things about being a nurse!I better just go…..
>Dude. I went to SCHOOL with that man. Well, ok. Not THAT man. But his twin brother.
>Dude. I went to SCHOOL with that man. Well, ok. Not THAT man. But his twin brother.
>Did you ever see that study about women’s photos in magazines, juxtaposed against photos of men posing similarly? The point was that women often are taught to pose (or comport themselves) in submissive or “baby” ways, whereas men are taught to pose or comport themselves in straightforward, assertive ways. This video seems to emphasize the disparity. (Oh, and yikes on the whole pageant thing.) ;^)
>I guess it takes all kinds, right? But I think that poor girl is thinking to herself “Dad, c’mon, if you really want to you can perform in drag and I’ll be your biggest supporter!”.Carrie
>The mom looked like she had more testosterone than the choreographer. The 4-year-old probably did too.
>I think the kid gave him a “1” on a scale of 1-10.
>Honestly,did he really expect that little girl to do what he just did. She has more dignity I suspect.
>Sweet fancy Elvis.
>fook mi.
>Freak!
>SCAAAARRYYYY….
>oh my good god.Nightmare tonight, I think.
>WTF??? He’s a freak of nature.
>I shouldn’t have watched this so close to bedtime. I’m going to have nightmares now!
>I think the look on the kid’s face said it all – “Are you serious???”
>oh. my. god.
>I think I just peed my pants!
>I think child pageants should be outlawed. Seriously. All they do is play into the warped fantasies of pedophiliacs. The parents who push their children into this are seriously deluded. You cannot capture some obscure past dream through your children. I began doing theatre when I was 11 years old. And I had to fight to do it – my parents thought acting equaled prostitution. I loved it – so I made sure I kept involved. But there were many other mothers who gave old Mama Rose from ‘Gypsy’ a run for her money. One in particular I still remember. She was terrible! Her child was always done up like a porcelain doll – even when the girl hit her teens. I was reminded of ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane’ – it was that bad. The girl would sit glassy-eyed, silent – while her mom lambasted some director or producer. Then the girl would get up and perform on cue – like a trained seal. Shirley Temple material – way out of sync for her age and our generation (1973??). I always think of that poor girl every time I see some tarted up 6 year old pretending to be a sexualized adult. It’s wrong. Period.
>God, I loved that documentary!!!I still watch it every time it is on. Fascinating.
>Oh, I remember this guy from an HBO special. He was definitly paid more than $50 per hour by the moms (I saw very few fathers around on the documentary…sorry) if his home was any indication. Is he odd? Perhaps, by some people’s standards. But what I don’t understand is why are there so many parents out there paying him, and many others like him, the big bucks to be their child’s “coach.” I don’t find him as wrong as the parents and their so-called parenting.
>Um.Wow.That. is. so. scary.***SHUDDER***
>HAHAHA!!!That’s was the strangest thing….I’ll have to watch it again.
>That poor little sweetykins looked terrified of him! Good God, I was too! He was enjoying that wayyyyyy too much.
>A note from a past pagaent mom: While most parents go way, way, way overboard. I don’t think all pageants are bad. My daughter was in several up til the age of 2, when she no longer had fun with them, so we stopped. As long as the child likes it and is doing it for themselves and not because mom is back stage shoving them into the spotlight I think they are ok…Believe me I saw enough horror stories to fill pages of what some of those girls went through. We got our daughter a present if she managed to make it through the day with only a few temper fits.
>A few temper fits? Honey, if she was having temper fits, she wasn’t enjoying herself.Seeing these girls for myself, I know unequivocally that pageants for the three-and-under set are a horrible idea. These girls had clearly been trained not to move a muscle offstage, lest they mess up their hair or makeup, and that is not approporiate behavior to teach a toddler. They need freedom to run and play without worrying about their freakin’ hair!I’m sure you’re a nice person, but I had an even more violent reaction to seeing this shit up close and in person than I had expected.
>Are you KIDDING me??? What the hey?This would never happen in CT.
>OK, that is just scary. That poor girl. That poor mamma. That poor person behind the camera taking that image.At the same time, hahahahaha!
>I, too, am compelled to watch “Living Dolls” EVERY time HBO shows it. Can’t. Help. Myself. Alex too. He is beyond horrified by this stuff.And I know I’ve said it before, but I can’t stop thinking (commenter M’liss can back me up) of the parallels between this and showing poodles and other “big hair” breeds. A poodle in his/her “show drag” is not allowed to move much, can’t be touched anywhere that would muss the hair, and above all DOES NOT SCRATCH OR SHAKE. The big difference? It’s all over in a few minutes, and as soon as we’re done, our poodles are allowed to be DOGS again. And once the championship is completed, they get to run nekkid (i.e. with short short hair) for the rest of their doggy lives. I have to lying across my feet right now.My point being, I treat my dogs better than some of those poor little girls from “Living Dolls.”