I think it'll be like that Ken doll with the covert gay following. She looks like a drag queen, I'm saying. Waylon Smithers will own five signed dolls. #amywinehousebarbie
Wow. Not enough that dolls set an unreasonable standard for realistic body image. Now they come with an unrealistically high expecation for hardcore 24/7 partying too? How could little Sally even hope to measure up? #amywinehousebarbie
#1. If she didn't look like her top was going to fall off, I might accept this as a "Victorian" look for some young miss living in Murray Hill.
#2. This is what Carrie Prejean still sees when she closes her eyes and repeats "no sex tape...no sex tape...no sex tape...no gays married...no sex tape..." PS. The dog hates America.
Ugh, I hate it when people invoke the name of Lewis Carroll when the subject of young girls comes up. In my brain, he is a sensitive genius and not a child molester! Sticking my fingers in my ears now - LA LA LA can't hear you!! #highglitzbook
Lewis Carroll was also arrested for sleeping in the bushes next to the real Alice's house, and her parents put a restraining order against him, so like, maybe he's not the greatest example of an adult who understands little girls or not being a giant creep and exploiting children. #highglitzbook
The 9 year old in #3 has no business making a sex face like that! Someone had to teach her to pose like that, and that is WAAAAYYYY not cool.
Dress up is awesome. When it involves wearing old dresses of your sister/cousin/babysitter and smearing your moms make up on your face. Not when it involves rhinestones, acrylic nails (which made me actually flinch) and extensions. #highglitzbook
I feel like I spend the majority of my time cutting my kid's nails so he stops clawing at his face and looking like he lost a knife fight and yet somewhere there is a mom who attaches acrylic claws to her own child's nails. She must make her wear mittens when she's not competing. #highglitzbook
I take issue with Greene's comments, though. I've got no problem, as a feminist, with dress-up and elaborate fantasies of little girls that involve make-up, hair, dresses, etc. I have a problem with it putting families into debt, becoming a 'career' rather than a game, and involving things like 'falsies' (breasts, that is) and crash diets for 7-year-olds. #highglitzbook
@Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: And it's being turned into a competition. I had a dress-up trunk as a child. It was from the Lillian Vernon catalogue, probably cost about $40, and was the best present ever. My friends and I spent hours in it. and guess what? We never once worried about who was prettier #highglitzbook
@colormeroutine: Because there were no creepy adults lurking around, judging you on your ability to get yourself up in costume. Probably an older relative told you how nice you both looked, or maybe encouraged you in the fantasy world you were creating ("Oh look, it's two princesses, come to visit us.")
When people say these pageants are just a glorified form of dress-ups, I always wonder what they would think of a mother who encouraged random strangers to come into her home to watch her children play. #highglitzbook
@Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: exactly. No one is saying little girls shouldn't play dress up if they choose to do so, it's the big business aspect of it all, that and like Tracie noted, many of them start at 6 months old. #highglitzbook
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#2. This is what Carrie Prejean still sees when she closes her eyes and repeats "no sex tape...no sex tape...no sex tape...no gays married...no sex tape..." PS. The dog hates America.
#3 just killed Blofield. AND SHE WILL KILL AGAIN.
#4 is actually Strawberry Shortcake's fucked-up cousin Cherry Tart.
#5 is the missing Huckabee.
#6 is hoping that her exposed navel will distract us from the fact that she just chewed a hole in her hat. #highglitzbook
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That little girl is sad beyond her years.
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Dress up is awesome. When it involves wearing old dresses of your sister/cousin/babysitter and smearing your moms make up on your face. Not when it involves rhinestones, acrylic nails (which made me actually flinch) and extensions. #highglitzbook
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The better to pick their noses with, Tracie! #highglitzbook
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I take issue with Greene's comments, though. I've got no problem, as a feminist, with dress-up and elaborate fantasies of little girls that involve make-up, hair, dresses, etc. I have a problem with it putting families into debt, becoming a 'career' rather than a game, and involving things like 'falsies' (breasts, that is) and crash diets for 7-year-olds. #highglitzbook
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When people say these pageants are just a glorified form of dress-ups, I always wonder what they would think of a mother who encouraged random strangers to come into her home to watch her children play. #highglitzbook
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