The article I read, “Toddlers in Tiaras” by Skip Hollandsworth is an in-depth reasoning as to why child beauty pageants are taking a toll on the children involved. Beauty pageants for children have been wildly popular for many years and have also been the topic of many worldwide conspiracies. Hollandsworth is trying to discuss how children are forced into child beauty pageants and how they show the sexuality of small children in a wrong way. Skip Hollandsworth brings about many situations to try and express his views and purpose to the many people he’s attempting to address.
When looking at exigency for the article, Hollandsworth probably watched the TV show “Toddlers and Tiaras” on TLC and was appalled by the behavior and sexuality of the children so he decided to address it in his own way. He also referenced the death of the young pageant girl,…show more content… Hollandsworth talks of how the little girls prance around the stage “looking like a baby Marilyn Monroe with makeup more suited to a woman several times [their] age” (Hollandsworth). One news anchor said that watching the pageant was like watching “kiddie porn” and was totally against it. Some people believed that the death of JonBenet Ramsey was orchestrated by a pedophile who could easily track her down just by watching her on TV. Hollandsworth is showing the cause and effect of a situation that shouldn’t have happened because the directors and producers of these pageants have been too careless to realize that these children are under aged and easy targets. The detective, Stacy Dittrich, states the producers are irresponsible because they “’are not only giving out the names of these children, but they also tell you what towns these little girls live in’”(Hollandsworth). Whose idea was it for little girls to be so sexualized and make them think it was ok and
