Children's Beauty Pageants

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to Side Propposition, Today I stand for a future generation of healthy minded and healthy bodied young women, the proper growth and development of our children and our toddlers engaging in productive and harmless extra curricular activities. Today I will be arguing how Child Beauty Pageants do not impede, but complement everything side Proposition stands for But first we'll look at what Con has said so far "Beauty pageants are detrimental to the proper growth and development of a child's abilities" Pro did not give a reason to support this assertion. The only thing I could find was her saying "there's no concept". That's completely untrue, there are many concepts of pageants such as the skillfull application of makeup and hair styling (two very real proffessions) and any other talents that said child happens to possess. "Pageants create competitive and unfriendly surroundings" What is the difference between this and a debate tournament? Most tournaments are very competitive, that's the point of them. You need to tell me the difference between this and say a debate or soccer tournament. But pageants are actually less competitive than regular extra-curricular tournaments because there is no real direct clash or competition (as in a soccer tournament). The girls merely have to appeal to a judge, not physically outmaneuvre eachother as they would have to in a soccer tournament.Beauty pageants are less competitive than most extra-curricular tournaments. 'Children are taught false values and are harmed psychologically" Again, tell me how pride in self image and personal hygene are inherently bad things? You insult all Hair stylists, barbers, and make up artists by saying their industry is false. Girls (and boys) should be given the oppurtunity at a young age to participate in these industries. Also, please name me the phycological harms or gie reasons, I have nothing to work with but your unproven assertion. "Children are not old enough to understand that this is not the real world" Beauty pageants aren't supposed to be the real world..they are fun activities that encourage the values I have listed. That's like saying we should oppose debate tournaments because it gives children a false image of how politics work and make them all think they are the future Prime Ministers or Presidents. " Shows on this (ex. toddler & tiaras) glorify children's pageants - the money is used in the wrong places" We can all agree that the Moms on these shows are horrendous. But this problem speaks to the moms not the beauty pageants. Children are often pressured into scholarly excellence, excellence in sports and debate and all other types of abilties by insensitive parents for the wrong reasons. My First Point-Well more of an observation Con has failed to show the differenciating link between child pageants and any other form of competitive activity, and while I admire her passion she needs to stop simply asserting bold claims without backing them up. She has failed to show why Child Beauty Pageants are inherently bad. We can all agree that parents shouldn't pressure their children to go to extreme lenghts to succeed at something, and I am no fan of young girls wearing make-up, but Con has not shown why Child Beauty Pageants inherently cause these harms, rather than the parents. Remember, a girl doesn't have to wear makeup at a pageant if she has natural beauty.