Hollllllllyyyyyyyyyyyy Shit!

How the hell did I miss this show????????!!!!!! This shit is GOLD.

What a didaster. These poor kids, but I can't help but laugh at the shit. OMG, its my new fave.

Look at THESE people!!!

We watch this mess every week.

JerseyKRS said:

The best part is the reaction of all the hosts.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

JerseyKRS said:

The best part is the reaction of all the hosts.

leah rimini looks like she's in pain.

JerseyKRS said:

Why am I picturing cborgie doing this number...and in that outfit?

johnart said:

JerseyKRS said:

Why am I picturing cborgie doing this number...and in that outfit?

JerseyKRS said:

johnart said:

Why am I picturing cborgie doing this number...and in that outfit?

I hope I'm imagining and it's not some sort of repressed DC meetup memory.

johnart said:

We watch this mess every week.

It's on tomorrow at tennnnn. I'm now adding it to my reg weekly shows.

johnart said:

JerseyKRS said:

I hope I'm imagining and it's not some sort of repressed DC meetup memory.

it's part of the new play, act three i think....

TotalANXiousNESS said:

johnart said:

We watch this mess every week.

It's on tomorrow at tennnnn. I'm now adding it to my reg weekly shows.

If you have Netflix (I don't know if it's on demand) you should look up the past seasons.

Brooklyn is the shit! Amazingly well-adjusted given the shit these parents put these kids through.

Makenzie, however... I will fight a child. I would punch her like a dude. That ain't a child that's a drunken longshoreman.

JerseyKRS said:

johnart said:

I hope I'm imagining and it's not some sort of repressed DC meetup memory.

it's part of the new play, act three i think....

johnart said:

Makenzie, however... I will fight a child. I would punch her like a dude. That ain't a child that's a drunken longshoreman.

fan-flipping-tastic.

JerseyKRS said:

johnart said:

Makenzie, however... I will fight a child. I would punch her like a dude. That ain't a child that's a drunken longshoreman.

fan-flipping-tastic.

I'm here to make your world a better place.

johnart said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

It's on tomorrow at tennnnn. I'm now adding it to my reg weekly shows.

If you have Netflix (I don't know if it's on demand) you should look up the past seasons.

Brooklyn is the shit! Amazingly well-adjusted given the shit these parents put these kids through.

Makenzie, however... I will fight a child. I would punch her like a dude. That ain't a child that's a drunken longshoreman.

I did watch the ones that are on demand. Shes the demon child right???

Shit, I feel like the worlds greatest mom when I see this little girl in action. And her Mom, is just like..........she doesn't do ANYTHING about it. Shit.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

johnart said:

If you have Netflix (I don't know if it's on demand) you should look up the past seasons.

Brooklyn is the shit! Amazingly well-adjusted given the shit these parents put these kids through.

Makenzie, however... I will fight a child. I would punch her like a dude. That ain't a child that's a drunken longshoreman.

I did watch the ones that are on demand. Shes the demon child right???

Shit, I feel like the worlds greatest mom when I see this little girl in action. And her Mom, is just like..........she doesn't do ANYTHING about it. Shit.

Her mom can't even hold her head upright or look up. She's like in a fuckin STUPID COMA.

johnart said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

I did watch the ones that are on demand. Shes the demon child right???

Shit, I feel like the worlds greatest mom when I see this little girl in action. And her Mom, is just like..........she doesn't do ANYTHING about it. Shit.

Her mom can't even hold her head upright or look up. She's like in a fuckin STUPID COMA.

Is her mom single? I didn't see the dad at all. I'm always curious to see the fathers on this show. Mainly cause I can't believe they allow some of the shit that goes on.

Pageants are one thing, but this is taking it to a whole 'nother level.

The one chic on the one episode was saying the reason she had a kid was to put her in pageants. And when the girls win less than the parents were hoping for they don't even clap or smile or sheer for the kids. They act all disappointed. It's really sad. My heart breaks for the kids.

any father that let's their daughter's mother do this shit is either a moron or a child molester. my bet is on the latter.

JerseyKRS said:

any father that let's their daughter's mother do this shit is either a moron or a child molester. my bet is on the latter.

Last (or this) week's episode had this Air Force dad who was like a fuckin freak pageant dad and all I could say was I wouldn't leave my child alone in a room with that MF.

johnart said:

JerseyKRS said:

any father that let's their daughter's mother do this shit is either a moron or a child molester. my bet is on the latter.

Last (or this) week's episode had this Air Force dad who was like a fuckin freak pageant dad and all I could say was I wouldn't leave my child alone in a room with that MF.

all joking aside, you're god damned right.

Well exactly. Same with when you see male judges. Why does a GROWN ASS MAN wanna see a little girl prancing around in Grown ass Woman clothing and makeup?????

And the mom that put her daughter in the Madonna busti-ae (I know I fucked that spelling up big time). Holy shit.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

johnart said:

Her mom can't even hold her head upright or look up. She's like in a fuckin STUPID COMA.

Is her mom single? I didn't see the dad at all. I'm always curious to see the fathers on this show. Mainly cause I can't believe they allow some of the shit that goes on.

Pageants are one thing, but this is taking it to a whole 'nother level.

The one chic on the one episode was saying the reason she had a kid was to put her in pageants. And when the girls win less than the parents were hoping for they don't even clap or smile or sheer for the kids. They act all disappointed. It's really sad. My heart breaks for the kids.

Have you seen the one dude who's SOOOOOOOO CLEARLY GAY he's married, and makes all the daughters costumes and shit and to boot talks with a lisssssssssssp

Then when he saw people talkin about him in pageant forums (they have their own "org" ) he says something about how they have to say shit, just because he talks with an accent.

MF THAT AINT AN ACCENT ITS THE GAYEST LISP ON EARTH!!!! It's the kind of lisp where his tongue don't work properly because its been exhausted from lickin too much dick.

johnart said:

MF THAT AINT AN ACCENT ITS THE GAYEST LISP ON EARTH!!!! It's the kind of lisp where his tongue don't work properly because its been exhausted from lickin too much dick.

you're fucking killing me!

JerseyKRS said:

johnart said:

MF THAT AINT AN ACCENT ITS THE GAYEST LISP ON EARTH!!!! It's the kind of lisp where his tongue don't work properly because its been exhausted from lickin too much dick.

you're fucking killing me!

What?? Dick can be exhausting.

johnart said:

JerseyKRS said:

you're fucking killing me!

What?? Dick can be exhausting.

OMG

And yes, I saw the lisp guy.

The mom.......what's her role in any of this??

TotalANXiousNESS said:

johnart said:

What?? Dick can be exhausting.

OMG

And yes, I saw the lisp guy.

The mom.......what's her role in any of this??

To keep his ultra religious hispanic family off his back?

Look ma! I'm married and I knocked her up 3 times. I also crochetted you this, like, totally adoooooooooorable scarflette!

JerseyKRS said:

WTF Is Howard Stern her agent?

johnart said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

Is her mom single? I didn't see the dad at all. I'm always curious to see the fathers on this show. Mainly cause I can't believe they allow some of the shit that goes on.

Pageants are one thing, but this is taking it to a whole 'nother level.

The one chic on the one episode was saying the reason she had a kid was to put her in pageants. And when the girls win less than the parents were hoping for they don't even clap or smile or sheer for the kids. They act all disappointed. It's really sad. My heart breaks for the kids.

Have you seen the one dude who's SOOOOOOOO CLEARLY GAY he's married, and makes all the daughters costumes and shit and to boot talks with a lisssssssssssp

Then when he saw people talkin about him in pageant forums (they have their own "org" ) he says something about how they have to say shit, just because he talks with an accent.

MF THAT AINT AN ACCENT ITS THE GAYEST LISP ON EARTH!!!! It's the kind of lisp where his tongue don't work properly because its been exhausted from lickin too much dick.

You mean like Alan Seuss from Laugh in?

it IS kind of cute when kids get all beauty pageanty, but then again there is this.

Does she have to be a princess to live happily ever after?

The struggle to raise smart, resilient daughters in a culture that equates identity with image

Journalist Peggy Orenstein had made a career out of writing about the parenting of young girls. But when Orenstein had a daughter for herself, the experience put all her perceptions about femininity and her thoughtful advice about gender identity to the test. As a mother, she found herself at war with a culture that emphasized physical appearance to her daughter over pride, strength, resilience and intelligence. Here’s an excerpt from her new book, “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.co...day-books/

excerpted:

I ended up publishing my musings as an article called “What’s Wrong with Cinderella?” which ran on Christmas Eve in The New York Times Magazine. I was entirely unprepared for the response. The piece immediately shot to the top of the site’s “Most E-mailed” list, where it hovered for days, along with an article about the latest conflict in the Middle East. Hundreds of readers wrote in — or e-mailed me directly — to express relief, gratitude, and, nearly as often, outright contempt: “I have been waiting for a story like yours.” “I pity Peggy Orenstein’s daughter.” “As a mother of three-year-old twin boys, I wonder what the land of princesses is doing to my sons.” “I would hate to have a mother like Orenstein.” “I honestly don’t know how I survived all those hyped-up images of women that were all around me as a girl.” “The genes are so powerful.”

Apparently, I had tapped into something larger than a few dime-store tiaras. Princesses are just a phase, after all. It’s not as though girls are still swanning about in their Sleeping Beauty gowns when they leave for college (at least most are not). But they did mark my daughter’s first foray into the mainstream culture, the first time the influences on her extended beyond the family. And what was the first thing that culture told her about being a girl? Not that she was competent, strong, creative, or smart but that every little girl wants — or should want — to be the Fairest of Them All.

It was confusing: images of girls’ successes abounded — they were flooding the playing field, excelling in school, outnumbering boys in college. At the same time, the push to make their appearance the epicenter of their identities did not seem to have abated one whit. If anything, it had intensified, extending younger (and, as the unnaturally smooth brows of midlife women attest, stretching far later). I had read stacks of books devoted to girls’ adolescence, but where was I to turn to understand the new culture of little girls, from toddler to “tween,” to help decipher the potential impact — if any — of the images and ideas they were absorbing about who they should be, what they should buy, what made them girls?

Did playing Cinderella shield them from early sexualization or prime them for it? Was walking around town dressed as Jasmine harmless fun, or did it instill an unhealthy fixation on appearance? Was there a direct line from Prince Charming to “Twilight” ’s Edward Cullen to distorted expectations of intimate relationships?

It is tempting, as a parent, to give the new pink-and-pretty a pass. There is already so much to be vigilant about, and the limits of our tolerance, along with our energy, slip a little with each child we have. So if a spa birthday party would make your six-year-old happy (and get her to leave you alone), really, what is the big deal? After all, girls will be girls, right? I agree, they will — and that is exactly why we need to pay more, rather than less, attention to what is happening in their world.

According to the American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.

In one study of eighth-grade girls, for instance, self-objectification — judging your body by how you think it looks to others — accounted for half the differential in girls’ reports of depression and more than two-thirds of the variance in their self-esteem.

Another linked the focus on appearance among girls that age to heightened shame and anxiety about their bodies. Even brief exposure to the typical, idealized images of women that we all see every day has been shown to lower girls’ opinion of themselves, both physically and academically.

Nor, as they get older, does the new sexiness lead to greater sexual entitlement. According to Deborah Tolman, a professor at Hunter College who studies teenage girls’ desire, “They respond to questions about how their bodies feel — questions about sexuality or arousal — by describing how they think they look. I have to remind them that looking good is not a feeling.”

cont. at link