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My Portfolio
By: Laura ElderHour 1
Child Beauty Pageants: Parents Exploiting Their
Children
What’s the issue?• Parents exploit and sexualize their kids• Why are pageants bad for children?– It’s not the child’s decision– It teaches poor morals
• Why do parents do this to their children?– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1HRfy4xxko&feature=channel
• I chose this topic because it is:– Controversial• Beauty Pageants… Good or bad?
– Current• Ever seen Toddlers & Tiaras? Little Miss Perfect?
– Interesting
Weirdest Pageant Moments: infoMania
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzgD1p_vvQA
•What makes this video satire?– Sarcastic tone– Burlesque
“Stripper poles now allowed in pageants”
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i58869
Starting in 2005 with a request from 4-year old Sophia Clarkman's mother, Jane Clarkman, to include "talent poles" within segments of nationwide beauty competitions, the hot topic has suddenly become all the rage, literally, among players of the child pageantry world. . .
"My daughter has an acrobatic talent that just happens to be doing tricks around a pole. It has nothing to do with stripping," she tells media reporters. . .
"She just loves to dance, loves to move her body, and loves to be the hottest, like all the other girls, don't let them kid you," exclaims Clarkman. "They're all just jealous that they can't spin as well as my girl, or have never tried because their mommies won't let them. Sophia can do the bridge, the straight leg grip, everything really, because her body is so young and flexible.”
•What makes this article satire?
–Exaggeration–Understatement–Speaker
Clip from South Parkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfASofO-NMA&feature=related
•What makes this video clip satire?– Irony–Caricature
Caricature:
• Exaggerates stereotypes of pageant participants
and their parents:– Average looking parents
doting on daughter– Mother looks ‘determined’– Daughter has an extremely
made-up appearance
Another Caricature:
• Exaggerates pageant girl’s appearance: HUGE hair, globs of makeup
• Portrays a stereotypical pageant mother (fussing over daughter’s appearance)
Bruno: Photo Shoothttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RcJyyfozvA
•What makes this video clip satire?– Exaggeration
Jimmy and Guillermo: Toddlers & Tiarashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGIQMWXEf6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTQcyieODJU&feature=channel
•What makes this video satire?– Video is a parody– Exaggeration– Understatement