I got an e-mail earlier advising me that I was being followed on Twitter by WEtv. As I usually do when I get one of these notifications, I toddled on over to WEtv’s Twitter site to check it out. The first (most recent) entry I read was something about a show called Little Miss Perfect that is airing on WEtv (a/k/a “Television for Women” – can I just tell you how much I like being lumped into this category? ARGH).
It seems Little Miss Perfect is a “reality” television show. And this one is all about the world of beauty pageants for children. If you’re anything like me, when you hear “beauty pageants for children,” you immediately think of JonBenét Ramsey, that poor little girl who was murdered 12 years ago.
It’s no secret that I have a particularly vehement dislike of beauty pageants. Judging people by their physical appearance is wrong. I don’t care whether we’re talking about men or women. But I do think it’s an even more heinous thing to do to children.
Why on earth would anyone want to dress his/her daughter up – including clothing, shoes, hairstyles, and make-up – to look like an 18-year-old hooker turned southern belle circa 1980? Or would it be 18-year-old southern belle circa 1980 turned hooker? I’m not quite sure. And have you seen the way these tykes are taught to walk? Nothing like teaching a six-year-old to shake her ass. Ever hear the saying, “I’d like to have a swing like that on my porch?”
Condoning teaching little girls that their net worth is rapped up in their physical appearance and encouraging parents to dress their children up like adults… this is what “Television for Women” is about? Really?
And this reminds me that I want to purchase the movie Little Miss Sunshine. Have you seen it? I’m guessing the powers that be at WEtv have not. Or they saw it and just didn’t get it. Judging from WEtv’s programming, Little Miss Sunshine was probably over their heads. I wonder how much money WEtv is going to make by capitalizing on this crap. Of course, this is also the channel that brings you Bridezillas,* a show about amazingly superficial women behaving so badly that I find it hard to believe anyone would want to spend ten minutes with them, much less the rest of their lives.
So, is it any wonder that while I was perusing WEtv’s Little Miss Perfect website, I misread the word slideshow as sideshow and the word primp and pimp? More sad than funny, I’m afraid.
So, I’m now officially boycotting WEtv. I’ll not be watching anything on that channel. They either need to change the name of their channel so as to stop insulting women by marketing this tripe specifically to them or they need to stop marketing this bullshit and air something that has some semblance of intelligence.
* I just recently discovered this Bridezillas show over the Christmas/New Year holiday. I had enough time off work that I was actually able to sit down and flip through television channels I don’t usually watch.
Crossposted from Eriepressible
