Peer Analyzing for 3rd Paper

 

       1.      Her main point is that pageants change girls to sweet little innocent girls to pageant divas. Her claim is clear. Toddlers in Tiaras Pageantry changes a mothers and sometimes fathers goal of having a sweet daughter, to who can be the biggest diva and take home money, trophies, and bragging rights.

2.      She makes an argument in an article by Lucia Grosaru that says it’s not the kid’s choice to do the beauty pageants, but it’s the mothers who sign their kids up. She gives the evidence from a quote from a psychiatrist who’s studied what beauty queens life styles are like.

3.      Her paper is evenly written. She has made a co9unterargument that states that this is a common thing that people (especially in the south) have been doing for generations, and that they are just “passing the torch on” to their daughters. She then argues back saying this is just turning young kids into something fake with fake hair, teeth, and makeup.

4.      Another authority /source that she used in her essay was from Jessica Bennett. She is a author for Newsweek and she states that the mothers are teaching their young daughters how to strut and swagger and flip their hair and pout their lips. They are teaching their kids that it’s all about beauty, money and winning.

5.      The author and I have the same ideas in a sense. As someone who has done pageants before, I believe there is a lot of good that comes out of them. However, scholarship pageants are very different from beauty pageants.