Awkwardness

The 98 PXY white party at the dome was on Sunday night, and it was... awkward. Maybe it was just me but I didn't realize what it was going to be like. So I walk in with my jeans and white hoodie (since it was only like 30 degrees out) and realized that the whole night was going to be awkward.

The party was aimed for ages 13 to 19 I think and I've never been more annoyed in my life. There were so many girls walking around in tank tops and short-shorts and the skimpiest clothes they could possibly have. I don't know how their parents even let them out of the house. To me at like 13 or 14 you shouldn't be dressing like that and grinding with random guys you don't know. It's disgusting and if it were my kid i would probably kill them.

I'm about to sound like an old lady, but kids these days seem to be growing up faster. I remember when i was younger I was wearing clothes with cartoon characters on them and wasn't worried so much about how I look. But now girls seem to be buying the designer brand clothes sooner and obsessing over boys at like 9 years old. It just kind of bothers me that kids don't get to enjoy their childhood for as long and at a young age they start worrying about looking good for and impressing other people.

Back to feeling awkward... if I knew what the party was going to actually be like, I would have dressed way different. I think I was like the only one dressed in jeans and a hoodie. Not to mention me and my friends were like the oldest people there. There ended up being more of the younger group and we really didn't know any of the people except for a few. Over all, I was a little disappointed with the night, but what can you do.

I'm jumping around a lot, but still on the topic of growing up to fast, have you ever seen the show Toddlers and Tiaras? It's actually very interesting but at the same time I find it ridiculous. If you don't know what it's about, it's a show on beauty pageants for little girls as young as an infant but the key stars of the show are usually 5 years or older. I find it hard to believe that a little girl would one day randomly want to be in beauty pageants, the parents must have forced the kids to do it at one point. I find it kind of sad that young girls are already being told to always look pretty and are held up to unrealistic expectations. The girls on the show at their young age are already getting spray tans, wearing more makeup then most people I know, getting their hair done, and spending hundreds of dollars on an outfit for a pageant. I don't understand why the parents are okay with spending all this money for their kids to be told that they are not good enough to win a pageant or to just win a trophy. Also if a girl wins a lot of pageants she might turn out overly confident and a girl who can't win any might have self-esteem problems later on in life. I just think the whole thing is a bad idea and i wouldn't want my kid to be apart of something like that. It doesn't celebrate being unique and the winners of the pageants usually have the same specific look that caused them to win.





This little girl looks scary! She looks like a china doll and it's just not realistic. Little girls aren't supposed to look like this and their parents are spending a lot of money to make their kid look fake and creepy. Also in the show, one of the girls was crying and really upset because she didn't want to get spray tanned and the mother pretty much forced her to. Another girl had just gotten her hair done and she was spinning around and playing like a little girl should and the mother or coach or whatever started yelling at her and told her she wasn't aloud to move until her performance because it would mess up her hair. If the kids decided they wanted to do it on their own, that would be a different story. But they should never be forced to do something like a beauty pageant. They should get the chance to enjoy being young and be able to be treated like a normal kid instead of constantly having people judge them or always having people in their face with makeup and fake nails.