I am sad to admit that I, Haley Clark, am addicted to Toddlers and Tiaras and yes I, Haley Clark, spent seven miserably exciting hours the other day watching a marathon of Toddlers and Tiaras. If someone were to ask me why I subjected myself to such depressing trashy nonsense, I wouldn't really know what to say. I wish I could give an argument defending my guilty pleasure but there isn't much of one to give. Even though I am "one of those people" it's hard for me to understand how such a show could survive on air for such a long period of time but what I really think it comes down to is the obsession with other people's lives. In the United States we seem to have this crazy urge to see how the other "folk" live. I think it's safe to say that the majority of viewers of Toddlers and Tiaras are not crazy pageant moms and children. From experience, they are everyday people like you and me that just sit there amazed at what is being shown before our eyes. Maybe there are those of you that secretly wish your mom had put you in pageants like this when you were little or maybe its stemming the idea in your head that someday when you have a little girl, or boy, that you will put them in these kinds of pageant...but of course you will never be like "that" mom, oh no, you will be normal. I don't condone that objectification of little girls being dressed up and paraded in tiny bikinis and hooker outfits (like the episode of little Paisley that was dressed in "Pretty Woman Gear") in fact I find it sickening but so sickening that I can't tear my eyes away from this madness. It's sad really but seeing as how the show is continually renewing its contract with TLC, I have a feeling I am not the only one. I guess that is what pop culture is all about, the ability to find something so repulsive but at the same time immerse yourself into it.
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