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 09/09/2010 02:04:09 PM · #1
Originally posted by JH:
Originally posted by snaffles:
Yep, not at all to see two completely different versions of the same breed, one strictly for show/line classes and generally a much more rugged version that can actually do something!

Are you still talking about beauty pageants?


Yes, the 4-legged version thereof. Guess Jac and I got this threa a little sidetracked :-)

Message edited by author 2010-09-09 14:09:48.
 09/09/2010 11:08:38 AM · #2
And yet look what we do. We parade our photographs in front of the whole world! We dodge them, we burn them, we bump up their contrast, we cut away their excess parts. We treat our photographs worse than our kids and our dogs. Yet you never hear the photographs complaining! :P
 09/09/2010 10:24:31 AM · #3
Originally posted by snaffles:
Yep, not at all to see two completely different versions of the same breed, one strictly for show/line classes and generally a much more rugged version that can actually do something!

Are you still talking about beauty pageants?
 09/09/2010 10:16:05 AM · #4
Yep, not at all to see two completely different versions of the same breed, one strictly for show/line classes and generally a much more rugged version that can actually do something!

I have living proof that a pedigree is by no means proof of quality in a breed. My little cat Lily was once a breeding queen in a cattery. Lily has a sweet wonderful temperament, and perfect colouring for the breed, but she is a conformational disaster. I never saw any of her kittens so don't know if they also inherited her base-narrow, cow-hocked and sickle-hocked legs, but can't help but wonder why they bred her in the first place. Ah well.
 09/09/2010 10:03:50 AM · #5
Originally posted by snaffles:
Originally posted by Jac:
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Yeah, just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of dog shows, which I find quasi-disturbing as well. Another planet, and I find it belittling and somewhat twisted to parade animals around in that fashion. I feel the same way about children. It really objectifies them.


Thought I was alone on this issue. Good to see I'm not alone in thinking animals have rights and one of them is to NOT be paraded as clowns, as these kids are in the photos.


Parading the animals around is only the icing on the cake. What frightens me about most breed shows, be they dog/cat and yes, even horse, are the way those animals are supposed to enforce the human ideal of a breed standard.

*kicking away soapbox*


Yeah that too. I sometimes look at a dog and ask myself what it would look like if man hadn't modified the way it looks through selective breeding. All those cute little iterations of what people call dogs (or any other animal) are just what people want, dolls. Disgusting to say the least. Then I see these modified creatures being paraded like circus clowns for all to see and are awarded prizes too. Again, disgusting.

My soapbox is glued to my shoes..... it would seem. lol
 09/09/2010 09:09:18 AM · #6
Originally posted by Jac:
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Yeah, just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of dog shows, which I find quasi-disturbing as well. Another planet, and I find it belittling and somewhat twisted to parade animals around in that fashion. I feel the same way about children. It really objectifies them.


Thought I was alone on this issue. Good to see I'm not alone in thinking animals have rights and one of them is to NOT be paraded as clowns, as these kids are in the photos.


Parading the animals around is only the icing on the cake. What frightens me about most breed shows, be they dog/cat and yes, even horse, are the way those animals are supposed to enforce the human ideal of a breed standard.

*kicking away soapbox*
 09/09/2010 08:38:03 AM · #7
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Yeah, just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of dog shows, which I find quasi-disturbing as well. Another planet, and I find it belittling and somewhat twisted to parade animals around in that fashion. I feel the same way about children. It really objectifies them.


Thought I was alone on this issue. Good to see I'm not alone in thinking animals have rights and one of them is to NOT be paraded as clowns, as these kids are in the photos.
 09/09/2010 07:02:33 AM · #8
Yeah, just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of dog shows, which I find quasi-disturbing as well. Another planet, and I find it belittling and somewhat twisted to parade animals around in that fashion. I feel the same way about children. It really objectifies them.
 09/09/2010 06:50:04 AM · #9
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
Originally posted by snaffles:
as hypersexualized as it is...*sigh*


AHEM...

;)


*eyeroll* Hey, at least I'm an adult and doing it of my own free will! I guess some of those kids actually do pageants because they enjoy them. But can't help but wonder how many do it just to please their parents.
 09/09/2010 06:41:46 AM · #10
Originally posted by snaffles:
as hypersexualized as it is...*sigh*


AHEM...

;)
 09/09/2010 06:34:28 AM · #11
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
I'm not sure if it makes it better or worse to me that these pageant photos are largely fake. On the one hand, it means that those kids don't ACTUALLY look like dolls. On the other hand, it means that the whole thing is even more synthetic than I thought it was...
pageant people give me the heebie geebies.


*applauding* Exactly. She's only catering to a market that already exists, which definitely scores high on the creep-o-meter. And people wonder why society is as hypersexualized as it is...*sigh*
 09/09/2010 05:58:28 AM · #12
I'm not sure if it makes it better or worse to me that these pageant photos are largely fake. On the one hand, it means that those kids don't ACTUALLY look like dolls. On the other hand, it means that the whole thing is even more synthetic than I thought it was...
pageant people give me the heebie geebies.
 09/09/2010 03:29:50 AM · #13
Bad as Crazy Doll Lady is or used to be, my general opinion of pageants isn't far behind my opinion of her.
 09/09/2010 01:55:23 AM · #14
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
She did ok for me back in '07. Removed some wrinkles and made me look less angry. I took runner up in the Little Miss Congeniality pageant.


Wow! Can I get your number?
 09/08/2010 10:15:50 PM · #15
OMG...where's the eyewash station?! Can't...get...those...EYES...out...of...my...head...
 09/08/2010 09:25:40 PM · #16
Haha, I remember this being posted a while ago.
 09/08/2010 09:09:10 PM · #17
Originally posted by Bear_Music:




R.


Ooooooh me gawd, that is so horrid!
 09/08/2010 08:58:27 PM · #18
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Looks like she just got better at sucking to me.

Pretty much, but at least she isn't turning little black girls in to little white girls and calling them "enhanced" any more.
 09/08/2010 08:54:47 PM · #19
Botox would work wonders!!! herhehe

Actually, she did get better, I dunno if you remember her original site, but OOOOOOOOOOOMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGgggggggggg, so in some aspects she has actually pulled back her retouching a LOT some of the pictures now, really could pass off as human

09/08/2010 08:52:44 PM · #20
She did ok for me back in '07. Removed some wrinkles and made me look less angry. I took runner up in the Little Miss Congeniality pageant.
09/08/2010 08:51:09 PM · #21
Looks like she just got better at sucking to me.
 09/08/2010 08:47:48 PM · #22
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by david_c:

edit: Is it just me, or did she actually get better at that?


Really?



R.

Really.

09/08/2010 08:31:04 PM · #23
Originally posted by david_c:

edit: Is it just me, or did she actually get better at that?


Really?



R.
09/08/2010 08:18:15 PM · #24
I was just thinking the same thing, I think she got a bit better. Not much but certainly an improvement on before!

actually until i got to the basic retouching, then ti goes bad again.

But this woman does has skills, good ones too, but it is just so over the top, it makes it terrible

Message edited by author 2010-09-08 20:22:27.
 09/08/2010 08:03:37 PM · #25
Almost 4 years ago, and she's still at it. Kudos to her for perseverance! :-D

//pageantphotoretouching.homestead.com/homepage.html

edit: Is it just me, or did she actually get better at that? Maybe she should just be overpriced crazy retouch lady now.

Message edited by author 2010-09-08 20:06:22.
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