Toddlers And Tiaras Rhetorical Analysis

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Have you ever watched the show "Toddlers and Tiaras" before? To sum up "Toddlers and Tiaras" it's a TV show that gives us a view on how child beauty pageants really are. The author of the article "Toddlers and Tiaras" Skip Hollandsworth is an award winning journalist who is currently the executive editor in Texas Monthly Magazine. Hollandsworth uses a lot of ethos, pathos and logos throughout the article to prove his point, which is how child beauty pageants are affecting little girls (around the age of six years old) mentally. Ethos means credibility, Pathos means to produce emotion and finally Logos means logic or facts. Throughout the article Hollandsworth explains and describes how these "beauty pageants" are affecting little girls (around the age of six) mentally and how they become insecure of themselves. …show more content…

Nancy Irwin states in Hollandsworths article that "these little girls [around the age of six years old] are trained to look and act like sexual bait" (quoted in Hollandsworth 493) . Hollandsworth also mentions how Irwin was in beauty pageants as a teenager and as a young adult, but she competed in them to get scholarship money. Irwin worries that mothers order their children to be in beauty pageants and its true because in the show "Toddlers and Tiaras" the mothers are the ones that seem to want to win the prize more than their child. Ethos was used in this section of the article because Hollandsworth showed credibility by including Irwin (the psychotherapist) in his article. By Hollandsworth adding professional people in his article and explaining their degree makes his work more

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