Messages By: gpowell

I can't believe that there are people out there who are still so openly prejudiced towards gays and lesbians. First of all who cares what people do in their sex lives, if I am not involved I certainly don't. Secondly the priest who claims that he was once gay and now isn't I don't think was ever really gay, probably bisexual but not gay. He compared being a transformed gay to being an alcoholic but omitted the well-acknowledged fact that an alcoholic is always an alcoholic regardless of whether or not they drink; did he mean that a homosexual is always a homosexual wjether or not they practice homosexuality ? Scariest of all was the woman who worried thather son might be gay - HELLO HE's FOUR !!! Would she be wooried if he said he was Batman ? Maybe it's a phase, maybe he's transgender or maybe he will grow up to be gay or a transvestite - get over it ! He's your son do the best you can and love him lots no matter what. I used to think my daughter might be gay because she was such a tomboy, she is so straight and has the 2 children to back it up. People are people love them for who they are not what they are.

  

I can't believe what I just saw. I felt sick. While I know that you have a tough row to hoe there is no way of describing your behaviour as anything but child abuse. Apart from the fact that she is only a child she isn't a normal child, how can you treat anyone or anything like that ? I wouldn't treat an animal the way you treat and speak to your daughter. You ought to thank your lucky stars that you have a child as there are milions of people that can't or that have had a child and lost it or have a child who is severely mentally or physically challenged. I hope you are as disgusted with yourself when you see yourself on TV as I am by you. 

I think that the mothers are the ones with the problem and do not realise that they are creating a monster! What happens when the child becomes gawky? Or fat in puberty? Or spotty? Or god forbid has an accident that damages their looks and therefore destroys their self image? You are teaching the child that pretty is what matters. Not kindness, intelligence or personality. It also seems to me that these pageants are racist as there are more white children than any other ethnicity. My daughter was (and is) stunningly attractive and begged to model from the time she was 6 years old, finally when she turned 11 I let her take some courses, which she thoroughly enjoyed. She did model locally and at 13 was asked to go to New York for some more "go-sees", which I declined. Although I sometimes wonder if I made the wrong decision in refusing to let her go, I know deep down that I didn't. I have seen what the industry can do to people, it chews them up and spits them out and for every Tyra or Cindy there are countless others whose lives are ruined. Today she is happy and healthy (and 33), and looks back more fondly on her years of playing soccer which she did while modelling (that's why they created makeup), than she does on her modelling. She has also changed shape drastically since having two children and is no longer 5'9" and a size 5, now she is curvy shapely and has much more confidence. She herself says that she feels better about herself than she did when she was so thin because people now see more than the blonde hair and skinny body, they see a person. There are lots of things parents can do with their children (even modelling), that does not involve fake anything, Dr.Phil is right it's downright creepy the way these kids look. I feel sorry for the other parent and children in the family of these little monsters.