i use to compete in beauty pageants.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants, although some contests have evolved to also incorporate personality traits, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria. The term almost invariably refers only to contests for unmarried women such as the Big Four international beauty pageants. Similar events or competition for men or boys being called by other names and more likely to be bodybuilding contests. The organizers of each pageant may determine the rules of the competition, including the age range of contestants. The rules may also require the contestants to be unmarried, and be \"virtuous\", \"amateur\", and available for promotions, besides other criteria. It may also set the clothing standards in which contestants will be judged, including the type of swimsuit. Beauty pageants are generally multi-tiered, with local competitions feeding into the larger competitions. For example, the international pageants have hundreds or thousands of local competitions. Child beauty pageants mainly focus on beauty, gowns, sportswear modelling, talent, and personal interviews.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I've always thought that beauty pageants are so weird. These moms are basically forcing their kids into them and trying to live vicariously through their kids winning pageants."}, {"role": "user", "content": "probably the same as fathers pushing their sons into sports"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Eh it's a little weirder than sports. They make kids wear tons of makeup, fake teeth, and often times very provocative and inappropriate outfits for their ages."}, {"role": "user", "content": "fake teeth? they actually use fake teeth?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah it looks bizarre. They're little kids and they're getting spray tanning and waxing done for these pageants to the point that with all the makeup they don't even look like themselves."}, {"role": "user", "content": "it seems like there should be some rules that limit make-up and tanning "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I definitely agree with that, honestly I feel like there should be strict rules on them as far as sexualizing little kids goes, since they're pretty much always younger than 16 years of age."}, {"role": "user", "content": "these kid's pageants, who do they appeal to? an audience or just the parents involved"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well the moms are the ones getting the most out of it, but these actually started back in 1921 in an effort to boost tourism to an Atlantic City hotel, so there are definitely people who seem to get a kick out of them."}, {"role": "user", "content": "does these pageants have a overseeing board to govern or are they mostly local and private individual pageants?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "As far as I know there are so many different types of pageants that it would be hard to have one entity govern them. There's talent shows, swim wear, theme wear, western wear, and pretty much anything else you could think of."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I enjoyed the chat, take care"}]