What kind of parenting is this?

[Autumnlicious]

You are free, of course, to better lay out why your comparison is valid.

Both encourage competition where there should be none. Furthermore, both are basically the same thing for different sexes. In beauty pageants, girls are catty and horrible to each other emotionally, which is to say nothing of their twisted mothers. Obviously physical fights involving children encourage being horrible to each other physically. They are just different sides of the same coin. The potential for physical injury is obviously more of an issue in these fights, which would be one area I would say the one is worse than the other. That being said, I was speaking on the parenting aspect of it. Both are equal in the parenting department.

I disagree with you on the last part. For one thing, physical injury and trauma bring with it emotional trauma. However, in case of the Beauty Pageant, it is nothing but emotional trauma (and a lot of that).

However, due to each situation evaluated requiring case-by-case inspection, I yield that determining which one is objectively worse is impossible. That said, it is this ape's opinion that the physical violence and subsequent trauma on the average is more likely to be worse together than the emotional trauma in said Pageant.

In addition, the worse the Beauty Pageant will produce is some stressed out, emotionally fragile and needy girl who would more likely, given the general attitudes and expectations in America towards women, be married off and breeding.

The worse this may produce is more violent men who have more experience using their brawn than brains from a young age.

Ergo, from a parenting perspective, producing a child who will be married off into a most likely unhappy marriage and potential spousal abuse/antics is preferable to having your child locked up in prison for stretches of time, never able to get a real job in their life again (ex-cons are the bottom of the barrel workforce-wise).