To not want to vote for children I don't know in 'beauty' competitions.

[posieparker]

Now I think my dcs are beautiful, perfect after all they all look like me! But I understand that not everyone looks upon my children with such bias appreciation.
First some from Dh's work, an office in the USA, contacts my DH and asks that he votes for his 'gorgeous' daughter to be the face of gap and then there's a thread on here linking to some next competition, with people asking that you 'please vote for my little poppet', etc

Am I being unreasonable to not want to vote for these children that are beautiful in the eyes of their parents, and not me, and that I do not know at all and, perhaps most importantly, to participate in beauty competitions?

Is that not the point of a beauty competition, it is based on appearances so you don't need to know the children. But you should not feel obliged to vote.

yanbu
it's an indulgence for the parent, can't see any benefit for the child, so I wouldn't participate on that basis.

if you don't want to vote then don't, just ignore but i don't think its worth getting annoyed

No ones making you vote for them

Lets face it, most kids look like trolls compared to my DS, so what is the point of beauty contests anyway .

Just don't take part if it annoys you.

YANBU and tbh, I'm always surprised when requests of that nature appear on MN.

T'is very infra dig.

I like laughing at the mad names the contestants usually have though.

(and dd is definitely beautiful because she was approached by some agency ho' when out with dp a few years ago but we told them she would be too busy working for NASA to be a catwalk dolly)

YABU. How else are they going to win?!

YANBU. But I don't really understand why these companies run these competitions this way. I wait for the day they end up with some child who looks like the back end of a bus but has won just because they have found the most brain dead people to vote for them!

YANBU. I rarely find other people's babies that cute, tbh. When similar requests pop up on the other site I use (a teaching one, not even a parenting one) I just ignore. Actually, I'm very unlikely to vote for ANYTHING just because someone has asked me to, whether it involves babies, dogs, vegetables, whatever. It rubs me up the wrong way.

YANBU, just say no.

Yanbu and is it just me but does anyone else think that it's a little bit like cheating when you are going out of your way asking people to vote. If your child is genuinely beautiful then people who see the article/whatever will think, "oh that's the most beautiful child on here, I'm going to vote," and they should win it that way!