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[–]akkordeonplayer 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know, didn't Pat Robertson come out in support of this? It's insane. Then again, there is a subset of US Christianity that was always big on beauty pageant culture, which also coincided with accepting plastic surgery as a "way of life". I remember back when JonBenet Ramsey was murdered (a child who happened to be a beauty pageant contestant), there was a sudden interest in beauty pageant subculture. I remember surfing on some web boards that discussed them-- and I was shocked when I realized how many parents literally bought breast implants for their teenaged daughters so they could be "competitive" in the pageant circuit. The children who competed often had their hair dyed, wore fake teeth, wore colored eye contacts, had spray-on tans, etc.. which also shocked me. This was back in the 90s so I can only imagine it's worse now.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ironically, I thought the JonBenet Ramsey case largely killed the public appetite for child pageantry. Now we have child drag queens and no one dares speak out against it.