This is no joke. This should not be treated like a one-off case by an unstable parent. These awful child beauty pageants, which contribute not even an ounce of worth or purpose to this world, are responsible for the flagrant abuse of children. They must be shut down! They are horrendous excuses for entertainment and the practices they espouse from parents borders on the criminal.
Take the case of the mother that readily admits to injecting her poor child with Botox to eliminate any possibility of a wrinkle:
How sick is that? How do we allow these pageants to continue when they provide us with nothing and instead encourage parents to treat their kids like circus animals! I totally agree with John Kass:
… when I think of little-girl beauty pageants — after the story last week about Kerry Campbell, the idiotic mom injecting Botox into the face of her 8-year-old daughter Britney — all I can think of are three little words:
Shut them down.
Shut all those kiddie pageants down.
It’s easy for us to slam one ignorant parent who lives vicariously through her daughter, or slam a few parents who treat their children as if they’re painted dolls. We pronounce such parents fools and think we’ve won a great victory.
But this really isn’t about isolated cases, or even the entire, weird little-girl pageant scene. The larger story is how we Americans feel about ourselves, how we define beauty in the age of facial injections and lip shots and tummy tucks and liposuction and breast implants and hair transplants.
And as millions endure all that poking and prodding and tying and cutting, can’t you hear America groaning, begging: Desire Me, Want Me, Please Want Me Forever.
We put all that pressure on women to be young and cute into their old age, until even an 8-year-old isn’t young enough or cute enough, if her name is Britney, getting Botoxed.
It all starts with those little girls painted with lipstick, sprayed with tanning powder, with big hair and heels. They strut down those runways with that JonBenet Ramsey pout, training to become princess victims.
And the parents cheer as their young are sexualized.
In today’s age. how do we let these blasted things continue?
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