“Vanity Gone Bad”

There is a disturbing psychosis running rampant among many of our citizens which involved many of them engaging in anything for Andy Warhol’s fifteen minutes of fame. Among these fame seekers, there is none more despicable than those parents who allowed their children to enter into these children’s beauty pageants. These pageants should be memorialized on the pages of dictionaries as the paradigms for child exploitation and abuse. The makeup and costumes, which these children are forced to wear, amount to nothing but the sexualizing children, some of whom are only five years old. In addition, these pageants are fodder for any pedophiles that happen to see them. All involved in putting together these children’s pageants are all culpable, but none more so than the parents. Where are these fathers and the social agencies? There was even one parent who had her little boy dressed up Ala a cross dresser and had him entered the girl’s pageant; mom’s excuse was that she always wanted a girl. What is particularly heart wrenching is the sight of seeing some of these children crying, not wanting to take part in the pageant, but having their parents coaxing them to enter. For those children who placed in the competition, one could see that it were the parents who were enjoying the win because most of the children were uninterested about the placement of winners or first runner ups…. I wonder if there are psychological studies on how these pageants affect these children in their teenage or adult years? If I had it my way, I would have the states ban all such pageants, which I think is tantamount to abuse and force these parents to enter treatment for what must be some sort of psychosis of vanity gone bad.

-Verily Prime