Google 'kids beauty pageants' and you may feel nauseous looking at the images of 5,6,7,8-year-old girls: little lambs dressed as mutton.
Over the last 24 hours there has been an Australian news story about some kiddie beauty pageant franchise coming to Australia and just tonight I was mesmerized by a story on A Current Affair, were they even spoke to a mum who thinks the whole thing is pretty fabulous. (Even though one of her kids admitted to not even enjoy wearing damn make-up.)
How any parent planning on putting their kid in a perve-fest like this can see the harmlessness of slapping on spack-filler, mascara and lippie that is painted around a face framed by hair dye and horrible curls is plain scary. Oh, and that's before they lace-up the street whore-like clothing, and in some cases, even have Botox administered to their line less faces. It's all just plainly woeful.
Sure, there are well-versed commentators, psychologists and therapists whose take on this will be much more clinical, but from a pop culture observer's point-of-view, it is just simply nauseating.
Many of us can still picture that image of the murdered pageant queen, Jon-Benet Ramsey, and perhaps it is that picture that tars all pageant babes with the same brush? But I think not. We all know that sexual images are always been thrown to us (and to our kids) and we deal with that in our own parental way.
Nearly every popular song my 9-year-old son listens to has some kind of sexual innuendo in it. Just the other day I was explaining the meaning of a mangina (thanks Ke$ha) and 'Sex in the air I don't care I love the smell of it' (Helloooooo Rihanna) so do we need 'our' precious little girls looking like young hookers?
Or, is it just a case of some of the mums living the life they never had through their little girls? Whatever it is, it's all too horrible.
Above pic from the dollsbyalesia blog 
You too could look like this: Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson Take a look and these and you'll get the feel . . . http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8228151/mother-injects-daughter-8-with-botox http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/little-beauties-on-show/story-e6freuy9-1226028587769
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