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Gosh Sear.....you sure seem to like spud salad big time. LotD

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Yes sear has always liked potato salad, LotD.

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What is degrading about the pageant? Sir PArksalot

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My biggest complaint is they are not just picked as beautiful young women! They are groomed for this since being tiny little girls and pushed to exhaustion by over doting mothers.
Check any place and you will find a beauty contest and talent for little girls. (Most never get
to be little girls)
Jon Bonnet was being groomed and pushed by her mother who was once Miss America. They start them early and push them hard throughout their entire young life's'.
Then it is like a game, I am prettier and more talented than you!

I read an article years ago about many older pageant winners and all had wished they had never done it and saw it as exploitation of females.

(You asked vdiamond)

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Sometimes, only IMO, those who think this is exploitation are really showing green eyes (jealous that they don't have the same "attributes".) Louann

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I still stick by my theroy of the pushing of the children.

But I was second in our hometown beauty contest. (two years in a row) But we were not taught as children on how to do this. (We were all just amateurs, in swim suits and formals) Judged on our walks, figure, and if we were pretty.
Of course that was decades ago, but not something I am proud of today. 'I cannot see it as green eyed jealousy' MO
Maybe some do?
grace06

There is just something about 6 year old little girls dressed to look and act like 20 year old beautiful ladies. that is extremely unnatural to me.

Now go back to curls in the hair and NO make up and a dancing contest and I would have zero problem. I would have zero problem with them dressed as little girls in a beauty pageant if they were not made up to look like they are 20 y/o,s. in High heels no less.

I must be a prude! I feel pushing your child into what (YOU) want for them to be wrong. They will someday want their own life's' MO
grace06