Quote Originally Posted by JLC
I'm glad I didn't see what you saw, Kim. I mighta thrown something at the TV. I think all beauty pageants are absurd and ridiculous...but at least adults have the capacity to make the decision to parade themselves around like cattle at a county fair if they wish. For parents to subject their children to that....it's just obscene. What a way to completely ingrain vapid, destructive value systems.

Yeah...one of the judges was saying that he thought it was a POSITIVE thing to teach these little girls the "reality" of life: as in "The reality is, in the real world, you're judged by your appearance. To tell them [the girls] that isn't the case is ridiculous. It would be like wearing cut-off jeans into the boardroom." --I'm paraphrasing here, as I don't have the direct quote, but that was the jist. It's crazy.