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Another article about child beauty pageants mentioning how the murder of JonBenet Ramsey thrust a so called 'subculture' into the spotlight as though beautiful child contests are something new and unusual, rather than a generations old, well established element of society - -

Girls line up to be 'Little Miss Perfect
Published in the LA Times
By Jon Caramanica

"In reality television, to film something is to judge it...The murder of JonBenét Ramsey a little more than 13 years ago helped thrust the child-pageant subculture into the spotlight, and it appears little has changed since then. Young women still get unreasonably dolled up in pursuit of trophies, and an entire coterie of leech-like figures -- coaches, dressmakers, makeup artists -- are there to expedite the process.

"Little Miss Perfect" focuses on glitz pageants (natural pageants forswear makeup and tanning and the like, and what kind of TV show would that make?) though what's overwhelming on this show is the sheer averageness of the proceedings, which take place in hotel ballrooms on makeshift stages while an audience of decidedly unglamorous parents and supporters look on.[...read more]