off with their heads!

The number of children participating beauty pageants during JonBenet's era is not easy to pin down. But today, as many as 100,000 children under the age of 12 participate in this billion-dollar industry in the US. For those inclined to oggle, er, pay attention, the sight of little girls mimicking their Miss America counterparts often disgusts and frightens to such an extreme it promotes suggestions for child pageant illegalization with severe sentences, including death, for parents.

Death for committing pageantry. Sure, you bet. Wasting Internet space even in a tongue in cheek suggestion is non-reality hype driving innuendo that the vulnerable, or less literate, can and will buy into.

Like that birther group, this is right in line with an irrational mind set that justified unnecessary use of $2m+ tax payer dollars to pursue a purely fantasized theory of guilt, having no basis in fact or evidence, about the Ramseys--





Child Pageants In Unforgiving Closeup
Published in the Village Voice
by By Michael Musto

"Even before JonBenet Ramsey's sad plight, I felt that those faded beauty queen mothers who pushed their daughters into kiddie pageants in order to live out their twisted Mama Rose-like dreams belonged on Death Row along with molesters and serial killers..."

From the reader comment gallery:

wings says:
"...Let's pass a law against them for the safety of the kids."

zizi says:
"...You're right, they should be executed."