{"id":3544,"date":"2013-09-19T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2013-09-19T18:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:48:16","slug":"french-onto-something-with-pageant-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"French onto something with pageant ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The French have been whipped pretty hard in the United States since, oh, about the time of the 9\/11 attacks. Some Americans have resented the French for failing to support our war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember those “freedom fries”? Good grief!<\/p>\n

I have not joined that chorus. I will, though, applaud the French senate for voting to end children’s beauty pageants.<\/p>\n

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I’ve long thought of these kiddie pageants as being — how to say it — vaguely perverted. The sight of these little girls prancing around provocatively, with their hair pulled up and their eyes laden with makeup frankly makes me want to hurl.<\/p>\n

It is unnatural, unwarranted and unappealing.<\/p>\n

Forgive me for saying this, too, but every time I witness a kids’ pageant, a certain name keeps popping into my head: Jon Benet Ramsey, the Colorado girl who also took part in these events and was murdered in a case that drew international attention. Some folks speculated that the killer might have held some disgustingly lustful urges before killing that little girl.<\/p>\n

I have no clue as to whether France’s idea of outlawing these pageants ever will become law in that country, let alone catch fire in the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

I hope it does.<\/p>\n\n

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