There she is ... Miscellaneous

I stuck with the Cubs games on TV yesterday afternoon, even when the score was 7 to nothing at the end of the first inning, but when the score reached 10 to nothing, I started flipping channels. I landed on something called “Toddlers and Tiaras” on TLC.

It was a behind-the-scenes look at child beauty pageants for which very young girls (and even infants) are dressed up and coiffed up and made up within an inch of their lives and, as soon as they are old enough to walk, are taught to dance and pose and sashay across a stage like grown women.

It was kind of like when you see a bad accident that is horrifying, yet you can’t turn away.

The perpetrators of this appalling exploitation are the girls' mothers, all of them very obviously trying to live their unfulfilled dreams vicariously through their daughters. They should be ashamed of themselves, and the male judges, especially given the way they talk about how the little girls look, ought to be arrested.