What do you think of "toddlers in tiaras" children beauty pageants?

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Personally, I think it’s bizarre. Some of those parents who enter their very young children in stressful, competitive beauty pageants, making them cry out of pressure to win, should get their heads examined. I’ve seen documentaries about these parents and the beauty pageants they get their kids into, and although the children seem to like it (a few don’t, outright), it seems unfair to the children. They are like puppets, forced into these contests at the whims of their lunatic parents. Sigh, I weep for these poor children. :(

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