Great news French Senate votes 197-146 to ban child beauty pageants

[malaise]

http://inagist.com/all/380303954376400896/?utm_source=inagist&utm_medium=rss

Anyone who enters a child into such a contest would face up to two years in prison. .

[NuclearDem]

1. If only we would do that here.

[HappyMe]

2. Good.

Those pageants are creepy. I just don't understand what the hell those people are thinking.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. I was in a Tiny Tot contest at the county fair once

when I was 5 years old. As a 5-year-old, I had no idea what it was all about, but now I think that essentially it was merely young parents wanting to show off their kids. Looking at photos of that event, it seems like nobody really got dressed up, we apparently were just trying to look as cute as possible.

[question everything]

3. One has to wonder if JonBennet Ramsey would be alive

had we have such a ban here.

[jmowreader]

6. No...

Whoever got pissed enough at JonBenet to kill her would have done it anyway. The only reason you heard about it, is the beauty queen thing.

[TheMightyFavog]

4. I guess the French saw an episode of Honey Boo Boo

And vowed to not let that kind of shit happen in their country.

[MoonRiver]

7. Excellent!

Now let's follow suit, USA.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. When I see a kid's beauty pageant, I always think about the kids who lose.

People in our society already are too self-conscious about their looks. I don't even like adult beauty pageants, much less pageants for children. Good-looking people usually know they are already, and the people who are less attractive, especially kids, don't need reminders.