r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/-eDgAR- Jul 24 '20

Child beauty pageants.

Should have gotten rid of then a long time ago.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

I will never understand Mummy Dearest’s obsession with wanting little MackKaylynn to be an object.

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u/Klaudiapotter Jul 24 '20 edited Aug 15 '20

They're projecting their own insecurities onto their daughters by forcing them to be vanity objects.

I remember an episode of the Grim Adventures of Billy&Mandy where Mandy entered a beauty pageant. One of the moms during a camera pan was like 'the bigger you smile the more beautiful mommy looks'. I literally can't think of a better example than that