Beauty pageants keeping it real...mostly

(The Signal 3.1)

Kudos to beauty pageants like the upcoming Miss OBU pageant. This is just a great way for girls to show off their stuff (personality and intelligence, that is) and compete to earn scholarships through the Miss America Organization. Unfortunately there are some pageants out there, such as Miss USA, that are not as honorable as Miss America and do not require talent from their contestants who essentially compete to win modeling opportunities. Recently though, Miss USA has been trying to improve its reputation (hard to do with The Donald still in charge) by holding its winner to higher standards and publicly condemning her for acting like a sex object...wait how do girls win this again? Oh right, by acting like a sex object. Funny how that works. Fortunately we still have the Miss America system to uphold a set of higher values in the pageant community. Now only if they could learn from those small town pageants and get the 5-8 year old demographic involved to encourage more parents to paint their barely-out-of-diapers girls up like Barbie dolls and parade them around on stage just to further their own financial well-being while stripping their daughter of her innocence and exploiting the fact that she does not know any better so when she grows up she can look back and remember the good old' days of the childhood she never had because it is tucked away in mom and dad's bank account. At least that's what some people say. I'm sure it's really not like that at all.