Is this the best that the UK can do for its children - Glamour Pageants?

I personally despise the decadence and squalid nature of our superficial capitalist society.

Children have to be taught the values and norms of our society. One of our most treasured values is materialism expressed through conspicuous consumption. These children have to be trained as role models for little girls and examples for boys everywhere of what 'real' women are. Real women are consumers above all else; they consume products for themselves and their families. Their need must be endless, and the emptiness only fleetingly filled by one product after another, fashions being above all ephemeral.

All they do is treat children as pretty objects , then wonder why when they grow up cynical and hard , And turn into users . Parents (I us the word very loosely) who treat their children as cash cows should be prosecuted for cruelty and have no right to have the responsibility for a young child's well being. Many years ago i worked in the media of TV advertising , Seldom have i seen any worst cases of maladjusted children who acted more like petulant adults than children , and the mothers were something to behold i would not put any one of them in charge of a water buffalo let alone a vulnerable child.

Their mothers must have heads full of cotton wool and they are bringing up their daughters in the same way- empty headed, vain & talentless.

It's perfectly reasonable.

Like that once girl who wasn't pretty enough at the Beijing Olympics.

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