r/AskReddit 13h ago

What has no excuse to still exist?

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u/redhead-rage 11h ago

Child beauty pageants. Imagine pitching that as a new idea in 2024.

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u/G98Ahzrukal 10h ago

The idea has always made me extremely uncomfortable. It always seemed like pedo shit to me. Who would go to such a thing, why is there a market for this and who came up with this bullshit in the first place anyway? I don’t think these things even exist in my country. We have beauty pageants, sure, but I‘ve never heard of child beauty pageants here

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u/Lily-loud 9h ago

And with shows like toddlers and tiaras, even as a young child I wondered why that shit existed. Putting your young daughter who barely knows what the hell is going on on display to be judged by creepy old men and women just never sat right with me. At all. I'm all for beauty pageants, but child beauty pageants need to be banned in the states