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1. Harlan Ellison wrote an essay 50 years ago
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 10:41 AM
Aug 2020

talking about a teen beauty pageant. Now he didn't have a prudish bone in his body, but even he was shocked.

Harlan writes of the ‘Our Little Miss’ Variety Pageant:

“Then they brought out the half-dozen La Petite division children. Ages three to six. Tiny. My god, small. Innocent. And…oh, Jesus Jesus…they had blue eyeliner and lipstick and that awful model’s pose…three to six years old…Oh, Christ! They look twenty-five!
“How can they do it? How can they turn kids under six into jaded strumpets of twenty–five? Mother of God, they all look like hookers!
It’s been years since I’ve felt the need to cry.
My lady, Cindy, watching the pageant with me, said in a stunned voice, “the producers of this thing must be ex-convicts who’ve served time for child molestation!” (p. 147) "The Glass Teat"

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