I take this opportunity to engage in one of my occasional anti-American rants. They usually happen when I am overwhelmed by the guilt of being a self-hating German and ranting about American shortcomings usually helps. (For the dumb: That was sarcasm.) This time it's about the sick, perverted American cult of "proms", "beauty pageants" and - worst - "children's beauty pageants". The difference is that the former lets a sixteen-year old girl look like a 30-vear old hooker, while the latter lets a four-year old girl look like a 30-year old CHEAP hooker.
There are many theories about who killed the little girl. Whether the unspeakable Ramsey woman killed her child or not is not for me to judge. To me, a mother who pimps her little girl to pose "sexily" in revealing outfits in front of a bunch of sick paederasts after she has lumbered her, true to form, with a pretentious, crappy name like "JonBenet" for life, has killed her child's soul anyway long before her physical death.
Aren't any feminists or child protection groups out there fighting this sort of degenerate spectacles? But I guess they are too busy fantasising about an all-dyke society and how to reduce men to sperm-donor status and are dispassionately watching when tiny girls are victimised for their mothers' need for vicarious fame and not-quite-so-vicarious profit.
Women can't do any wrong and children have no lobby.
And yes, my non-American reader, "beauty pageants", those for children included, are a multi-billion business and the girl below is not older than six. She can't be older because she was six when she was murdered. Or rather, the killer killed what her mother hadn't killed before.
"Love, purity and joy" said the inscription on JonBenet's tombstone, just those three things the little girl surely did NOT possess anymore when she died.
I remember having once read about the "Münchhausen-by-proxy-syndrome", a condition that lets mothers or other carers clandestinely make their children or charges sick, or, when they are sick already, even sicker, to get attention and praise for their "care". Children are known to have died from this.
Only women are suffering from this "syndrome". If men were largely guilty of this, nobody would have bothered to introduce a special medical condition, fancy name included.
It would have been simply called "Evil".
First posted at Roncesvalles, June 25, 2006.
