as a former pageant kid the amount of emotional abuse i went through because of my mother always pushing me to be beautiful and then blaming me and hating me when i didnt win was fucked up. being a pageant kid gave me an eating disorder and has seriously fucked with my self esteem. don’t put your kids through this. don’t let your 5 year old be objectified by others and yourself.
“Beautiful soul, in whom I live when I have utterly lost myself, how I love myself when I see myself in you…in me the one who has departed lives on, and with him I live in you! The chain is extended, not broken!”
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Richard Wagner in a letter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria dated 8 August 1865
An interesting fact is that Wagner, in this particular letter, chose to refer to Ludwig using the familiar/informal “du” rather than the formal pronoun “Sie” that we usually see him (and others) using when referring to his highness.
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