This ten year old vogue model seems like the horrific answer to that question posed by one of Dorothy Allison’s characters…





“What’s a south carolina virgin? At’s a ten-year-old can run fast.”

Constructed as a pedophile’s dream “seductress”, posed to titillate as tween sexual serf stand-in for coat hanger thin adult sexual object…
Clearly, this poor little one hasn’t been able to run fast or far enough…

my nine year old has been talking quite a bit about that show for toddler beauty queens. i’ve been talking to her about children raised to be entertainment, objects of desire, devoid of self concept and grounding. this young child’s plight will help illustrate exactly what i’ve been trying to explain.

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