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This comic look at our societys obsession with, and skewed view of, beauty comes through the inevitable combination of a Junior Miss America Pageant and American Idol.

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It was last updated on July 15, 2008, 3:17 pm
It was originally posted: 2008-07-15 18:07:01
By Jim Jewell

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Its every middle school girl’s, and her mother’s, dream (or nightmare!) come true—Beauty Idol. Are you pretty, skinny, talented enough for America to love you? Or for you to love yourself? We meet our contestants, and their mothers, and quickly see who is truly themselves and who is merely a reflection of their mother's dreams. That is not an easy balancing act to master at any age. With the judges just as beauty obsessed and stereotype-prone, this promises to be one heck of a pageant. The parade of contestants show us each of their labels—jock, drama queen, mean twin, disabled, and so on—letting us know just who we should expect to see as the evening wears on.

Even without their mothers, or the judges, watching them, the girls’ true, and sometimes cruel, natures start to show. When the talent segment begins, one group does a cheer that gets the judges’ attention. But the other group, trying to express their individuality, make a clamorous noise—until shy and insecure Lisa steps forward and reads a beautiful poem she wrote. Her twin seethes with jealousy, as their mom tries to teach her that “you can’t raise yourself up by standing on the neck of somebody else.”

During the Q&A portion, we are finally able to see inside to the truth of some of the girls: their pain, their pride, their desire to be allowed to be themselves as they are. Of course, the mothers still have a lot to learn from, and about, their daughters. When the judges ask the mothers a question, the women take to verbally attacking one another on many levels. Luckily, the girls walk in and realize that all the bile being spewed by the moms is what’s been landing in their ears all these years, and those attitudes are going to change! They will define their own beauty from now on.

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