[Dixie Yooper]

"It turns otherwise decent girls into materialistic spoiled b!tches, who believe that acting a certain way for men is the way to get what you want"

There's plenty of middle ground, your the one who slammed it hard to the wall. As far as your comment above, I grew up in an rural area where there were no beauty pageants, but somehow the girls that were destined to, learned how to act like scum and rise to the top of the swamp. Some were poor, some were rich, several were in between. The only thing they all had in common were bad manners and parents that didn't spend the right kind of time with them.
I am sorry to hear about your problems that you have gone though and hope all is back on track now.

[Conservative Texan Mom]

Patsy Ramsey was a former beauty pageant queen. I can't remember which state.

A few years back there was an interesting interview that Barbara Walters did with the Ramseys. Something that came to light was that Patsy started JonBenet in the pageants following the recovery of stage four ovarian cancer. Her husband commented that he felt she did that because she was uncertain of how much time she had left to raise her daughter and wanted to share something that had been special to her with her daughter. Patsy said that that was true. Pageants had been a very wonderful experience to her, and she didn't know if her cancer would return soon. I can completely understand her thinking. pageants aren't my thing, but if I felt that I might only have five years or so left with my children, I would want to share significant experiences with them. It's amazing that Patsy lived as long as she did following that type of cancer. Certainly she never imagined that this choice might expose her daughter to harm, if that is even how the perp came to know of JonBenet.