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To me, beauty pageants are a matter of choice. The feminist movement was about choice. While I do have issues with child pageants, the fact is that If an adult woman decides to enter a pageant that is fine with me. She is an adult able to make her choice. It is her choice, not yours or mine.

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.