I don't really see how that's similar in any way at all, and it seems like you're trying to inject a pet hate into the conversation.

Oh dear...

> It's becoming a career decision to neglect your children so you can claim special needs status and therefore disability benefit (and celebrity status on FaceBook amongst peers).

This is a hateful stigmatising lie.

Citation needed.

Then I'm not sure what you're looking for. What does it say about our society except that we like pretty girls and the contestants like the competition?

> I dislike the existence of beauty competitions that are aimed at children. Miss Teen USA is aimed at ages 15 to 19.

To me this sounds like you are defending Miss Teen USA, but I know that's not your point. To make your position clear, you should explain why you believe 15-19 year olds are children who are not capable of making the decision to enter a beauty competition.

To be clear: people in that age range are engaging in all sorts of competitions, from sports to academics, and they are given all sorts of responsibilities and privileges such as holding jobs, driving cars, having sex, choosing a career path or course of study, enlisting in the military (or ROTC), etc., so why is this one category of competition/activity so egregious and inappropriate?

The article mentions guiltless teenagers/children being coerced into submitting sexually (performing webcam shows doing whatever he asks) to an unseen attacker under the threat of public humiliation, and your response is 'huh teen beauty pageants are stupid.' Remarking off-handedly only on this and nothing else suggests that the rest isn't interesting or isn't that big a deal- I'm taking exception to this attitude.

It's like if someone were kidnapped in Key West and you wrote "ugh everything is so overpriced there." It's excessively flippant.