What If Beauty Pageants Were About Geekiness But Otherwise Completely Unchanged?

Reddit commenters gave us a little taste of what that might be like (in the best possible way) when imclassythx posted this picture under the heading This Is Why My Daughter Is Cooler Than Yours. A challenger quickly arose:

(devitch)

And then that challenger was challenged (with an offer of friendship).

(Chipswarmedals)

So the answer is, child beauty pageants based on geekiness would probably still be awful, with lots of parents living vicariously through their children and projecting their own wants and desires onto them. Best to keep it like this, the internet equivalent of proud parents sharing wallet photos.

(Original Reddit thread here)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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