Ashley Bush Online

We went to the Fair this weekend. Our county fair is the biggest fair in the state. We’ve won several awards and it gets bigger each year. As you walk through the grounds you see the typical rides, the Demolition Derby, Fair Food, Hypnotist, Exhibits etc. However, this year as we were walking the grounds we noticed something different. We saw a booth advertising the World’s Smallest Woman. She’s only 29 inches tall. The advertisement was the most degrading thing I’ve ever seen! Real Life! She’ll even talk to you! For crying out loud. It’s a human being! People were standing in line and paying 50 cents to see this poor woman who happens to be little.  They had her in a holding tank like she was a fish.  Part of me wanted to see what she looked like. But I would have felt really uncomfortable actually looking in her eyes knowing she knows I was willing to pay money just to look at her. I wonder what happened in her life that lead her to traveling the country just to be looked at as a freak of nature. Of course, if she’s that little, she may not be able to hold a normal job. I guess this is one of the many problems in our society.