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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope Beyoncé knows what she’s doing because her daughter is only 13 years old, she looks much older than that and she is very pretty. I would be worried about it, but I’m not her mom. I have no opinion on her talent or abilities because I know zero about that.[/quote]

Black girls always look older to some people :roll:  [/quote]

Only if dressed to show cleavage and tight clothes. Same goes for white girls. [/quote] You can think what you want about Blue Ivy but you should educate yourself on adultification. [url]https://genderjusticeandopportunity.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/girlhood-interrupted.pdf[/url][/quote]

Talk to Blue’s parents, who are clearly adultifying her at the age of 13.[/quote]
*sigh*    These are important conversations and I don't mind having them, but you really have to at least educate yourself on the topic before participating.  You keep blaming Beyoncé, but adultification isn’t about what a parent lets their kid wear, it’s about how you and society project adult or sexual meanings onto Black girls who are just being kids.

Blue Ivy performing in a sparkly outfit doesn’t make her grown. What makes her ‘look grown’ to you is adultification bias, the same bias that research shows leads people to see Black girls as older, less innocent, and more sexual than they actually are.

That’s not on Beyoncé. That’s on you[/quote]

DP. I think the disconnect is that you and PP are talking about separate things. You are talking about a well documented phenomenon where black children are adultified in our community in comparison to white children. For example, if a hypothetical person saw a white girl and a black girl on a playground, or in the same fifth grade class, said person may view or treat the black child differently. It’s a harmful phenomenon.

But I think PP is talking about the choices that Blue Ivy’s parents are making that seem harmful to her childhood.

Taking race out of it, Britney Spears was 16 when Hit Me Baby came out. She was dressed as a schoolgirl, complete with braids and knee high socks. At 16. Her parents and she made choices that led to her being sexualized as a child.

Putting Blue Ivy on tour, in certain clothing, having her dance suggestively (similar to Britney Spears) will likely lead to her “adultification”. And that part is not due to race, but to choices she and her parents are making.

For the record I don’t see anything from her as harmful as what Britney was doing at 16. Still, having her be to public at this young age is… probably not good for her. [/quote]

+1 Thank you. Exactly![/quote]

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