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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The hair texture is what I’m interested in. Skin color, probably a smooth olive with eventual freckles!

But the hair... ooh the hair .. we shall see! I hope it’s AA![/quote]

She’ll have a red afro!  :D [/quote]

I know a lot of white folks love biracial/multiracial babies, but it's interesting how y'all are fetishizing this baby before it's even here.[/quote]

I’m the OP, and I’m a black woman... but, OK Ms. Know-It-All.[/quote]Plenty of white AND Black women fetishisize mixed babies, as evidenced by all the obnoxious mixed babies Re cute hashtags on Instat.[/quote]

I'm the PPP, and you're right.  I'm biracial (black/brown) myself and while I've heard comments more from white women, a few black women do it too, especially in the South where I grew up.  [/quote]

It’s definitely both.  My sister and her dh have made beautiful biracial kids. Both sides of the family really fetishized their looks especially before they were born.  [b]It really rubbed me the wrong way. [/b]Relatives on both sides of the family wanted the children to be light-skinned babies with white features. (I hope he gets his hair, her lips, his nose, her coloring, his eyes) People also went crazy about the idea of having a biracial child with blue eyes. They got big, beautiful brown eyes. [/quote]

PP.  That's stuff I don't care for either, but we live in a society that prioritizes European features and exoticizes (is that a word?) biracial people with the "right" look.  When I was a teen, one girl told me I could "pass," and said it in a way that was clear that she saw this as a positive.

My spouse and I got the same comments when I was pregnant ("They're going to have that really curly hair, I love it!" "will they get your blue eyes?" etc.).  I know it's not coming from a place of malice, and people usually aren't self-reflective enough enough to really hear what they're saying, so I just rolled with it.[/quote]

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