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MotorCityMan

(1,203 posts)
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:26 PM Sep 2016

Grown Adults Are Calling Blue Ivy Ugly On The Internet: This Is How Women Develop Self-Esteem Issues

"...This week, musical powerhouse Beyonce walked the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards with her daughter Blue Ivy. Since Blue Ivy’s birth, the child has been subjected to harsh criticism about her appearance. And reactions to her recent VMA appearance on Twitter and other social media were beyond embarrassing.

“So are we all just supposed to pretend that Blue Ivy isn’t ugly as hell forever?” asked Twitter user @keltheyrich who also went on to write “...Blue Ivy is ugly as sin and there’s no way around it....”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/5258796f-7497-3eb4-bd41-9959df3567a5/ss_grown-adults-are-calling-blue.html

What in the hell is WRONG with people? Blue Ivy is a beautiful little girl. I can't help thinking this is connected to Guiliani and his disgustingly inappropriate vendatta against Beyonce.

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Grown Adults Are Calling Blue Ivy Ugly On The Internet: This Is How Women Develop Self-Esteem Issues (Original Post) MotorCityMan Sep 2016 OP
Her parents most likely taught her how to deal with the public. upaloopa Sep 2016 #1
Uh, she's 4! Laurian Sep 2016 #3
Right. She's 4 melman Sep 2016 #4
4 year old shouldn't be going to VMA's yeoman6987 Sep 2016 #27
What if they say they are 28 but are actually 47? CreekDog Sep 2016 #29
You're qualified to lecture people about age? Codeine Sep 2016 #32
She's a beautiful baby. What's wrong with these people? Squinch Sep 2016 #2
+1, she looks great.... buncha Haters uponit7771 Sep 2016 #34
Why would anyone feel it's acceptable to comment negatively about a child's appearance? Shrike47 Sep 2016 #5
Racists are crazy - they did it to Obama's girls womanofthehills Sep 2016 #14
Or Rush Limbaugh (who called 13-year-old Chelsea Clinton "the White House dog). nt tblue37 Sep 2016 #18
Just the kids in the basement acting up again - let me get my broom and go down there! n/t Peregrine Took Sep 2016 #6
Well, whop them upside the head one time for me while you're down there. Arkansas Granny Sep 2016 #9
Sorry to say, but I guess it is Racism. She looks more "black" than her mother, to them I guess. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2016 #7
To be fair, there's a LOT of batshit insanity and celebrity hate Blue_Tires Sep 2016 #8
Well I can't stand beyonce Egnever Sep 2016 #10
She's beautiful. What the hell is wrong with people? nt Ilsa Sep 2016 #11
Internalized racism and self hatred. Unfortunately it is a sickness that even we black people battle Liberal_Stalwart71 Sep 2016 #12
They're racists. Is what's wrong with them. GeorgeGist Sep 2016 #13
Why do you keep calling them racists? toddwv Sep 2016 #28
she has been called ugly since she was born. Along with many other celeb kids JI7 Sep 2016 #15
She's really cute. The ugly is the people who have so much hate in their hearts. duncang Sep 2016 #16
For god's sake, she's a TODDLER! What on earth is wrong with some people! smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #17
Here's a cute picture of her in her red carpet outfit: tblue37 Sep 2016 #19
She's a beautiful little girl, MicaelS Sep 2016 #25
Yes, she is a precious little doll. But even if she were homerly rather than cute as a button, tblue37 Sep 2016 #35
She looks like a normal little kid, but in a fabulous dress for the VMAs. tammywammy Sep 2016 #20
Always expect the worse from the internet peanut gallery and you'll still be appalled. Throd Sep 2016 #21
Seriously what the fuck is wrong with people??? Initech Sep 2016 #22
She looks cute to me! Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2016 #23
Since I'm not familiar with Blue Ivy's looks Wednesdays Sep 2016 #24
I don't get it. madaboutharry Sep 2016 #26
While vulgar behavior I had no idea who the post was referring to... JanMichael Sep 2016 #30
To answer your question, too many people are f*ckin' asshole idiot MH1 Sep 2016 #31
keltheyrich is gone from twitter Takket Sep 2016 #33
More than likely she changed her SN after getting attention from this article IVoteDFL Sep 2016 #38
There is no such thing as an ugly child. Just ugly adults. AgadorSparticus Sep 2016 #36
I'm just glad people stopped implying blue ivy is the anti Christ IVoteDFL Sep 2016 #37

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. Her parents most likely taught her how to deal with the public.
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:36 PM
Sep 2016

She knows there are ass holes in the world.

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
5. Why would anyone feel it's acceptable to comment negatively about a child's appearance?
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:45 PM
Sep 2016

People feel so free to be horrid on the Internet, things they would never say in public (unless they were Ann Coulter).

womanofthehills

(8,703 posts)
14. Racists are crazy - they did it to Obama's girls
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 04:09 PM
Sep 2016

The kids will be fine - they are loved by many. One of my neighbors who has schizophrenia kept posting anti-Obama stuff on Facebook. Because of her mental fragility I let it go until she posted a negative comment about Sasha and Malia. I posted back to her that kids are off limits and she unfriended me - worked out well. Her husband who is not a Trump supporter also unfriended me - sticking with the wife's racism.

The few people I know who are for Trump, I knew were all racists before Trump was even running.



Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
7. Sorry to say, but I guess it is Racism. She looks more "black" than her mother, to them I guess.
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:49 PM
Sep 2016

Of course it doesn't matter in the final analysis.

Blue, brown, black -- All colors are beautiful.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
8. To be fair, there's a LOT of batshit insanity and celebrity hate
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:49 PM
Sep 2016

spewed out on twitter, especially from the millennial and younger crowd...

I'll never understand why some nobody with 284 followers to her name warrants mention in a story like this, though... (probably because she has a hawt avatar, sadly)

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
10. Well I can't stand beyonce
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 03:55 PM
Sep 2016

Her kid is cute though.

Not sure why twitter trolls get coverage. The internet is full of stupid hateful shit about everyone. Pick a person you can find hateful garbage about them on twitter no matter what color they are.

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
28. Why do you keep calling them racists?
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:21 PM
Sep 2016

Sure they act racists, say racists things all the time, and treat anyone who doesn't have white skin as second-class citizens who are too stupid to "get off the plantation" and stop voting against their best interests? But is it racist?

JI7

(89,248 posts)
15. she has been called ugly since she was born. Along with many other celeb kids
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 04:09 PM
Sep 2016

Who are compared to their parents and just the ugly bullying that comes with social media.

I guess it makes some people feel better .

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
17. For god's sake, she's a TODDLER! What on earth is wrong with some people!
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 05:18 PM
Sep 2016

Besides, she's adorable! Are people so filled with hate that they have to take it out on a four year old little girl? I swear, sometimes I just hate this world.

tblue37

(65,340 posts)
35. Yes, she is a precious little doll. But even if she were homerly rather than cute as a button,
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 12:51 PM
Sep 2016

there would be no excuse for such comments about a child. None.

However, the jerks making such comments certainly expose how uglythey are, as well as how incredibly racist. Their nastiness toward a little girl is disgusting in and of itself, but their inability to see the child's evident, objective beauty proves that they can't see past her skin color and that to them anyone who is not white is by definition "ugly."

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)
20. She looks like a normal little kid, but in a fabulous dress for the VMAs.
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 05:31 PM
Sep 2016

Haters gonna hate.

I think we know what Beyoncé thinks:

I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros
I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils

Initech

(100,068 posts)
22. Seriously what the fuck is wrong with people???
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 05:39 PM
Sep 2016

If that's what they have to complain about, maybe we could buy these people a one-way plane ticket to Somalia for a couple of weeks.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
23. She looks cute to me!
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 05:43 PM
Sep 2016

I honestly didn't know about anyone named Blue Ivy until I saw this thread, but I think she's a cutie!

I don't follow celebrities and their children very much at all.

Wednesdays

(17,362 posts)
24. Since I'm not familiar with Blue Ivy's looks
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 06:17 PM
Sep 2016

I had to look her up. After that, my immediate thought was, "THAT'S ugly? In what freaking universe?"

JanMichael

(24,885 posts)
30. While vulgar behavior I had no idea who the post was referring to...
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 09:02 PM
Sep 2016

...If after the : it hadn't said "Women" I would have agreed since our neighbors have totally uncontrolled ivy everywhere.

MH1

(17,600 posts)
31. To answer your question, too many people are f*ckin' asshole idiot
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 09:04 PM
Sep 2016

scumbag useless pieces of excrement.

That's the only explanation I can come up with for the behavior you refer to.

Takket

(21,563 posts)
33. keltheyrich is gone from twitter
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 09:39 PM
Sep 2016

don't know if this loser deleted their account or was banned. either way the internet is a better place. thanks for exposing these cowards media!

IVoteDFL

(417 posts)
38. More than likely she changed her SN after getting attention from this article
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 01:51 PM
Sep 2016

Beyonce fans go hard on twitter. They probably started tweeting her until she renamed her account.

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
36. There is no such thing as an ugly child. Just ugly adults.
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 01:08 PM
Sep 2016

And apparently, really nasty and pathetic ones at that. Grow the F*ck up people! ERRRRRRR......

IVoteDFL

(417 posts)
37. I'm just glad people stopped implying blue ivy is the anti Christ
Sat Sep 3, 2016, 01:48 PM
Sep 2016

Conspiracy nuts have had it out for this child since the day she was born.

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