14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, one very peculiar petition on Change.org got international media attention, though, at the time, not too many signatures. It was started by a woman named Jasmine Toliver, who claimed to be a haircare person and demanded of A-list couple Beyonce and Jay Z to comb daughter Blue Ivy’s hair.
Of all the things this Toliver person could have started a petition for, she chose to do it for the state of the hair of a 2-year-old girl who just happens to be “famous” because she was born into the most successful family in music right now.
The initiative prompted a lot of hilarity online, but the ladies on ABC’s The View are definitely not finding it a laughing matter. And they’re not even considering the fact that the petition continues to gather signatures: it had a little over 3,000 at the time we covered the topic, and is now at well over 5,000.
Embedded below is a segment from a recent The View show, in which hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd, along with guest co-host Carolina Bermudez, discussed just how appropriate such a petition was.
Whoopi, for one, seemed particularly offended with the initiative, telling the person who stated the petition that she needed to “get a life” because picking on 2-year-old kids’ hair is by no means that.
“They are claiming it's a mess of dreads,” she said. “You know what? You all should get a life! She's 2 years old!” Whoopi concluded that, even if Toliver is a haircare person, unless she’s touched Blue Ivy’s hair, she can’t pass judgments on her hair, let alone go online to try and force her mother’s hand into combing her hair.
Basically, because Toliver has only seen Blue Ivy’s hair in pictures, she has no right to speak up because she’s only saying ignorant things.
“You know, it's when people start commenting on babies or anyone's children, it's the rudest, most cruel thing you can do. It should end there!,” Jenny McCarthy chimed in.
Bermudez agreed, adding that a child should never be held to adult beauty standards, referring to the way in which the petition argued that, because Beyonce spends so much money on her hair, she should not let Blue Ivy go about with dry and uncombed hair like “a sheep.”
Sherri was the only one who tried to explain how come the petition got started, but she was shut down almost immediately.
“You know, so many black people, the way we do our children's hair, especially as little girl, we take and — you've seen little black girls with a bunch of ponytail rings with the barrettes and baby hai. This is a black woman who started this. So many folks, it's such a thing we are used to that,” she said.
Even so, the petition does target a 2-year-old. There is no way this can be right.
