Puberty Is Racist!

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A new study finds U.S. girls are reaching puberty at earlier ages:

Compared to the 1997 findings from girls across the U.S., girls in the current study – especially white girls – were more developed at a younger age. As previous research has shown, there were also large differences in development based on race.
At age 7, approximately 10 percent of white girls and 23 percent of black girls had started developing breasts – compared to 5 percent of white girls and 15 percent of black girls in 1997, the authors write.
Among 8-year-olds in the study, 18 percent of white girls and 43 percent of black girls had entered puberty – an increase from around 11 percent of white girls from 1997, but the same as black girls in that year.

So, black girls were more than twice as likely to have entered puberty before age 9. Will Al Sharpton lead a protest march against puberty, which is clearly guilty of racial discrimination?

28 comments

  1. I can’t imagine! 7! I’ve read that puberty’s onset is a lot earlier among girls whose father’s aren’t present. So it’s not puberty that’s racist. It’s those little girls’ fathers.

  2. I can’t imagine! 7! I’ve read that puberty’s onset is a lot earlier among girls whose father’s aren’t present. So it’s not puberty that’s racist. It’s those little girls’ fathers.

  7. Jokes aside, there is something not good about this accelerating rate of puberty.

    A father not being present accelerates puberty? Really?

  8. Jokes aside, there is something not good about this accelerating rate of puberty.

    A father not being present accelerates puberty? Really?

  11. That’s interesting, Ben. It’s almost as though nature has a “readiness ratio” to determine if the body is ready to start doing its fecund duty.

    And someone will find a way to call this racist. They’ll blame it on Frank Perdue. A way will be found to manufacture a grievance from this. Just you wait.

  12. That’s interesting, Ben. It’s almost as though nature has a “readiness ratio” to determine if the body is ready to start doing its fecund duty.

    And someone will find a way to call this racist. They’ll blame it on Frank Perdue. A way will be found to manufacture a grievance from this. Just you wait.

  13. 7 years old? 8 years old? I’d guess it’s part-diet, part-sexualized culture. But mother nature’s racist tendencies are probably a better explanation.

    I always thought the tendency of birds to flock/reproduce with only their own species was an obvious symbol of racism.

  14. 7 years old? 8 years old? I’d guess it’s part-diet, part-sexualized culture. But mother nature’s racist tendencies are probably a better explanation.

    I always thought the tendency of birds to flock/reproduce with only their own species was an obvious symbol of racism.

  17. I always thought the tendency of birds to flock/reproduce with only their own species was an obvious symbol of racism.

    Arguments from nature, arguments from history, arguments based on observed facts — whenever the political class takes interest in a subject, all such arguments must yield to whatever ideological abstractions are involved. There was a time, about a century ago, when the political class was obsessed with Darwinian evolution as distinguishing “advanced” from “primitive” peoples, and therefore endorsed eugenics, etc. Now, of course, the obsessions of the political class are different, and so they argue in terms of other abstractions. The principle is the same, however, and the politically motivated abuse of truth is just as obnoxious and harmful.

  18. I always thought the tendency of birds to flock/reproduce with only their own species was an obvious symbol of racism.

    Arguments from nature, arguments from history, arguments based on observed facts — whenever the political class takes interest in a subject, all such arguments must yield to whatever ideological abstractions are involved. There was a time, about a century ago, when the political class was obsessed with Darwinian evolution as distinguishing “advanced” from “primitive” peoples, and therefore endorsed eugenics, etc. Now, of course, the obsessions of the political class are different, and so they argue in terms of other abstractions. The principle is the same, however, and the politically motivated abuse of truth is just as obnoxious and harmful.

  21. Islamic countries consider early onset female puberty to be Allah’s way of saying it’s all right to marry 9 year olds. Hey, it was good enough for MoHammed, it’s good enough for the Jihadis.

  22. Islamic countries consider early onset female puberty to be Allah’s way of saying it’s all right to marry 9 year olds. Hey, it was good enough for MoHammed, it’s good enough for the Jihadis.

  25. Early onset of female puberty is highly correlated with breast and ovarian cancer (esp. at young ages). I wonder how this will play out with the Obama Administration’s statement that it’s not worthwhile to screen women for breast cancer until they are 50. Racist?

  26. Early onset of female puberty is highly correlated with breast and ovarian cancer (esp. at young ages). I wonder how this will play out with the Obama Administration’s statement that it’s not worthwhile to screen women for breast cancer until they are 50. Racist?

  27. Another possibility: the presence of a biological father tends to delay puberty. Google Science Daily article “Father-Daughter Relationship Crucial To When Girls Enter Puberty, Researchers Say”

    “The researchers found that girls raised in father-absent homes or dysfunctional father-present homes experienced relatively early pubertal timing.”

    Does the puberty rate correlate with the illegitimacy rate?

  28. Another possibility: the presence of a biological father tends to delay puberty. Google Science Daily article “Father-Daughter Relationship Crucial To When Girls Enter Puberty, Researchers Say”

    “The researchers found that girls raised in father-absent homes or dysfunctional father-present homes experienced relatively early pubertal timing.”

    Does the puberty rate correlate with the illegitimacy rate?

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