Meanings
- informaluncountableThe process of making or becoming girly or hyperfeminine.
Indeed, if anything, the sugary pink “princessification” of girlhood feels more extreme than ever.
2013, "Glosswitch", "Don't be too quick to knock sugar-pink, prince-free, Disney-style princessification", New Statesman, 29 July 20132 more examples
But while I'm not convinced that pinkification and princessification is the same as sexualisation and pornification, I do think the stereotyped rhetoric accompanying the pink-quake is A Real Worry.
2011 March 12, Emma Jane, “Princessification of girlhood gives this mum a pink fit”, in The AustralianThere are two reasons my feelings towards Disney are slightly frosty. First, I cannot stand the princessification (no, it’s not a word but it should be) of girls’ childhoods that has happened over the past couple of decades, something for which it is largely responsible.
2012 June 24, Clare Heal, “Milne’s music strikes right note”, in Daily Express
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