Changed slightly in February:
She doesn't look to bad for being "homeless." How many FReepers remember the Pitiful Pearl doll?
Posted on 09/24/2009 10:31:00 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Barbie she's not. Meet Gwen Thompson, the newest addition to the American Girl canon of dolls -- the wildly suc cessful, extremely expensive brand of faux children that are sold out of a four-story town house in the heart of Fifth Avenue.
Little children as young as 4 are addicted to these pricey little monsters. It's like middle-American crack.
You have an African-American doll, an American Indian doll. A Jewish one. A doll who "lived" during the Great Depression, and one from the Roaring '20s.
And while you were snoozing, the creators of American Girl, which is sold by Mattel, got bold. They engaged in all-out political indoctrination.
Snuck into the collection is a doll that comes with a biography that is weird and potentially offensive enough to keep Mom running to the Maalox. Gwen, you see, is harboring a terrible secret.
She is homeless. A homeless doll.
In the history books that come with every American Girl doll -- bringing to life these little monsters until impressionable little ones believe they are actual people -- you learn that Gwen's father walked out on the family. Her mother lost her job.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I dont get it. Once you buy it and take it home...its not homeless anymore is it? Looney.
“”””keep Mom running to the Maalox.”””””
Maybe “mom” should... I don’t know.... don’t buy the thing? Maybe?
Let me guess - the doll lives in a box?
Glad my daughter is 26, got her Samantha doll at age 10 and we can be done with crap.
They could make an American Muslim Girl doll—with hijab, and the storyline could include being sold into marriage as a nine-year-old, with an honor killing thrown in if she refuses.
A long time ago, before Mattel bought out the company, these were beautiful dolls.
“At Last!”
“It’s about time.”
“Mama! I want the Muslim Barbie!!”
“Razanne prays with the family, makes wudu, eats only halal food.”
“When playtime is over,Razanne is neatly dressed and put back on the shelf in her place of honor.”
Changed slightly in February:
She doesn't look to bad for being "homeless." How many FReepers remember the Pitiful Pearl doll?
That’s just silly for her to live in a box when you can buy her a $250 tree house and furnish it with a $30 sleeping bag. Or sleep in her $107 horse’s $60 stable or a $40 tent. No, that discarded box found in the dumpster can be used to make her own soapbox scooter for $24. Her banana seat bike at $80 is about 3-4 times as much as my real full sized bike with the blue sparkly banana seat.
Get a load of this - “New American Girl Doll Shares Name With Fugitive.”
Hehe - thanks for the memories. My banana seat bicycle with the *gold* sparkly seat that I got on a Christmas morning many years ago, and it was warm enough that day to ride it outside without a jacket (glo-bull warming - HA!)...
What next? a doll that is being hurt by “global warming?”
The next one will be Health Care Hannah. She comes with a bona fide US Government-issued health insurance policy and a shredded copy of the Constitution.
Collect ‘em all!
She got a boob belt.
I wonder what the reaction would be if she was homeless because mommy was a crack ho.
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