Posted on 02/06/2021 5:37:50 PM PST by Ennis85
American Girl, a doll and storybook brand beloved by young girls since the 1980s, has released a “2021 Girl of the Year” named Kira whose story featuring aunts in a same-sex “marriage” has taken parents and children by surprise.
“Kira's aunts are married lesbians, and that needs to be known by every adult who hands the book to a child or who allows a child to check it out from the library,” said one book reviewer on Amazon.
The character Kira, along with her doll avatar, was revealed as “2021 Girl of the Year” on Good Morning America on Dec. 31, 2020. She was described on the show as caring “deeply about animals and the environment, and important ecological issues like wildlife protection and climate change.”
Launched in 2001, “Girl of the Year” is a line of American Girl characters “who experience modern-day issues and give voice to a diverse range of personalities and backgrounds,” as the American Girl website explains.
Kira’s own story, Kira Down Under, revolves around a summer trip to her Aunt Mamie’s wildlife sanctuary in Australia, where she helps her aunt care for animals. According to the book description, Kira’s “joy is complete” when spending time with an orphaned koala, “until a health emergency pulls Aunt Mamie away.” However, no mention is made in the description that Aunt Mamie is “married” to another woman, “Aunt Lynette.”
Two reviewers noted that the story includes a “wedding” picture of Aunt Mamie and the woman named Lynette.
“In the book, she explains that her aunts married ‘after the law was changed to allow it,’ referring to Australian Parliament’s 2017 decision to legalize gay marriage [sic], two years after the U.S. Supreme Court did the same,” Elise Solé explained, writing for Yahoo Life.
Numerous reviewers explained their distress after they and their children were caught off-guard by the references to the same-sex relationship.
“Shocked to see a lesbian couple in a children’s book from American Girl. Very disappointing because I have always trusted American Girl until now,” commented one reviewer.
Another noted, “Homosexuality is an inappropriate topic for a children’s book and I am very disappointed that it was woven so blatantly into the story line for Kira. This type of content should have been made clear in the advertising so that I as a parent could make an informed choice for my child. My daughter and I have read dozens of American Girl books and have always loved them and highly recommended them to friends. Before now, I have never had to worry about American Girl reading material being wholesome for my child. My daughter had no idea what a lesbian couple is and American Girl has cruelly taken away part of her innocence now that I’ve had to explain about that lifestyle. It goes against what I believe as a Christian and was not something I wanted my daughter to be exposed to at this early age. I am very, very disappointed in Americans [sic] Girl and will not purchase their products in the future.”
The Yahoo Life article also said, “American Girl made a splash by releasing a doll with an LGBT storyline and plans for more racially-diverse characters. But some hardcore fans say they’re frustrated by the doll community’s resistance to inclusivity, claiming homophobia and racism brew in online forums.”
Some leftist fans actually fretted that Kira was not far-left enough. The co-creator of the American Girl Doll podcast, Allison Horrocks, took issue with the lesbian relationship being portrayed outside the U.S.:
“People have been right to point out that American Girl can take a complex story and set it somewhere else,” says Horrocks, adding that Kira, an environmentalist, could stay home in Michigan where the effects of the 2014 Flint water crisis linger, or travel to the west coast which burned with wildfires in 2019. Likewise, the doll’s LGBT storyline took place overseas.”
“Kira is not the brand’s first dive into LGBT content,” Yahoo Life noted. A Smart Girl’s Guide to Boys, published in 2002, was updated in 2020 “to include same-sex relationships,” and is now titled A Smart Girl’s Guide: Crushes. As far back as 2005, American Girl partnered with Girls, Inc., a group that “advocates for LGBT-inclusive sex education” and “reproductive freedom,” a euphemism for abortion. In 2015, American Girl magazine profiled a girl adopted by two men.
And American Girl will once again promote homosexuality this February, when “American Girl will publish the book Pets, featuring a mixed-race family with two dads, following 2019’s Understanding Families about diverse family structures,” the Yahoo Life article added.
One parent reviewer on Amazon slammed the lesbian relationship in Kira as “nothing at all to do with the plot, if there is a plot, and everything to do with American Girl's political agenda.”
Kira “is disjointed and poorly written, with references to masks and the coronavirus seemingly added randomly after the book's completion,” the reviewer wrote. “The plot is adult driven, and the only adventure happens when the girls knowingly disobey a serious safety rule, near the end of the book. There are far too many characters and too many named animals. Kira's aunts are married lesbians, and that needs to be known by every adult who hands the book to a child or who allows a child to check it out from the library. That fact has nothing at all to do with the plot, if there is a plot, and everything to do with American Girl's political agenda. American Girl books have been hit or miss since Mattel took over the brand. This one is not only a huge miss but will potentially lead to another boycott by conservatives, something that the brand doesn't need, with falling doll sales.”
Ggrrrrr.
Really?
Is nothing sacred?
Is nothing sacred?
This type of stuff is how leftism has was the culture wars. It's the reason we now have a Chinese puppet in the White House and a marxist VP waiting to take his spot when he keels over.
While decent Americans were busy going to work and trying to provide a better life for their families leftists were busy taking over the educational system and social media. Everything that your children get their education and value system from is controlled by leftists, and it has been for the last thirty or more years. Now those brainwashed kids are grown up and voting, we're reaping what has been sown.
It happened right under our nose and we didn't stop it when we should have.
Sad but true.
What bothers me most is that the younger generations have a herd mentality. They do not think for themselves. And their parents are just as bad. They do not want to lose the “love” of their children, so they go right along with the aberrant thinking.
“It happened right under our nose and we didn’t stop it when we should have.”
This is the 100% truth. We screwed up. Big time. We were supposed to run for school board, etc. I didn’t do that. I’d say, oh I could never have done that, I was working, etc. But it sounds pretty flimsy right now.
But, I must also point out that those on our side, who were supposedly fighting the culture war for a living (Such as Rich Lowry, Mitt Romney, et al.) really failed us too.
No problem! But you must organize. If you have children in public school organize the good parents and March on your school board. You pay the taxes. If you want prayer in the schools, say so; demand it! Force it! One miserable atheist pulled prayer out of our nation’s schools because “it makes my little Jonny feel bad.” Well it’s payback time in America. Let’s honor God, the King of the Universe, in all we and our children do. If some miscreants don’t like that, give their kids ear plugs so they don’t have to hear the others exercising their God given liberty.
Ditto. Everything you just said.
Tragic. An entire generation of young girls is being brainwashed for lesbianism. Women’s soccer is another, perhaps even more significant, source of this propaganda. The ‘tweens who look up to the soccer players and follow them on social media know all about their lesbian “marriages,” rainbow flags, etc. etc.
One wonders if we all said aww screw it and claimed to be
homosexual, would these people just shut the hell up and go
away?
We don’t have to be, just say we are.
Let them have it their way.
Then what?
“Ya gotta go ta college” syndrome.
Idiots!
...doing WHAT to each other?
Regards,
I’m more pissed off at the climate change crap. That will effect us hugely by destroying the economy and put way of life. Electric cars, solar, wind, carbon offsets, tax per mile, forced guilt for eating meat like they did smoking and so many incredibly moronic actions to come. The young are on board. It’s so sad.
perversion. That is all that it is!
Just remember. The primary competition for a new children’s book isn’t other new children’s books. It’s every book ever written.
The gay mafia that controls the Republican Party (also called ‘Lincoln Project’) convinced Republican politicians that gay marriage, along with boys taking over girls’ sports, were ‘divisive issues’ and that Republican politicians needed to talk about the issues that unite the country, like Capital Gains Tax Cuts.
...that’s why this crap never stops.
Funny. Didn’t know old Lincoln himself was a same-sex “marriage” advocate.
You may want to read-up a bit on the Lincoln Project. It’s pretty obvious who they are and what they were up to.
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