Posted on 10/16/2005 6:18:45 AM PDT by Salvation
No they're not.. just keep them away from The Limited and Abercrombie and Fitch (Aeropostale and American Eagle are iffy sometimes, but ok for the most part...)... definitely don't take them to the GAP, that is short for "gay and proud."
Did you get that?
"a woman’s freedom of choice, a constitutional right established by the US. Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe vs. Wade."
Now, I'm not sure but I think they just said the Supreme Court, in 1973, somehow conjured up a new a constitutional right out of thin air. The left is ever so clever...
I remember my older sister having a Shirley Temple doll that she took very good care of. I was the kid who operated on her dolls! The only collection I ever got, and believe I have kicked myself for not having the foresight as a 6 y.o. to hold on to this collection for the big bucks I'd now have,(just kidding), was the original Barbie doll. The doll, a complete set of clothes and available accessories was purchased for me that Christmas by my father's co-workers because my mother was close to death from cancer. If memory serves, Barbie is a Mattel toy and now the American Girl Dolls are as well? How sad. I wonder what we would have thought had we known back in 1959 just how much our culture was going to abandoned life.
They couldn't have a "Welfare Queen Barbie". Barbie is from California. I believe my sister meant that Barbie's excessive materialism is a drain on society, as it encourages girls to focus on shopping and clothes rather than meaningful work.
My parents were still in school at the time, but I suspect that some parts of the culture had already abandoned life at that point.
When I was little, we had the original Playschool stuff, complete with wooden, not plastic figurines. Too bad we played with it.
Possibly, but I gave to another agency.
Well, we had dolls. And a dress up box and a playhouse that my dad built. My brothers had Tonka, Lego and things they threw out of second story windows with parachutes.
The teachers (not all nuns) told us we could be whatever we wanted to be and all I wanted to be then - and now - is a mother. Opera comes a close second.
Thanks for the link. We have three Bitty Babies in our house. Two were gifts, and they were purchased before Mattel bought the company. Our oldest girls never played with dolls much. They read. A lot. Our middle daughter likes dolls, but she would rather play outside with her friends. Our #7 child loves dolls. She loves to play make-believe. She mothers every stuffed animal and every doll we have. All the dolls we bought for the oldest three girls have finally been put to use. And it is so sweet to watch her. I can't tell what our youngest will like.
Our oldest daughter loved the Elsie Dinsmore books we found years ago. Even when she had sort of outgrown the books, she begged me to buy her more for Christmas one year. I wish there were more good, wholesome books for tweens and teens.
Usually the younger children have to be the Yanks. Can't fight a war with just one side!
My girls just don't play with dolls much. They nuture the stuffed animals, instead. 5-foot snakes are very cuddly, I guess :-).
We haven't purchased any stuffed snakes, but I have no doubt that our #7 would find a way to fit one into her "world." lol She is a delightful child.
Patrick shapes them into letters and numbers on the kitchen floor. Who needs school supplies, when you have snakes?
My sisters had plenty of dolls and they enjoyed playing with them -- and together we played ice hockey, rode bicycles and played astronauts with my Sears Planetarium; and my youngest sister formed her troll collection into the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with hand made gowns and tuxedos. We also gave the trolls rides in the Major Matt Mason Lunar Walker, which, if you reverse the batteries, will walk backwards.
We all became mothers and reared well balanced children and none of us cheer for the Pink Power Ranger who we consider a sissy.
Sent to:
Mattel Chairman Bob Eckert - Jules.Andres@mattel.com
American Girl President Ellen Brothers - ellen.brothers@americangirl.com
Public Relations Susan Jevens - susan.jevens@americangirl.com
Subject Line: Girls Inc. support and ultimate loss of business
Dear Mr. or Mz xxx,
How did your company make such a gross business miscalculation? I’m sure you’ll stand your ground and make public statements to the effect it has not had a negative impact on your business. But it will. You know it will take some time to show up in your bottom line.
Actually I’d like to thank you for your side by side stand with Girls Inc. It has allowed me to reopen a dialogue with my three daughters. Each daughter has several of your dolls.
They have all three decided to ceremoniously throw them away. Not sell, them … not give them away … but to destroy them.
Here are the demographics.
Daughter #1 – Honor student (freshman) at xxx University studying to be an elementary teacher.
Daughter #2 – National Merit Scholar and a senior in High School. Being courted by Ivy League Universities.
Daughter #3 – Freshman in high school and right on their heels academically.
They all three find your monetary and public support of abortion and lesbian sexual orientation as unacceptable. They feel you are now directly responsible for great harm to females in general.
Enough said. Look for your products in trash cans throughout the United States and elsewhere. What an INCREDIBLE blunder on your part. Whoever made this marketing decision needs to be canned. Your company will suffer because of it.
My name
My City, My State
Bump
Great letter. Everyone, however, has to compose their own.
It's a zoo around here. Some days the snakes are in charge, some days the penguins are. Is it five o'clock somewhere yet?
Attention NY Area Freepers and all of you who want to come
FYI, American Girl Protest Saturday, Dec. 10th in Manhattan, 10-12 noon, Signs will be provided.
Location: 49th and 5th Avenue (right down from Rockefeller Center
Also a great opportunity to see the Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral and the window displays.
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