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Mattel’s American Girl takes on a “Social Message”
September 25, 2009 in Campaign 2008, Campaign 2012, Capitalism, Economy, Family values, Politics, socialism, Uncategorized | Tags: American Girl, Barack Obama, Gwen Thompson, homelessness, Mattel | 1 comment
From the New York Post:
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.
