From the link:“Girls Inc. states on its site that they are in favor of killing womb babies.”
Sure enough, on the Girl’s Inc website there’s a banner that says “KILLING WOMB BABIES SINCE 1973 (there’s more of them than we thought)”
Thank you, Mr. Wildmon. I thought American Girls was just some Hallmark-type merchendise crap.
I have a new respect for the company, and will buy their products in high preference to Barbie and Bratz for my cousins and nieces.
I was Molly. I had the braids, the clothes, the book bag, the pajamas – all of it. That was my life. And I’ve always wanted a Molly doll so that I could be nice to her. (I know that sounds corny and pitiful, but damned therapeutic!)
Now I have a good excuse to get one.
…Making out a strange Christmas list for a 62 year old woman…
I know the response I’d like to offer Don Wildmon, but I didn’t do Taco Bell for lunch. 
Oh…damn you! 
Hey Zoe, I had a B’day today, so I’m once again one up on ya! Pretty nice present too, 34-17 and alla that.
How much do those American Girl dolls cost? I’ve got some granddaughters that will need Christmas presents.
They’re about $80/doll, but that comes with a change of clothing, a third-grade or so reading level book about the doll, and some other stuff I don’t remember. The shopping sectin of the American Girls’ website seems to be done right now, otherwise I’d just link you to it. There are eight different dolls, and they all have stories from different points in American history. They’re all pretty spunky girls and way better role models than Barbie and her kind. The best part is, you can start with the one doll and you can add different clothing and accessory sets, most of which are under $80, if I remember right. You can also buy real-girl sized clothes that match the doll’s.
There’s also a magazine that I still pick up and read occasionally at the grocery store. Much preferable to Teen People or Seventeen or whatever else. Definitely better than Ranger Rick, at least, for the girly vibe. A neat thing they did in the magazine when I was really into it was making paper dolls of different readers’ female ancestors every month. You sent in the details of some of your ancestors (their names, where they lived, what their family did) and then they were made into paper dolls with period clothing and a little historical blurb. Sometimes they spanned centuries. Educational, shiny, pretty, about actual American girls. It was great.
I never had one, but, man, I still kinda want an American Girl doll. Kirsten or Addy or Samantha. Or Felicity. Hmm, all of them. That’s only a $640 starting price. A drug habit might be cheaper.
Thanks, Miss Purl. Sounds neat, and $80 is within what we’d spend on any one of them for their “big” present.
YEA! Shopping solved, and it’s not even Christmas Eve yet. Woot! 
I’m a conservative. However, for the point of what I’m about to say, I could just as easily be a liberal. It matters not.
IT’S A DOLL FERCHRISSAKES!!! A toy. I don’t care. I also don’t care about toy guns, toy lesbian wiccan poetesses, or toy anything else.
Obscure right wing nut job makes wild accusations about the hithertofore unknown political leanings/sexual proclivities of fictional characters, cartoon figures and charity organizations. See teletubbies, Sponge-Bob, Murphy Brown, and American Girl.
Obscure right wing nut job appeals for funds to fight the imaginary scurge, and gets the funds, despite the fact that in 200 years of this crap polluting the Republic, only Murphy Brown has ever fought back, the others being fictional characters for children. (Note, Murphy beats Dan Quayle, ending Quayle’s political career: further note: don’t lose to fictional characters).
It’s a scam. It was a scam when Joe McCarthy did it, it’s a scam today. Big Bird is not a communist, he is a puppet suit.
Note to right wing lemmings: keep donating money to stop the tele-tubbies and keep a preacher in Rolexes so that it doesn’t go to promoting fake wars. Rolexes are far less evil.
My family had a subscription to Wildmon’s newsletter when I was growing up.
Even when I was an eight-year-old, highly impressionable, pro-life, anti-homosexual, Bible-believing fundamentalist little girl…
I could still tell that he was a wingnut. I used to grab the newsletter out of the mail and scamper off to my room every month, because it was the craziest thing I’d ever seen. There was a whole section of television reviews which include statistics- number of naughty words, sex scenes, scenes of violence, disobedience to parents or authority…
Bob Loblaw, welcome. I see that you are a Guest, but I hope that you decide to become a Member.
Hell, I’d never even heard of American Girl dolls, but thanks to Mr. Wildmon, I now know what to get my two nieces for Christmas. Thanks!
I think his evil plan may have backfired.
Actually, it’s not just a doll. It’s a whole marketing… thing. Books, clothes, what have you, designed to promote a point of view as much as anything.
And it looks like a darn good point of view. One I can respect. One that Mr. Wildmon would rather die than see.
I’ve never quite understood how people can be so naive as to think children’s cartoons, books, and toys are too innocent to have any meaning, when they quite obviously do have meaning and influence on young minds. People don’t want to ban this or that children’s book because they are foolish. They quite legitimately perceive those books to be a threat to the moral agenda they want to prescribe for America. The American Girl collection does seem to be multicultural and feminist, which gives righty tighties good reason to hate and fear them.
“Womb Babies” is an even more hideous coinage than “Fur Babies.”
“Womb Babies.” Man. Shakespeare’s going to claw his way out of his grave so that he can cut his own throat.
Sounds kind of like a line of plush toys, doesn’t it?
Well now they’re coming out with friends of each character, that were featured in the books. (My sister still gets the catalog, it’s like porn for doll collectors). I’m partial to Samantha’s friend Nellie, she’s just so cute.
You can also buy doll dress patterns if you sew. My great aunt, the family seamstress, was originally going to make a communion dress for her only granddaughter, the cousin I mentioned above, but when they went to the shops to look for ideas, my cousin fell in love with one dress, and my aunt, unable to say no, bought it for her. So, she lost out on making her dress.
BUT…she found a pattern, and made a little matching communion dress for “Josefina”, complete with a matching circlet and veil, and little socks and everything. It was the cutest thing you ever saw.
You can also have a custom doll made-choosing from skin tones, eye and hair color, hair style, etc.
So I’d say it’s definitely worth the money you spend.
I had an American Girl doll (Samantha). I got her when I was 9. My mom said that I could get one of them for Christmas. This was just after they expanded from three (Kirsten, Samantha and Molly) to four (they added Felicity). The newness (and cool red hair) of Felicity was tempting but I agonized between Samantha and Molly.
I ended up getting Samantha but got the Molly books instead. 
I liked Samantha’s clothes a bit more than Molly’s. The doll was really expensive for us (it was my big Christmas present) but they really are well made.
I really think they could do two sets of books, though. The books they had were interesting stories but I was at that reading level in Kindergarten. I always wished they had a version that was written at a higher reading level. They definitely have good messages, though; they’re about strong girls who can hold their own when growing up with adversity (the Revolutionary War, the death of a mother, World War II, etc).
Just a correction: I guess I was 10 or so, since Felicity seems to have been released in 1992 (I was born in 82).