What I want to know is, why isn’t there a second set of dolls for boys? I mean, I understand the positive messages that the girls’ dolls give, but why can’t boys learn positive messages (and get interested in American history) too?
Robin
Because we don’t want them to be sissies. Duh.
If they did, my son would have one. I don’t know how much he’d actually play with the doll itself (probably not at all), but all the stuff that came with it would be great.
Just think of the merchadising…Davey Crocket style coon-skin caps, pop-guns, bow and arrows, wholesome books about young boys who become young men. Sounds good to me.
Boys don’t want dolls.
Thank you. I’m thinking about it, but I lost my email account password. I’ve gotta remember that first.
We want ACTION FIGURES!!! John Rambo: American Boy.
You know what? I have absolutely no use for dolls at all. I am a heterosexual adult male. But I think I’ll buy a doll just to help support this company and to counteract the effects of a conservative boycott.
Fine, so they can make a line of action-figure type dolls for boys. Spin off a line of books about boys from different periods, and maybe market related toys.
It’s a license to print money!
Robin
Good man. There will be a plethora of Xmas Toys for Tots groups ready to relieve you of your dolly burden very soon.
True, but my parents wouldn’t buy me an $80 action figure just so I could blow his head off with a firecracker two weeks later. 
Totally. With a Saturday cartoon tie-in. “Don’t touch that dial, kids! Watch ‘Womb Babies’ in their fight against the Evil Dr. Aborto and his American Girl Asstants, Mollie & Kit!”
We certainly do. Meet Evil Captor’s official Keyboard Cheerleading Squad!
They’d have to be boys from different periods who brutally and efficiently obliterate scores of bad guys, while tossing off a witty quip or two.
Donate the doll to Toys for Tots. So you’ll be pissing off the Wildmon types AND making a little girl smile on Christmas morning! You’re two for two.
“Womb-babies.” Technically, isn’t every baby a “womb baby?”
Here’s the AG website. Like I said-doll collector porn.
Years ago, Wildmon had a column in the now-defunct publication, Conservative Digest. I used to read every issue of the magazine just for Wildmon’s article because it almost always featured that ignorant sanctimonious nimrod going off his nut about some TV show he found “morally objectionable” and then adding the show’s sponsors to his ever-growing boycott list. I remember a review of “Cheers” in which he cited the show for using the term “hallelujah” in a less-then-reverent matter (I think it was Norm’s response to getting a beer) and then declared that since the program’s sponsors obviously didn’t want the business of “good Christians,” they must not buy anything from them. High comedy.
If you’re serious, am I correct in assuming you’re also not sympathetic to Rev. Wildmon’s religious and political views? If so, that must put you on the horns of a dilemma. On one hand, you are boycotting the AG dolls for their alleged “waspy aesthetic” but, on the other hand, so is Rev. Wildmon for reasons you likely find repugnant. You hate the dolls but, by refusing to buy them, you are inadvertently aiding Wildmon’s right-wing wack job cause. Yet, if you buy the dolls to piss off Wildmon and his followers, you are aiding the “waspy aesthetic” you despise.
Good plan.
You can also go to Bath and Body Works and buy the bracelet if you don’t want to buy the doll. They cost a dollar and 70 cents of that goes to Girls inc. You could get 80 of them and really piss off Wildmon.
Donald Wildmon, which one is he? These guys tend to run together in my mind.
You could get 80 of them and mail them to him!