# Gwen: the doll you can leave on the porch and feed from the trashcan (very mild) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080 "2009-09-30T06:13:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/21 "2009-09-30T15:05:37Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Michaela- the autistic doll. Makes the other dolls uncomfortable, but the proceeds go to benefit American Girl doll executives. > > \ > > Any you’d recommend? And who wants to bet that this may even outsell the Rosie O’Donnell “friend of Barbie” doll from a few years back? I’d recomment a change of this doll’s name to Mackayla. _My_ Michaela is an honors student. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/22 "2009-09-30T15:06:46Z")
Jenn O’Cyde: the Holocaust Honey! choose your own number to have “tattooed” on her arm! Comes with vial of live lice (including feeding instructions: you and Jenn can itch together!). Sold separately: latrine full of human feces for Jenn to hide in when the Gestapo goes door to door. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/23 "2009-09-30T16:18:06Z")
A homeless doll? How can dolls be homeless? I’m not getting this. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/24 "2009-09-30T16:34:04Z")
Hey you commies, this is **American** Girls, so quit with yer inapporpriate foreign dolls that hate America. Maybe, y’all should purchase Patty Patriot doll, who loves America and wants to see Obama’s real birth certificate. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/25 "2009-09-30T16:34:35Z")
“Let’s stick to original Monopoly. The game’s crazy enough as it is. How can an _iron_ be a landlord?” –Marge Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/26 "2009-09-30T16:45:27Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > Frankly, I thought it was bad when they had the Depression-era doll, with the stories about how you don’t need money to have fun and how Kit (?) makes her own toys. Like the scooter she made from a discarded orange crate. And now that scooter can be yours for a mere $75. There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between the two messages being sent here, you know? This makes my head explode a little. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/27 "2009-09-30T16:46:36Z")
Pat, the intersexed lesbian doll! Sold separately: baseball bats, tire irons, and Steve, Josh, Andy, Rick, and Josph, the football team player dolls who can use the other accessories to beat her to death after they gang-rape her “to fix her.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/28 "2009-09-30T18:31:49Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Hey you commies, this is **American** Girls, so quit with yer inapporpriate foreign dolls that hate America. Maybe, y’all should purchase Patty Patriot doll, who loves America and wants to see Obama’s real birth certificate. Which, interestingly enough, lists his birthplace as [Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland Georgia](http://www.cabbagepatchkids.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/29 "2009-09-30T18:35:28Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I don’t get why there has to be a feel good charitable cause. I mean, when they sold Addy, the escaped former slave, it wasn’t like they were giving money to the NAACP. My niece owned Addy but she disappeared. We plastered fliers with her pictures saying “DISAPPEARED FROM THE ANDALUSIA FARM, REWARD IF FOUND!” but she was never turned in. As for Gwen- I think outrage is an overstatement; it’s just an appreciation of irony. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/30 "2009-09-30T18:40:16Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > My niece owned Addy but she disappeared. We plastered fliers with her pictures saying “DISAPPEARED FROM THE ANDALUSIA FARM, REWARD IF FOUND!” but she was never turned in. > > As for Gwen- I think outrage is an overstatement; it’s just an appreciation of irony. That I can live with. Twenty dollars to style ANY doll’s hair is ridic, considering it’s only about eight dollars cheaper (minus the tip I pay at my salon) than I pay to get my own hair. Homeless or not, that’s insane. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/31 "2009-09-30T19:05:36Z")
Please don’t let this make “Gwen” a more popular name Please don’t let this make “Gwen” a more popular name Please don’t let this make “Gwen” a more popular name Please don’t let this make “Gwen” a more popular name Please don’t let this make “Gwen” a more popular name I live in fear of hordes of Gwens…! It happened to my brother’s name, it could happen to mine too. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/32 "2009-10-01T05:36:31Z")
How about a Samantha Geimer doll? “No, no. I don’t want to go in there. No, I don’t want to do this. No!” “I just want to put this all behind me.” “He did something really gross to me, but it was the media that ruined my life.” “I don’t really have any hard feelings toward him, or any sympathy, either. He is a stranger to me.” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/33 "2009-10-01T05:44:24Z")
Amy Amy is from Long Island New York and is really interested in playing with your uncle Joey. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/34 "2009-10-01T15:26:45Z")
I’m dissappointed they haven’t come out with any accessories for Gwen yet. Like a rusty shopping cart, a cardboard box for sleeping, ragged & filthy winter coat, etc. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/35 "2009-10-01T16:22:50Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > That I can live with. Twenty dollars to style ANY doll’s hair is ridic, considering it’s only about eight dollars cheaper (minus the tip I pay at my salon) than I pay to get my own hair. Homeless or not, that’s insane. Ah, but they won’t style just _any_ doll’s hair…it has to be an official American Girls doll. I think there’s a pit thread here where a mother took her daughter to a friend’s birthday party at one of these places, and the poor kid was the only one there whose doll wasn’t an American Girls doll… ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/36 "2009-10-01T16:28:04Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Please don’t let this make “Gwen” a more popular name. I live in fear of hordes of Gwens…! It happened to my brother’s name, it could happen to mine too. :eek: Your brother’s name is Gwen? ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/37 "2009-10-01T16:30:56Z")
I was going to suggest smack addicted American Girl, but Bert [had the idea first](http://www.bertisevil.tv/pages/bert006.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/38 "2009-10-01T16:55:29Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Ah, but they won’t style just _any_ doll’s hair…it has to be an official American Girls doll. I think there’s a pit thread here where a mother took her daughter to a friend’s birthday party at one of these places, and the poor kid was the only one there whose doll wasn’t an American Girls doll… Oh yeah. I think I remember that. It was…scary. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/39 "2009-10-01T17:42:57Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Please don’t let this make “Gwen” a more popular name I suspect the odds of people naming their child after a homeless person are slim. I suspect the odds of somebody naming their child after a homeless non-person are slimmer still. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080/40 "2009-10-01T18:44:04Z")
Any exposure to the name is dangerous! > [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > Your brother’s name is Gwen? It’s Justin, and that may seem really common now, but when we were kids it was very rare. Fifteen years later it was very bizarre to have every other toddler named Justin! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gwen-the-doll-you-can-leave-on-the-porch-and-feed-from-the-trashcan-very-mild/512080.md?page=3)